Radiant Vermin
by Philip Ridley
-Hello, I’m Jill.
-And I’m Ollie.
-This is our son Benjy.
-We’d like to tell you about our home.
-Our dream home.
-That’s right.
-How we got it.
-Exactly. Because . . . well . . .
-We’re good people.
Radiant Vermin by Philip Ridley is a dark and sharp satire. A surreal, black comedy that explores the lengths a young couple will go to in order to secure the home of their dreams during the housing crisis. Seizing the extraordinary opportunity presented to them, they embark on a nightmarish journey that highlights the consequences of materialism, gentrification, the homelessness phenomenon, greed, and the obsession with social status. Awkward, funny, and provocative, Ridley’s play serves as a powerful critique of consumer culture and the moral sacrifices we make to satisfy our insatiable needs.
Duration: 100 minutes, no intermission
Against Progress – A Field of Memory
Dulcinea Compania presents Against Progress – A Field of Memory by Esteve Soler, translated by Maria Chatzimmanouil and adapted by Ioanna Kanellopoulou and Anna-Maria Iakovou.
In a world where information floods every corner and time rushes forward, a groundbreaking program, Exhalation, revives the memories of a woman’s final days.
With shades of pop and sci-fi aesthetics, a universe unfolds—paradoxical yet eerily familiar—where humans drift between loss, longing, and the quiet hum of technology.
Ionesco once wrote: “It is not easy at all to be nowhere.”
The performance is suitable for audiences aged 16 and above.
Duration: 73 minutes
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT – FILMING
The time has come! Panagiotis Koudas wraps up his 4th solo show, “It’s Not What You Expect,” with one final performance that will be recorded!
For over an hour in recent years, he has been trying to tell a story—but he hasn’t quite managed it yet. Maybe this last chance will be the one. Things are never what we expect, and neither will this show be—unless the only thing you expected was for it to be funny. And that he has gained weight since the last time you saw him.
A journey through self-awareness, aging, children, human curiosity, ancient Crete, intercity buses, GPS systems, units of measurement, relationships, and his kitchen.
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense—don’t worry, it probably won’t make sense there either.
Recommended age: 16+
Due to the filming conditions, please arrive no later than 21:15. Entry will not be allowed after the show begins.
YPERALFEIA WORKSHOP
We create wreaths with fresh flowers—colorful seasonal blooms arranged in foam wreaths—to welcome spring!
Participation cost: €50
Banda Calda || CELEBRATION WITH BRASS INSTRUMENTS
At PLYFA, the musical valley of Banda Calda will flow on March 15, taking us on a journey through sound, from Pentalofos in Kozani to Pozar in Almopia. Since 2022, Banda Calda has embraced a constant challenge: bringing the distinct timbre of northwestern Greece into the urban landscape—into squares and parks, interwar taverns and museums, and now into the craft ecosystem of PLYFA. A place where, once upon a time, some of the workers might have quietly hummed songs from their homelands—the same songs that we, too, will sing.
Joining them as a guest vocalist: Michalis Michopoulos.
The venue will have a bar serving drinks, refreshments, and food.
Organization and production execution: Cirkelin – Peggy Tsolakaki.
SOLACE POP UP & EXHIBITION
An event to showcase independent design in Greece. Curated fashion design pop up / exhibition.
Come find your favourite designers or explore new ones.
POLYXENI KARAKOGLOU LIVE
On the occasion of the release of her new single, titled “Tou Kosmou i Rota”, singer-songwriter Polyxeni Karakoglou is embarking on an acoustic tour across Greece, accompanied by two wonderful fellow travelers, starting from PLYFA.
Temporarily setting aside her signature electronic sound, she experiments with the dynamics of natural instruments and the unplugged aesthetic, opening a musical dialogue that includes songs from her previous albums, her upcoming release in October, and many more.
Polyxeni seeks to explore the vast universe of “woman”, which is also the central theme of her forthcoming album “Yposchesi” (Promise). This album was recognized and funded by the “ERATO” organization as part of a competition held in 2024.
DIPTYCH
DIPTYCH, the new project by Konstantinos Papasotiropoulos in collaboration with Eleftheria Agapaki, is presented for six days at the Foyer of PLYFA. Stefanos Vlachos, in the theater’s antechamber, performs a solo piece consisting of OKU NO HOSOMICHI and ARCHEION, presented in succession, capturing the work of the walking man.
A. OKU NO HOSOMICHI (September 2024, Ballas, 30’)
I am walking
I am walking
I am walking
I am walking
I am walking
A rectangular metal sheet surface laid with fine charcoal / a hole before the world / dislocated from the effort of observation / I receive the world / I walk / white light / the walking man sees with his fingers
B. ARCHEION (October 2023, Athens, 20’)
An imaginary cylindrical collage of snapshots from the lives of people who separated from themselves out of love / a man dances at its center / orange light / within the hole I am signified / perhaps the air / in the trace, the entire journey is stored / vertical arrangement of the body
Notes:
OKU NO HOSOMICHI is a stage adaptation of the eponymous travel diary by the classical Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694). This text follows the journey of Bashō and his student from present-day Tokyo to the northern provinces of Japan. In OKU NO HOSOMICHI, the journey of man through the world is captured. ARCHEION constructs a textual body with excerpts from the Synaxarion of Saint Nikodemos (1749–1809). At the center of a hole in his path, man connects with the body of the multitude of Saints.
DIPTYCH is an independent production of HËW.
MARSHES / CEMETERY
Giorgos Seferis partially translates the allegorical farces of the French Nobel laureate André Gide, Marshes and Prometheus Unbound, leaving them unpublished in his manuscripts. These texts provide the material for a performance that explores the clash between two worlds: the world of literature and the world of bestial labor, set within the fairy-tale universe of Little Red Riding Hood. The animals are trained to fear themselves and to sympathize with the humans who oppress them—a vicious cycle that awaits disruption by a Prometheus who is always on his way.
“We must try to bring a little variety to our existence.”
In a bourgeois Parisian salon, four writers meet again and again to discuss the writing of a book. While they prattle, a pack of animals labors ceaselessly to serve them. When these animals knock at their door—just as the wolf knocks at the grandmother’s—the salon is shaken. Trapped on opposite sides of the wall, humans and animals alike await a revolutionary act to liberate them from themselves. Among the writers arrives Prometheus, the mythical figure who has just been freed from the Caucasus, and the vicious cycle is broken. Who will survive this emancipation? Whose eulogy does Prometheus ultimately deliver?
“Why are we so obedient? Why are we so incapable of recognizing our enemy?”
Following the productions oRt I. A Man Can Break and Sacred Agony: On the Loom of Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the theatre company Protasi brings to the stage for the first time the political allegorical farces of André Gide, Marshes and Prometheus Unbound, through the incomplete and unpublished manuscript translations of Giorgos Seferis. An excerpt from the performance was distinguished in the 24 Hours Rush Project competition, organized by Mikri Academia (September 2024).
Director’s Note
Trapped in their literary salons, André Gide’s characters survive thanks to the toil of the animals in their garden. Their incomplete attempt at writing and the animals’ incomplete attempt at self-liberation mirror Seferis’ own translation—its errors, omissions, and poetic choices are transposed into the actors’ choreography. The act of translation itself unfolds on stage. The refined poetry of fin de siècle literature creates a suffocating necropolis where the animals tend to their own graves. A political allegorical farce about a city that ensnares its inhabitants in unfinished ideas and unfinished lives, forcing them to serve others and to place their hopes solely in the arrival of a messiah who is always coming.
Under the auspices of the Institut Français.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Carnival Milonga & Show
Tango Acropolis invites you to a special milonga in Keramikos, where the audience becomes the star of the scene!
For one night only, you will have the chance to dance on the stage of the amphitheater-style hall at Plyfa.
Dress in your most dazzling tango outfits and costumes and turn the night into your own performance at this festive carnival milonga.
At midnight, enjoy a unique surprise show by the exceptional and stylish duo, Nefeli Koumarianou & Nikos Papadimitriou.
On the music console: Vasilis Notis.
