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SOMEONE WHO ISN’T ME

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Someone Who Isn’t Me will present their new album “Heartbreaker” live on Saturday 05 October at PLYFA!

 The second full-length album of the electro-pop duo S.W.I.M. offers us an electrified magical journey, a rollercoaster of emotions with their new creation! From the melodic yet haunting melodies of the title track “Heartbreaker” to the frenzied energy of the bagpipe solo on “All Gone”, each song immerses listeners in a synth-pop dream universe filled with raw emotion and undeniable energy.

Dark wave sounds with dance aesthetics, as we loved, that is, from Someone Who Isn’t Me!
Book your ticket and come to explore together Live the complexity of love, loss, hope and friendship, embrace and dance TOGETHER on Saturday 05/10!

Opening warm-up acts are the explosive VoxPopuli and the enchanting VAL, while special guest on stage is the beloved MJW!

Doors: 20:00 / Start: 21:00

WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?

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Join Solomon on Monday, September 16, 2024, at 7:30 PM at PLYFA (39 Koritsas Street, Athens 104 47) for the launch of our new investigative project, “Who Owns the Media?”

(“Σε ποιον ανήκουν τα ΜΜΕ”).

Hear from journalists Danae Maragoudaki, Iliana Papangeli, Corina Petridi and Eliza Triantafyllou, as well as Electra Alexandropolou, project manager in Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Office in Greece, as they discuss the findings of the investigation.

The event will be hosted by stand-up comedians Vyronas Theodoropoulos and Chrysa Katsarini.

We hope to see you there!

ΣΠΑΡΑΓΜΟΣ

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Σπαραγμός

μια αφήγηση για…

Τον αφανισμό

Τον σπαραγμό

Το πένθος

Την πίστη

Για εσένα

Που έφυγες

Και για σένα

Που ήρθες

Για το χαρτί που σκίζεται

Για όλη την οικογένεια

Για το βραδάκι στις 21.00

Για την αυλή στο ΠΛΥΦΑ

Για το σύγχρονο θέατρο

(Για την σύγχρονη τέχνη)

Και για τον σύγχρονο άνθρωπο

Για το Καλοκαιράκι που πέρασε

Για την Αθήνα μας

Για τον πολιτισμό

Και για την Ελλάδα ολόκληρη

‘’Θάνατος στον χειμώνα

Θάνατος στον θάνατο‘’

 

Με αφορμή τις Βάκχες του Ευριπίδη και τον Σπαραγμό της Μαργαρίτας Λυμπεράκη, πέντε επι σκηνής πρόσωπα θα επιχειρήσουν να συντηρήσουν έναν κόσμο φτιαγμένο από χαρτί. Η παράσταση θα προσπαθήσει να αφηγηθεί την ιστορία του μυθικού βασιλιά Πενθέα ή αλλιώς εκείνου που εμείς ονομάζουμε – “ο άνθρωπος των θλίψεων’’.

ANDROMACHE

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The princess of Troy and widow of the mythical Hector arrives in Greece uprooted, after the end of the Trojan War and the annihilation of her loved ones. She follows Achilles’ son Pyrrhus as his captive and mistress. After the murder of Pyrrhus by Orestes, Andromache surrenders to his brother Hector, to finally take refuge in Epirus, the only “inhabitant” of an artificial Trojan landscape.

A modern female monologue of realization, about the fate of the refugee and the agony of finding a new identity. “How can you forget?” Andromache as a rebel against oblivion, will communicate the heartbreaks from the depths of time through the universal language, art.

I AM THE LABYRINTH

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Experience the Myth. Through an experience crafted by DarkPlay Theatre.
:|: Farewell, Cretans, and you, my homeland, sweet land of Zeus, sun-drenched…” Euripides (The Cretans)

An immersive, bilingual journey in Greek, English, and Ancient Greek.
Inspired by the Minotaur and the Labyrinth.
Love, power, and myth collide in this reimagined ancient tale.

The Performance


Brutal conflicts, forbidden love, and the struggle for power play out in a shocking, risk-taking, and sprawling meditation on the classic mythos.
A story drawn from fragments of Euripides, Ovid, Pindar, the true and mythical history of Crete, and the cultural legacy of the maze and the monster.
Every art form and archetype is here: live theatre, dance, and multimedia performed in English, Greek, and Ancient Greek.
Profound and provocative stories you thought you knew, re-imagined and told through ritual, sensation, and transformation.
Enter a sensual, violent, unpredictable world unlike anything you will find on stages or screens.

What You Need to Know:


Age 18+ Only: This show is intense. Darkness, loud music, bright lights, and direct interaction with actors. Youll be on your feet, moving, and maybe even wearing a mask.
You Are Part of the Performance: From the moment you step into the space, youre in the story.
No Phones, No Recording: Leave your devices behind. This is a world you cant capture—only live.


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GENESIS Νο 2

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ETÚTI Theater Group
Genesis No. 2
by Ivan Viripaev
Directed by: Kali Voikli
2nd YEAR OF PERFORMANCES

After the first cycle of sold out shows, Genesis No. 2 by Ivan Viripaev from
ETÚTI Theater Group directed by Kalis Voiklis returns to PLYFA for
limited number of performances.
Genesis No. 2 by Ivan Viripaev is a “tragedy of meaning” that manages to
combines humor and realism, with deep questions about meaning and existence.
It talks about freedom and imposition, loneliness and connection between people.
He talks about God and with God, who is one of the characters of the work.
“If you believe in God, this does not mean that God also believes in you”

However, it is about a humanized, revolutionary God, who declares defiantly
that it does not exist, forcing man to look for what might exist beyond him.
Is there anything else?
“In everything that exists around us, there is something else, something other than what we see”

Through the text, worlds and characters, current and eternal, are born that have the
flexibility to transform through the eyes of the viewers. This is how they surface
thoughts and feelings that we all have, but perhaps don’t know how to transform
in words.

The polyphony of the text is also reflected in the direction that tries a
innovative approach to the project. Five actors alternate in his roles
play, changing characters in each performance, spontaneously, without existing
pre-agreement on what role each person will take in each scene. So, through
this game of self-determination, each performance will be different, unpredictable and
truly “alive”.
The ETÚTI Theater Group, directed by Kali Voikli and with original music
composed by Viki Kapetanopoulou, they create an alternative performance, where the
Viripaev’s text emerges as the “main person of the work”.

*The show is suitable for people over 16 years old
**Strobe light is used in the performance

 

 

OUTRO

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Giota Festa meets Giorgos Karamichos at Konstantinou’s “OUTRO”.
Vasilakopoulou | From 5/10 at PLYFA

Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos returns to Greece with the first complete
his work, “OUTRO”. Graduate of the pioneering Academy of Theater and Dance
of Amsterdam, with an apprenticeship with Ivo van Hove and great collaborations in
his asset creates a project about family relationships, diversity, the
hard and intimate truths that kneel under the weight of social “acceptance”
and homogeneity.
“OUTRO” is based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play, “Juste la fin du
Monde”, which was later made into a movie (in Greek: “Just the End of the World”)
by Xavier Dolan and won several awards.

OUTRO

Directed by: Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos
In the role of the mother, Iota Festa
Loukas, George Karamichos
Premiere: October 5
In PLYFA

PLOT

I risk without hope.
Nevertheless I decided to go back to see them, to go back to the old days, to march
in my footsteps and make my journey.

Lukas, a writer, returns after many years to his hometown, in one
village in the Greek countryside. He wants to make up for lost time, lost opportunities,
to find the courage to face himself against his family. To
defend his choices, his wants, his identity.
Will fertile ground be created for him to find the redemption he seeks?
“OUTRO” by Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos takes a brave plunge into
dysfunctional family environment. Where the traditional are demystified
gatherings around the same table and the truths with which are revealed
all members fight.

It invites us to reflect: How cruel can we be to others, when
haven’t we done any work on ourselves? And, after all, what is worth in this life? Which ones
priorities? What should we sacrifice and on which altar? They could all were they becoming “otherwise”? And how far we are – individually, but also as a society – from this
“otherwise”?

Director’s note
What role does the artist’s return to the environment that expelled him play? He turns with her
hope that things have changed? He has missed the warmth of his family or
is he just confirming that he is well gone?
Those who have grown up in a closed Greek provincial town, know well what it means to
you dream of escaping from the environment in which you live. An environment like no other
limit of tolerance to diversity, which tries to suppress any natural you
tendency and to put on your ancestral seals and the barriers that dominate
from the guilt of pleasure and set the bar high for social acceptance and
homogeneity.

In “OUTRO” I wanted to create an environment in which the audience could feel
participant. The viewer should reflect on how we have structured our society
reality, not necessarily to embrace the views expressed.

Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos

Basted on “Juste la fin du monde”
του Jean – Luc Lagarce

TRI 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

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Can you believe it?  It’s 10 years since we opened our doors in Psiri Athens and we want to invite all to celebrate our big anniversary in an absolute gorgeous place PLYFA
Let’s raise a toast to the next 10 years and beyond!
Time flies by when we’re well surrounded by a great community and we are lucky to have you. 
Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do, for us!!!
You’ve helped make the TRI family what it is today.
Cheers to all of you friends!
Booze by Jameson Greece
Beers by Blame the Sun Brewing
Food by Kerveros tis Fotias
Live bands
Ta Toy Boy
The Callas
DJ set
Dim Goneos – Celestial Herring & Dim Hatzimitros
Plus 10 years TRI Photo Exchibition
Amazing Artwork by Bob Studio

NEFELI FASOULI LIVE

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For this summer, Nefeli Fasouli invites friends and people who are all her own for a party in her garden. The magical place that she cared for all winter, has now blossomed, grown, thickened and is waiting for everyone to find themselves under the stars. With songs by Phoebus, new ones by Antonis, some classics, some not so much, lanterns and iced drinks we will bring the coolness for the summer that doesn’t say it will come.
She wore flowers, colored eyeliner and mosquito repellent.
We are waiting for you!

SMINOS

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC, EDUCATIVE, EMPIRE, NOMAD, LAZY, COOPERATIVE, POLITICAL

IN SMINOURGIA PARTICIPATES THE COLLABORATIVES: SYNALOLIS, BIOME ATHINAS, MELANTHO, DOCK,
OBSCURA LAB, AS WELL AS THE COLLECTIVENESS EDUCATIONAL GROUP “THE SKASSIARCHIO”

BOOKS, DISCUSSIONS, MUSIC, PICTURES, SCREENINGS, CHILDREN’S AREA, FOOD, DRINK

[And while capitalism tries to convince us that there is no alternative, that the future is bleak and let us accept it, books are the ray of light that leads us into the thick darkness and cooperation is our way to preserve our humanity and to change the world.]

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
SMALL ROOM

17.30-19.00 || State control and surveillance in the 19th century. Introductions by the historian Xenia Marinou and dr. friend
of Thanasis Lagio. Historian Manolis Arkolakis coordinates and intervenes.

19.00-19.15 || Break time

19.15-20.45 || 7 years of #metoo and feminist solidarity. We talk to Georgia Petrakis, professor at Panteio Pa-
university and we watch short films by Alexia Tsounis (FemArtAct KOINSEP)

BIG ROOM
18.00-19.30 || School cooperation and collaborative techniques with Freinet pedagogy. Open discussion by the members of the Pedagogical Group “To Skasiarcheo”.

19.30-19.45 || Break time
19.45-21.15 || Communism and regime security: the construction of the internal enemy in the Greek 20th century.
Historians Kostis Karpozilos and Menelaos Charalambidis discuss, moderated by historian Stratis
Burnazo.
EXTERIOR SCENE
21.30-00.00 || CONCERTS. Dear Lou! in a tribute to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and Daddy’s Work Blues

Band in an electric blues session.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8 (MORNING)
SMALL ROOM

13.30-15.00 || Work Self-Management as a Movement: Weaknesses and Prospects Through Review of the Last Decade. The research collective Perfigurativa is introduced and discussed with the audience.

BIG ROOM
12.00-13.00 || Food preservation laboratory from Melantho COINSEP.
13.00-13.15 || Break time
13.15-14.45 || Make your own bookmark. Printmaking workshop by @the greyfox_linoprints.

YARD
14.30-17.00 || Collective Industrial Picnic. We eat, drink and chat together.
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8 (AFTERNOON)
SMALL ROOM
17.30-19.00 || Visible and Invisible Straps: Surveillance, Control and Enforcement Inside and Outside Asylum Walls. Recommendations
by Vasia Lekka (current professor TEAPI-EKPA), Thodoros Megaloikonomou (psychiatrist), Giorgos Kesisoglou
(psychologist). Psychiatrist Lykourgos Karatzaferis coordinates and intervenes.

19.00-19.15 || Break time
19.15-20.50 || Projection. Parole de flic. Film with Alain Delon, written by Frédéric Fazardi.
BIG ROOM

18.00-19.30 || Sportswear, mental trauma and traitors to our class. D. Hunter, author of the book Chav / Solidarity from the Underground, talks about his new book, which is released for the first time during the festival.

19.30-19.45 || Break time

19.45-21.15 || The omnipotent (?) state: Surveillance, control and enforcement in the digital age. Lawyers Annie Paparrousou and Thanasis Kabayiannis together with Panos Lambrou investigate aspects of unfreedom nowadays. It is moderated by the journalist Tasos Tsakiroglou (Editors’ Newspaper).

EXTERIOR SCENE
21.30-00.00 || CONCERTS with Alexis Kalofolia and Stefanos Flotsios and Frank Panx and Saltadoroia to close the festival in the best way!

AND OF COURSE throughout the duration of the festival, the following will operate in the area: XeFRENo Smenos: Pedagogical activities by the Pedagogical Group “To Skasiarcheo” (with an open-air library, visual art, construction, typography, poetry workshops, children’s radio and film screenings of student
films from the “Neaniko Plano”!) – Bookstore – Stalls with products from collaborative ventures – Art exhibitions – Bar and restaurant.