A caustic comedy for sturdy stomachs, it involves Epikentro+ on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 Could (21.00). On the helm of the course we discover the paternal Petra Mavridis, whereas Christos Christou is the chef on stage. The 2 of them collectively provide us “Papaya mandoles”, the award-winning black comedy by Antonis Krysilas, which tells the story of an completed chef from absolute glory to a jail cell.
It’s a story given with caustic humor, which composes a culinary canvas from utterly heterogeneous components!
Right now, Petra Mavridis and Christos Christou communicate at pelop.gr, in regards to the flavors they serve us, right this moment’s society, heroes and rather more.
Petra Mavridis: “It doesn’t imply that social requirements are additionally the requirements of every particular person”
We’ve got a chef, we prepare dinner. What are good supplies for a present?
Actually directness, honesty and never making an attempt to impose on the opposite particular person what they need to assume. To current the story and inform it as greatest you may, with out eager to affect the viewer, however to not be “picket” both. It shouldn’t be one thing didactic.
The present additionally refers back to the dangerous texts of the time. What components will we reside in right this moment and what do they style like? Are they bitter, bitter, does it have slightly sweetness in it?
It is a tough time. After the disaster, it isn’t a simple interval. However alternatively, there may be at all times sweetness, pleasure and good moments in each problem. In fact we’re speaking a few time when we’ve wars in Ukraine and Gaza, one understands that society shouldn’t be essentially transferring ahead. There are various dangerous texts however there are additionally good ones, perhaps much less. However allow us to hope, we can not reside in distress. Let there be good instances too!
In case you needed to give me 2 classes: the great and the dangerous of the time we reside in, what would they be?
Now there are a lot of monetary difficulties, there isn’t a longer that consolation that used to exist. However on the identical time there may be additionally a “discarding” and we are actually pressured to a place. There may be this compulsion for which you must take a stand, have a political opinion and on the identical time make a clean-up in your private life as effectively. Whenever you’re struggling you must select, even in relation to which present to observe. You’ll make decisions, analysis and not settle for uncritically something that’s marketed to you from the media. One other benefit of the season is that there’s data, however even there it’s worthwhile to watch out, as a result of abundance of knowledge.
There’s a phrase that the hero says: “I’d achieve success, however not free”. How does one cancel the opposite out?
That is regarding everybody’s private freedom. It doesn’t imply that social requirements are additionally the requirements of every particular person. If somebody is at present thought of profitable as a result of they’ve cash or a acknowledged place, it doesn’t imply that that is what each particular person needs. One might search peace, quiet, care. It isn’t all regarding cash.
On the menu we see “Papaya mandoles”. What does this menu embody? The title can also be a bit intriguing.
We current the dangerous boy of cooking, so the present has numerous spicy components. The play we current has all the pieces because the hero tells tales from his life, so it has a bittersweet style. It has humor, it has touching factors, it has anger, it has rage, it has the ultimate story of how he received to jail. So this menu has all the pieces. It’s kind of just like the salt that comedy will get in all places.
Why comedy? Do you assume that by way of it you may contact on critical points with out pointing them out to the opposite particular person, or why the world wants a number of quick breaks of laughter, even when it is bittersweet?
It additionally has to do with what I mentioned that I would not need the present to be didactic. When you’ve gotten a scathing comedy, you do not chortle on a regular basis, which occurs in life too. And to have a superb time, generally you may be moved, generally you’ll cry, it provides you the choice to reside in it, to expertise it. Do not prepay you from the start.
Have you ever ever been moved by a theater efficiency?
We normally get emotional and I cry extra simply in films. However I used to be moved once I not too long ago watched the efficiency “The Father” with Pericles Moustakis.
It is your first time as a director. What’s it wish to go from the actor’s chair to the director’s chair?
It’s actually good that there was this path, from actor to director. I don’t assume that one thing ready-made needs to be imposed on the actor. So the truth that I am principally an actor helps make it a inventive course of. I additionally need the actor to have his personal freedom to exist within the efficiency. I would not inform an actor to do one thing that oppresses him and he will not have a superb time through the efficiency. It’s a collaborative course of.
How was that course of?
As a result of I’ve handled motion and dance when it comes to organising a efficiency, I didn’t really feel any insecurity, that I’m in an unfamiliar surroundings. This explicit present went easily, I will have extra to say within the subsequent one.
Will there be continuity when it comes to course?
There will certainly be a sequel!
Christos Christou: “A hero is a person free in his decisions”
Alone on a stage, you inform tales, there are psychological transitions. How exhausting is it;
It’s each tough and exquisite. However I am not alone on stage. On the one hand, I’ve the textual content by Antonis Krysilas, a textual content that has one thing to say to right this moment and is a fantastic people story, and alternatively, I’ve the viewers, which isn’t uninvolved, however is a teammate within the efficiency. The interplay of the efficiency makes the hero “click on” and hang around with the viewers, with the individuals figuring out with him. From the primary moments of the efficiency, the ice is damaged rapidly. All this offers me the sensation that I’m not alone. The toughest half and nerve-racking is till it begins.
What’s the position of the viewers? Is there any probability that it’s going to “up” or “down” the present, be totally different every time and the way do you see these transitions every time?
The reality is that it performs a decisive position. There may be the skeleton of the efficiency, arrange by Petra Mavridis, however from there it adjustments relying on the viewers, the variety of the viewers, whether or not it’s “tight” or extra relaxed. Nonetheless, a technician at Theater 104 in Athens had made a praise and we normally say that you simply be taught the reality from the technicians. So he noticed the viewers, how they have been once they entered and the way they have been once they left the present. He noticed of their eyes that an leisure was happening they usually left totally different. When he instructed me, I actually favored it. I additionally see the general public, the way it transforms, the way it adjustments. The viewers is 50% of the present and the opposite 50% is us. It is a theatrical date. If they’re each dedicated we’ve fantastic evenings. And from this work I’ve solely fantastic evenings to recollect, even in its difficulties, even with 5 individuals within the viewers we had a good time.
What’s the aspect of the hero’s character that “grabs” the viewers from the beginning and makes them theirs?
What the spectators remark following the top of the efficiency: his immediacy, the simplicity of the hero. Underneath different circumstances the hero might possibly be extra curious. He’s in jail, though the viewers doesn’t know this from the start. Alongside the best way, the thread unravels and it’s revealed that he’s a jail prepare dinner… Although we’re speaking a few man in jail, the viewers might possibly be extra suspicious. However, he unravels the thread, he tells his perspective and his story, why he was led to do what he did and I feel what wins the viewers is his immediacy, his fact.
How would you describe the hero? Do you want him, perceive him, perceive him? Are there any factors the place you say I’d have completed issues in another way?
It has been some time since I first learn the play. After I learn it, I used to be an outdoor observer and noticed issues extra coldly. Slowly my first feeling modified. Decoding him, I’ve digested him a lot that I justify him in all the pieces. Now I am unable to be goal with him. I’ve “worn” him a lot that I justify him and “step” on the factors that I acknowledge that he’s proper. If I’m going once more in time, I keep in mind saying “now what’s he doing”, “he appears a bit grumpy”, “why is he appearing like that?”. Ultimately it labored in his favor, that he tries to search out his proper, towards all this hypocrisy that exists, he acts as he needs. And the truth that he’s behind bars and says that he’s now free is essential to me, a key level for me to know him.
How vital is it to lastly communicate one’s thoughts, to behave as one believes, even with emotion and never strictly with motive?
It is extremely vital that one acts like this, even with emotion but additionally with logic. You will need to hear tales regarding individuals who have completed one thing and are known as a hero. That is lacking from our time, additionally as a result of financial scenario which makes issues tough. To seek out or create heroes. Individuals who resist the obvious, that “that is the best way it needs to be” or “that is the best way it’s and it would not change”. Somebody who says that issues should go in another way and let all the pieces disintegrate! And that is as a result of in on a regular basis life I preserve listening to “that is the best way issues are, be comfy like that”. Whereas youngsters have a aggressive spirit, as we get older it is as if we match right into a mould!
So for you what makes a person a hero?
To be free in his decisions, generally towards his pursuits, to comply with his morals.
Since your hero is a chef, what style has this present left for you?
Very candy! And picture that I do not prepare dinner in any respect and I do know the glory within the theater as a prepare dinner! It is a very good style, having in thoughts the completion of all these tales. I feel this story deserves to be instructed.
Information
Coefficients:
Textual content: Antonis Krysilas
Directed by: Petra Mavridis
Units-Costumes: Yiannis Kravaris
Movement Editor: Petra Mavridis
Lighting: Christos Christou
Pictures-Poster: Antonis Christou
Trailer: Grigoris Panopoulos
Present Contact: Daisy Lembesi
Interpreted by Christos Christou.
Normal entrance 14 euros. Lowered 12 euros (Scholar/Unemployed/Disabled/Disabled/65+).
Early Chook 10 euros.
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