It’s something of a tradition now. The duo that every year, in August, we announce that they are included in the grants for theater of the Ministry of Culture.
The reason for him Christos Strepkos (Art Machine) and him Telemachos Tsardakas (AMKE Kantharos – Act Theater) which, as it turned out, kept the tradition this year as well.
Specifically, a total of 233 timely proposals were submitted, including Theatrical Productions, Theatrical Events, Theatrical Festivals and Theatrical Tours. of which 188 met the terms and conditions of the invitation. The total grants reach 2,006,000.00 euros.
As stated by Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni: “Once again, the Ministry of Culture, through the Creative Greece program, supports the theater and its creators, with grants of over 2 million euros to professional theater groups, for the realization of productions, events, festivals and tours. Grants to theater schemes are a main parameter of our Culture policies. Their material support ensures ideal conditions for the expression of creators and for the diffusion of their work and inspiration, a factor of social cohesion and solidarity, ensuring employment in the creative sector. At the same time, they also give impetus to the extroversion of modern Greek creation, so that it can conquer wider audiences and on the world stage, as it deserves”.
The Achaean Deputy Minister of Culture Jasons Fotilas said: “The Ministry of Culture’s 2024 grant call for theater events, theater productions, theater festivals and theater tours is a powerful tool for expression, emotional communication and problem-solving with creativity and imagination. The Ministry of Education and Culture supports theater activity and integrated social and educational actions throughout Greece with individual grants for theater schemes that this year reach €2,006,000 in a total of 188 requests. The Ministry of Education contributes in the clearest way to the strengthening of culture and to the strengthening of cultural culture”.
As we wrote above, among the list we find again this year the two Patristic creators, Christos Strepkos and Telemachos Tsardakas.
Specifically, the AMKE Kantharos – Theater act, i.e. Telemachos Tsardakas, was granted with the amount of 25,000 euros for the project “The best time of the day”a production which is also placed under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As for her the Art Machine team and Christos Strepkos, were granted with the amount of 15,000 euros for the show«Marjorie Prime» by Jordan Harrison, which it was finalist for the 2015 Pulinger Prize for Dramawhile it is noted that this performance will also be the pan-Hellenic premiere of the work. It is noted that the show is also under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the play we are transported to a future that is not far from our present. Marjorie spends her time rewriting her past in favor of her idealized memories, aided by the interesting innovative technology that allows her to do so. With deeply felt characters – both real and in the form of holograms or “Primes”, the work carves out and poses the most troubling questions of the digital age: are we replacing our memory with a false reality and what does this mean for the preservation of truth ; Marjorie Prime ultimately questions whether the manipulation of our past is an alteration of history or a welcome consolation.
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