The Art Theater production, which was first presented at the end of last year’s season with remarkable success, on Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 October at the Orofos Theater in Patras
It is about one original composition and conditionwhere three creators with the double status of writer and director, were invited to explore each one individually and all together the limits of the open but also the hidden, underground violence that governs human relations today.
So they were created especially for the show, three modern Greek one-act plays, three different stories interpreted by three actors. What unites them is the strong mood for humor, the inspiration from modern reality and their creators’ choice to move into mental landscapes where the violence borders on controversial, dark and complex. Like our time.
“Exaggerations!” we are used to talking about what we consider to be beyond the limits of “normal”, “normal”. But what is considered “normal” or “normal” today, and who can claim to be in a position to define them? How is it possible to speak of violence “normal” or emotions “excessive”? Let’s talk about all this…
SHOW IDENTITY
Texts-Direction (in order of presentation):
Marianna Kalbari, Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou, Yiannis Kalabrianos
Sets-costumes: Christina Kalbari
Music Editing: Nestor Kopsidas
Lighting design: Stella Kaltsou
Assistant in lighting design: Stevi Koutsothanasis
Associate director (Mariannas Kalbari): Marilena Moschou
Assistant director (Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou): Stathis Georgantzis
Production organization: Alexandra Hambasi
Photos: Eleftheria Nikolaidou
Starring (in order of appearance):
Katerina Lipiridou, Angelos Bouras, Despina Yiannopoulou
THE MONOPRACTS (in order of presentation)
“My father was a very angry man,”
Text-direction: Marianna Kalbari
With Katerina Lipiridou
Featuring Marianna Kalbari/Marilena Moschou
“I returned to my father’s house. The baby cried all day. And my father was screaming..
I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted to die. Or rather I wanted him to die first and then me. To die in peace. How mean, how insensitive are you? i was thinking How crazy are you? my mother used to say. You ruined your life. Why? For an idea? For the theater? After I told you, you don’t act like an actor… I was crying too.. And the baby was crying, crying with non-stop sobs. Until the day-”
“The Man Next Door”,
Text: Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou, Angelos Bouras
Direction: Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou
With Angel Bura
You are not impressed when he passes you on the street. You don’t notice him when he’s sitting next to you on the bus. He is a typical, consistent, hardworking person.
He has never given a right. Colleagues and neighbors have only the best to say about him. He is always rated 5 stars by his customers. He’s the man next door.
“Please close the door while you read the papers, I’ll wait outside…there’s a lot going on these days.”
“First time I met a man who talked like a train”
Text-Direction: Yannis Kalavrianou
With Despina Yiannopoulou
A key component of life in organized communities is the trust that everyone is doing their job correctly. We enter buildings, we travel, we eat, we are treated, because we have informally agreed that someone has built, organized and controlled everything we will use. The removal of this trust has uncontrollable consequences.
A woman, the mother of one of the Tempe victims, receives a water bill of 2,750 euros. And he goes to EYDAP to see what might have happened. And he meets a man who talked like a train. And a poster with a Caryatid. A day that felt quite alive.
The modular show “Exaggerations!” is the third and last part of the triptych of original modern Greek texts under the theme “Violence everywhere”, which created and presented the Art Theater during the two years 2021-23 with the support of a grant from the Ministry of the Interior. The two previous productions of “Violence Everywhere” were “Cry» in a text-directed by Lena Kitsopoulou and the “Motel” written and directed by Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou.
Ticket prices:
General admission: 15 euros
Reduced: 13 euros (student, unemployed, disabled)
Presale of tickets at the Theater Box Office and at ticketservices.gr
Reservations at 2611-810983
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