After two years, with full theaters winter and summer, and after a year of absence, the “Players” of N.V. Gogol, directed by Giorgos Koutlis, return for a few performances in open theaters and come to Aigio, at the “G. Pappas” on Friday, July 19.
Yiannis Niarros, Vassilis Magouliotis, Ilias Moulas, Alexandros Chrysanthopoulos, Thanasis Dimos, Giorgos Tzavaras and Giorgos Boukaouris meet on stage again, under the summer sky, for some more wild trips into the world of bluff and take a risk in this unforgettable adrenaline comedy.
At a remote inn in Russia, a serious card player, con artist, and forger arrives. His goal is to find his next victims and “scratch” them. But it won’t be that simple. In the same inn reside two equally evil con men, who are after the exact same thing as the first: a luscious, innocent and, of course, wealthy victim. The two meet the one and soon join forces, leading the show into a pandemonium full of bluffs, risk, rivalries, alliances, surprises and twists, as all the strange tenants who hang around in this small and quiet inn.
Live music, unexpected improvisations and wild humor in a show – optical illusion, a situational farce, about the art of deception: Performance or reality, actor or role, perpetrator or victim, truth or lie, all are confused and in the end, all that remains is the game.
The adrenaline of the combine, the mastery and the disease of gambling, the ability to deceive everyone, but not to be deceived yourself, and the human obsession to prevail against anyone “next to”, dominate the pen of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol somewhere in 1836, to write a haunted mystery comedy called The Players.
Ikharev. “Why, to live your life like a fool, is nothing special, but to live with shrewdness, with Art, to deceive everyone, but not to be deceived yourself – for that, indeed, it is worth living! “
Actors
Direction – translation – adaptation: Giorgos Koutlis
Dramatic editing: Vassilis Magouliotis
Stages: Artemis Flessa
Costumes: Ioanna Tsami
Music: Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis
Lighting: Sakis Birbilis
Choreography: Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Assistant Director: Iakovos Mindrinos
Photos – video: Christos Symeonidis
Press Office – Contact: Maria Tsolaki
Advertising – Social Media: Renegade Media / Vassilis Zarkadoulas
Production: TECHNICHOROS
They play: Yannis Niarros, Vassilis Magouliotis, Ilias Moulas, Alexandros Chrysanthopoulos, George Tsavaras and George Boukaouris, guest star Thanasis Dimou.
Performance ID
Theater “G. Pappas”, Aigio
Day: Friday, July 19
Time: 21:30
General admission: €20
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