Angela Gerekou returns to the theater stage embodying one of many beloved historic figures, Princess Sissy, whose tragic life we have come to know via the small display.
The Municipal Regional Theater of Corfu presents on June 14, 15 and 16 the brand new play by Zacharias Roja, “Sissy in Heaven” with Angela Gerekou within the title position, directed by Varvara Doukas.
What might occur if after the top of all of the revolutions, all of the actions that the final centuries have fostered, Princess Sissy was reunited along with her killer, however … within the Different World … the place “everyone seems to be equal” and all she has does forgiveness matter?
That is the topic of the brand new unique play “Sissy in Heaven”, primarily based on the life and premature dying of Princess Sissy, the unhappy empress of Austria, written by the actor Zacharias Rojas on the request of the creative director of DIPETHE KERKYRA, Varvaras Doukas.
Just a few phrases concerning the mission
The play takes place in a “th-place”, (Purgatory-Paradise?), the place time, seasons, titles, origin, cash don’t matter, solely the RITUAL:
“The souls have to be reintroduced and the drama repeated from the start. This time with the objective of forgiveness…”, as Angelos says within the play, who as a director, makes positive every thing occurs on time!
With a number of humor and theater-within-a-theatre strategies, the play touches on essential points that outlined the twentieth century: What are lives price when individuals are struggling? With how a lot blood is a Revolution justified? What does jail imply to everybody? What’s the significance of particular person tales within the face of the overwhelming circulate of historical past?
The play comes to indicate that the impossibility of non-public insurrection has the identical weight because the determined act of an ideologue, and that what one believes, regardless of how righteous, can by no means “be known as motion”.
The private tales of every of the protagonists, Princess Sissy, her assassin, Luigi Luceni, his mom Luisa, Sissy’s son, Prince Rodolfo, in addition to his lover and cousin Maria Vecera, and even Sissy’s trainer, of the Greek mental and director Constantinos Christomanos, all of them ended with a wound within the coronary heart…
Who can justify their little life however themselves? What can repeat historical past, besides the Theater…
Coefficients
Writer: Zacharias Rochas
Directed by: Varvara Douka
Actors
Princess Sissy: Angela Gerekou
Luigi Lukeni: Spyros Sourvinos
Louisa Lukeni: Dina Avaianou
Angelos/Rodolphos/Konstantinos Christomanos new: Nikos Mellos
Zacharias Rochas seems within the video within the position of Konstantinos Christomanos
The textual content and the efficiency are devoted to the reminiscence of Chrysa Spiliotis, with whom, above all, the contributors shared the dream of realizing this work, earlier than her personal premature dying.
June 14-15-16 on the Municipal Theater of Corfu
Princess Sissy and her relationship with Greece and particularly Corfu
In 1861, with the yacht “Victoria & Albert”, granted to her by Queen Victoria of England, for a cruise in Southern Europe, she visited Corfu for the primary time, the place she was welcomed by the English governor Sir Henry Strokes and supplied together with his nation residence. simply exterior the town of Corfu, the villa “Mon Repos”.
Sissy will spend a number of months there. Life in Corfu will excite her and remind her of her carefree childhood in Bavaria. She spends her time taking lengthy walks and hanging out with the islanders. Each her husband and her sister Nene go to her in Corfu.
To her beloved island, she’s going to return many occasions sooner or later, particularly when, with the repeated blows of destiny, she is visited by melancholy and melancholy. After the dying of the successor Rodolfos, he returns nearly completely to Corfu, the place he buys the “Villa Vraila”, which he fully renovates. The works on the home would take 4 full years and in 1892 they’d be accomplished.
The type of the home is influenced by numerous kinds, Greek, Roman, Ionic and likewise Pompeian structure. Sissy wished to create an oasis round her, wherein gods and goddesses would coexist with heroes from the works of Homer. Hordes of artists created murals and work, each inside and outdoors the home. The gardens had been crammed with sculptures and statues of heroes from Greek mythology and historical past. Considered one of them, the statue of “Dying Achilles” within the backyard, impressed Sissy to decide on the title of her home: “Achillion”.
Her favourite pastimes had been lengthy walks and speaking with the locals, who additionally adored her. However she was at all times beneficiant and financed the village’s aqueduct, as the realm was dealing with a severe water provide drawback. A plaque was additionally erected in her honor, which stays to today.
The Greek schooling of the princess
Her favourite trainer was Konstantinos Christomanos, a pupil on the College of Vienna, who made her actually adore the nation, good and extremely educated, whereas for Christomanos Sissy was his princess. She thought-about him a fairy story come to life. They spent infinite hours collectively and a platonic love had blossomed between them, as Christomanos admitted in a e-book revealed after Sissy’s dying, “Empress Elizabeth’s E book – Diary Leaves”, and wherein the writer had recreated most of the their dialogues.
Nonetheless, the royal Courtroom, which didn’t need something from the royal surroundings to be recognized to the broader public, was displeased with him. The Austrian censors banned the e-book, the newspaper stopped working with him, they usually indicated that he was not welcome of their nation. Originally of 1901, after wandering in philological and theatrical Europe, he completely settled in Athens, the place he would turn into the founding father of the Nea Skini troupe and deeply affect the event of recent Greek theater by introducing for the primary time the idea of the director.
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