Platonov

Platonov (Russian: Платонов also known as Fatherlessness and A Play Without a Title) is the name in English given to an early, untitled play written in Russian by Anton Chekhov in 1878.

It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre. Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923.

The lead character is "Mikhail Platonov", a disillusioned provincial schoolmaster, and his name is used for the title in English translations.

Chekhov's own text, which despite a running time of about five hours he never thought of as finished, is seldom played.

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Love affairs, discussions of debts, drink, boredom and monotony are the landscape in which the guests on the veranda of the attractive widow Anna Petrovna lead their lives, until the arrival of a young teacher, Platonov, who will have a profound effect on their stagnant existence.

However, the charming hero’s lustre gradually fades as he wastes his time enjoying the frailties of others and putting his own to the test. Four women are sucked into the vortex of his charm and his dangerous game will have unforeseen consequences for everyone.

In his first play, Platonov, Chekhov tackles the main thematic motifs that will occupy him in the future.

His heroes are ruled by the passions and frailties of human nature, expectations are unfulfilled, and life is a futile quest for happiness in which comedy and drama endlessly alternate, just as in real life.

This early example of Chekhov's genius is directed on the Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage by Giorgos Lanthimos (director of the multi-award-winning film Dogtooth).

The production is based on a modern adaptation of the play by David Hare and is performed by a dynamic cast of young actors.

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Adaptation: David Hare

Translation: Efi Giannopoulou

Direction: Giorgos Lanthimos

Set design: Anna Georgiadou

Costume design: Thanos Papastergiou, Vasileia Rozana

Movement: Amalia Bennett

Lighting design: Thimios Bakatakis

Musical support and sound processing: Christos Lainas

Dramaturg: Elena Karakouli

Assistant to the director: Anna Nikolaou

Cast:

Porfiry Glagolyev: Manos Vakousis

Osip / Sergei Voinitsev: Thanassis Dimou

Isaac / Abraham Vengerovich: Vasilis Karaboulas

Nikolai Triletski: Andreas Konstantinou

Marko / Kiril / Maria Yegorovna: Ariane Labed

Anna Petrovna: Angeliki Papoulia

Katya / Sofia Yegorovna: Maria Protopappa

Michael Platonov: Aris Servetalis

Sasha Ivanovna: Elena Topalidou

A small  against-the-regulations-about-videocameras scene from the play

Personal Note: Probably the best play I had the chance/luck to attend this year. Fresh, Interesting, Innovating, Inspiring.

Why Did We Fire The Gun

Lay down your head

And show me if you like it

Lend me your ears

And read me like a book

This conversation

It strikes me

No need for words

It's all understood

Lay down your head

And show me if you like it

Wondering if there is something

We did wrong

Nothing can stop me

From shaking

Why did we have to fire that gun

Lay down your head

And show me if you like it

Wondering if there is something

We did wrong

Nothing can stop me

From shaking

Why did we have to fire that gun

Why did we have to fire that gun

Waldeck

Let Them Eat Cake

I have some friends, all dressed in black, their eyes can never see

they seem to think they give a fuck, they hate and disagree

I have some friends, all dressed in rimes, afraid to touch the world

they sing for everything that shines, they haven't made up their minds 

some of them afraid to sleep, keep boring all the life away

they always frown and shake their teeth cause smile's what urges god to stay

I want to feed them cake

always filled expired alibis, I want to feed them cake

always burnt in phoney fires, I want to feed them cake

always wearing a smiling mask, I want to feed them cake

always frightened in the dusk, I want to feed them cake

Nalyssa Green

G-Babies

Baby Guru & Larry Gus 

Those photos are taken from their recent live@Knot Gallery:  "Larry Gus and Friends"

 

Larry Gus + Άγγελος Κυρίου

" My friend Larry Gus"

 Larry Gus under surveillance

Riding the Rhythm

Riding the Rhythm - Closer

Sha-man 

You can listen to Larry's music here: alt.Link1, alt.Link2, Official Blog, MySpace

 8 sec Baby Guru

more Baby Guru's music: alt.Link, Official Site, MySpace

Bachelorette

I'm a fountain of blood

In the shape of a girl

You're the bird on the brim

Hypnotised by the Whirl

Drink me, make me feel real

Wet your beak in the stream

Game we're playing is life

Love is a two way dream

Leave me now, return tonight

Tide will show you the way

If you forget my name

You will go astray

Like a killer whale

Trapped in a bay

I'm a path of cinders

Burning under your feet

You're the one who walks me

I'm your one way street

I'm a whisper in water

Secret for you to hear

You are the one who grows distant

When I beckon you near

Leave me now, return tonight

The tide will show you the way

If you forget my name

You will go astray

Like a killer whale

Trapped in a bay

I'm a tree that grows hearts

One for each that you take

You're the intruder hand

I'm the branch that you break

Bjork

The Greek War of Independence III

Part III: The Greek Metal

 

Aggelos Sikelianos' House@Delphi 

Antic Shop@Athens

I will come back 

The Greek War of Independence II

Part II: Greek -Hellenic- Nature

 

Once there was a forest here

 

Holy Ground@Delphi

 The Warning

The Greek War of Independence I

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1830.

The Revolution is celebrated on 25 March by the modern Greek state, which is a national day.

This month (March 2011) I went for a small trip in the country and I decided for the next 2 posts (plus this one) to dedicate them to Greece,  Greece's History and to our future revolutions.

Part I - Ancient Greece - Hellas 

 

Iniohos@Delphi

 

Kouros Bros@Delphi

 

 Hope Disappeared

Walking in.to paintings

  

You've been searching for that someone,

and it's me out on the prowl

As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself

Don't get lonely now

Dry your whining eyes

I'm just roaming for the moment

No time to search the world around

Cause you know where I'll be found

When I come around

I heard it all before

So don't knock down my door

I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser

to try and slag me down because I know you're right

So go do what you like

Make sure you do it wise

You may find out that your self doubt means nothing

Was ever there

You can't go forcing something if it's just

Not right

No time to search the world around

Cause you know where I'll be found

When I come around. 

Green Day

The beard of a postpone revolution

Sick at heart and lonely,

deep in dark despair.

Thinking one thought only

where is she tell me where.

And if she says to you

she don't love me

just give her my message

tell her of my plea

And I know if she had me back again

well I would never make her sad.

I've gotta heart full of soul.

She's been gone such a long time

longer than I can bear

but if she says she wants me

tell her that I'll be there

And if she says to you

she don't love me

just give her my message

tell her of my plea.

The YardBirds

I'm a spy, I can see

I'm a spy in the house of love

I know the dream, that you're dreamin' of

I know the word that you long to hear

I know your deepest, secret fear

I'm a spy in the house of love

I know the dream, that you're dreamin' of

I know the word that you long to hear

I know your deepest, secret fear

I know everything

Everything you do

Everywhere you go

Everyone you know

I'm a spy in the house of love

I know the dream, that you're dreamin' of

I know the word that you long to hear

I know your deepest, secret fear

I know your deepest, secret fear

I know your deepest, secret fear

I'm a spy, I can see

What you do

And I know

The Doors

See Through You

Everybody loves the way, they do

Oh, everybody cares a lot, they do

Everybody knows our love will do

And they'll see through you

No one ever knows how I love you

No one ever feels like I feel you

Oh, no one understands the way you do

And I'll see through you

Everybody loves the way, they do

Oh, everybody cares a lot, they do

Everybody knows our love will do

And they'll see through you

No one ever knows how I love you

No one ever feels like I feel you

Oh, everybody knows, and they'll see...

see through you

Flunk

3 years

Thursday, March 20, 2008

(my) space diary has been born,

and it is wondering since into the vast electronic soup of Internet

It is now three -3- years old

This blog had been transformed many times

and it is still changing...

so do I.

-

Images from March/2010

the warmth of art galleries

during a warm friendly conversation

proteXX blue

It's a fab protective for that type of a girl

but everybody knows that she uses it well

it's the therapeutic structure i can use at will

but i don't think it fits my b.d. drill

sitting in a carriage of a bakerloo

erotica my pocket got a packet for you

advert on the escalator on my way home

i don't need no skin flicks, i wanna be alone

I didn't want to hold you

I didn't want to use you

protex, protex blue

all I wanna do

The Clash

Midnight summer dream

Woke up on a good day

And the world was wonderful

A midnight summer dream had me in its spell

I dreamt about an old man

Sat and watched the rain all night

He couldn't sleep a wink as all the drops fell

He told me of the beauty

Hidden in our foreheads

He told me of the ugliness

We show instead

And when we put a foot wrong do we learn

From all the pain

A midnight summer dream as he watched the rain

I woke up in an armchair

He had gone I don't know where

Left me there to sit and look at the rain

Don't remember much at all

But his words were echoing

A midnight summer dream and then wake again

Maybe I'll never find him

Maybe he's gone forever

One thing's pretty certain helped me

Make it in the night

Showed me somewhere else besides wrong and right

Wake up on a good day

And the world feels wonderful

Midnight summer dream has me in its spell.

Stranglers

If you believed they put a man on the moon

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?

Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? Hey baby, are we losing touch?

If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon

If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

Here's a little agit for the never-believer. 

Here's a little ghost for the offering. 

Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's. 

Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling (wrestling bears). Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon

If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool

REM

The light stays on over our heads

Take me out tonight

Take me anywhere, I don't care

I don't care, I don't care

And in the darkened underpass

I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last

But then a strange fear gripped me

And I just couldn't ask

Take me out tonight

Oh take me anywhere, I don't care

I don't care, I don't care

Driving in your car

I never never want to go home

Because I haven't got one

No, I haven't got one

There is a light that never goes out

The Smiths

Like a hobo, Like a tree

I’ve always known

Since I was a young boy

In this world,

everything’s as good as bad

Now my father told me

always speak a true word

And I have to say that is

the best advice I’ve had

Because something burns inside of me

It’s everything I long to be

And lies, they only stop me

from feeling free

Like a hobo from a broken home

Nothing’s gonna stop me

I’ve never yearned

for anybody’s fortune

The less I have

the more I am a happy man

Now my mother told me

always keep your head on

Because some may praise you

just to get what they want

And I said mama I am not afraid

They will take what they will take

And what would life be like

without a few mistakes

Like a hobo from a broken home

Nothing’s gonna stop me

Charlie Winston