Aχ!

 

 Aχ!

Θεατρική παραγωγή της ομάδας bijoux de kant και του σκηνοθέτη Γιάννη Σκουρλέτη βάσει του έργου της Γλυκερίας Μπασδέκη «Αχ!». 

Πρόκειται για μια ιδιοσυγκρασιακή «ανάγνωση» της «Κερένιας Κούκλας», του αθηναϊκού μυθιστορήματος που έγραψε στα 1911 ο Κωνσταντίνος Χρηστομάνος με θέμα ένα τραγικό ερωτικό τρίγωνο.

 

 Σκηνοθ.:Γ. Σκουρλέτης

Ερμηνεύουν: Λ. Δροσάκη, Δ. Μοθωναίος, Κ. Μισιχρόνη, Μ. Συνατσάκη.

Photos: Theatrical play called «Αχ!» by Bijoux de kant (2015)

Vico Nahmias - Strofodines

Vico Nahmias - Strofodines

The title of this performance comes from the Ancient Greek word strofix (pivot) and is a metaphor for the delirious behaviour of the individuals who attain a state of religious ecstasy while whirling in place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a technique which goes back many centuries and can be seen illustrated in stone reliefs of the Ancient Greek Kavirian mysteries, in Asian agrarian events and in American pre-Colombian ceremonies. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primarily, of course, this technique is known to us from the live, mystic Sufi tradition and the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, founded by Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1275), the poet and holy man of Islam.

 

 

 

 

Vico Nahmias has pored over this extensive material with great dedication, proposing a research spectacle which concerns the modern-day viewer, without being disloyal to the roots of its origin.[ more ]

 

These photos are from the preview of the production, which is a part of Athens Festival 2015

Mojo

Mojo is a 1995 play (then subsequent 1997 feature film) written by English playwright Jez Butterworth that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London, directed by Ian Rickson.

 It is a black comedy set in Soho, a fast-paced gangster plot that tells the story of this particular night club's culture. Would-be rock 'n' roll star 'Silver Johnny' is on the road to fame and fortune during the summer of 1958, but encounters problems with his jealous manager, Ezra, the owner of the Atlantic Club, who is hell-bent on protecting him from the amorous advances of creepy local gangster/entrepreneur Sam Ross. Skinny, a member of Johnny's group, and one of the club's pill-popping employees, discovers Ezra sawn in half in separate dustbins, and Ezra's ambitious associate Mickey announces that Ross intends to take over the Atlantic Club.  [ wikipedia ]

Photos: Greek adaptation of the play at: Θέατρο Πόρτα (2015)

Συντελεστές
Μετάφραση–Σκηνοθεσία Θωμάς Μοσχόπουλος
Σκηνικά Ευαγγελία Θεριανού
Κοστούμια Κλαίρ Μπρέσγουελ
Φωτισμοί Σοφία Αλεξιάδου
Βοηθός Σκηνοθέτης Άννα Μιχελή
Φωτογραφίες Πάτροκλος Σκαφίδας
Κομμώσεις Χρόνης Τζήμος
Ειδικά εφέ Πάτροκλος Βλασερός

Διανομή (με σειρά εμφανίσεως)
ΣΙΛΒΕΡ ΤΖΩΝΥ: Αλέξης Φουσέκης
ΣΟΥΙΤΣ: Αλέξανδρος Χρυσανθόπουλος
ΠΟΤΣ: Γιώργος Χρυσοστόμου
ΜΠΕΙΜΠΥ: Γιώργος Παπαγεωργίου
ΣΚΙΝΥ: Ηλίας Μουλλάς
ΜΙΚΥ: Αργύρης Ξάφης

The double II

The Double

part II

 

 

The Double (Russian: Двойник, Dvoynik) is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes.It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.

 

 

Photos from a Greek adaptation of the play directed by Efi Birba.
Starring Aris Servetalis, Drosos Skotis, Giorgos Symeonidis, Simeon Tsakiris, Konstantinos Karvouniaris.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag,

 

 

 

it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there...” 

 

Part I of the post is here

The double I

The Double
part I

“The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if thus announcing the entrance of a very insignificant person...”

The Double (Russian: Двойник, Dvoynik) is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes.It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger (Russian "dvoynik"). [ wikipedia ]

Photos from a Greek adaptation of the play directed by Efi Birba.
Starring Aris Servetalis, Drosos Skotis, Giorgos Symeonidis, Simeon Tsakiris, Konstantinos Karvouniaris.

“I mean to say, Krestyan Ivanovich, that I go my own way, a particular way. I'm my own particular man and, as it seems to me, I don't depend on anybody. I also go for walks, Krestyan Ivanovich.”

“Bow or not? Call back or not? Recognize him or not?" our hero wondered in indescribable anguish, "or pretend that I am not myself, but somebody else strikingly like me, and look as though nothing were the matter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simply not I, not I—and that's all," said Mr. Golyadkin, taking off his hat to Andrey Filippovitch and keeping his eyes fixed upon him. "I'm . . . I'm all right," he whispered with an effort; "I'm . . . quite all right. It's not I, it's not I—and that is the fact of the matter.”