Askisis

Theatre company “Askisis” founded in September 2004 by P. Moustakis, F. Talaboukas, S. Besis, E. Maouni, M. Mathioudakis, E. Loubardia, E. Kouvaka and A. Provia. “Askisis” is housed in the homonym theatre and is sponsored by the Ministry of Coulture and I.F. Costopoulos Foundation. Previous productions: “America Hurrah” by Jean Claude Van Itallie (2006-2007) and “The Cherry Orchard” by A. Chekhov (2007-2008). Future production for the period 2008-2009 will be “Killing games” by E. Ionesco.

Askisi Theatre Company
Contact person: Pericles Moustakis
18-20 Fragoudi str., 17671 Kallithea
Τ. +302109236992, Ε. askisis_theatre@yahoo.gr, W. www.askisistheatre.gr

Summary of the play

The play deals with once wealthy and honored Russian family. Madame Ranevskaya an aristocratic Russian woman with her daughter and servants, returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. While presented with various options to save the estate, the family essentially does nothing and the play ends with the estate being sold to a former peasant and neighbor who has become a wealthy merchant. The family leaves the estate to the sound of the cherry orchard being cut down as they head to different directions.

Reviews

“…dericted with exceptional expertise... fresh and very talented actors in a powerful performance elaborated to the last detail! “
Panayiotis Andrianesis, Naftemporiki, 5/6/2007

“ …a seditious approach of the play, performed inverted as if the actors are wearing the role-suit “in side out”
Grigoris Ioannidis, Eleftherotypia, 1/3/2008

“…feast of surprises and sensations …bodies dancing and defeaturing the speech, …inflaming the characters, inflaming themselves, fighting and mastering tradition…”
Maro Tiandafilou, The Season, 4/11/2007