Translated by Sofia Dionisopoulou, Directed by Pericles Moustakis, Set and Costumes designed by Agelos Ageli, Music selected by Manos Pergioudakis, Lighting by Panayiotis Manousis, Cast: Giorgos Kapoulas, Periclis Moustakis, Yannis Bogris, Marios Panayiotou, Constantinos Papatheodorou, Matina Pergioudaki, Elina Sifaki, Dora Stylianesi, Fidel Talaboukas, Efi Tsarouha

Summary of the play

A plague is sweeping out the city. People are dropping dead just like that, one after the other, instantly, with no warning whatsoever. Neither ideologies and science nor politics, or even love are capable of preventing death. Everyone appears ridiculous taking measures against death, hoping to skip the inevitable, while at the same time they all plunge into a spree of consumerism, they try to rationalize life, to fall in love and to view death through a political scope. They fail to comprehend what’s happening to them, to communicate with one another and, instead, they develop a bourgeois mentality and speak, function and run like hell in an effort to forget that they will die. The above take place in another city, different than ours, far, far away from us.

Reviews

“…Askisi doesn’t cease to surprise us, always having the advantage to startle, to shock and to bother our theatrical habit. But what they mostly have is the ability to generate issues…”
Grigoris Ioannidis
Eleftherotipia

“…Α dynamic high-standards and high-aesthetics performance. No artistic discounts, no divergence from their objectives…”
Dimitris Tsatsoulis
Nea Estia

Άσκηση 

The Company was founded in September 2004. It is housed in its homonymous theatre and is being subsidized by the Greek Ministry of Culture. In the years of it’s creative course, Askisi has presented Jean Claud Van Itallie’s America Hurrah (2006-2007), Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard (2007-08, 2008-09, participation in ATHENS SYSTEM 2008) and Eugene Ionesco’s Killing Games (2008-09), a play also being performed during the theatrical period 2009-10 alternately with Visits – the new theatrical production of the company, based on writings by Jean – Luc Marion and Andreas Empeirikos.

Contact

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