Anestis Azas

Case Farmakonisi or The right of water


On January 20, 2014, eleven migrants, among them eight children aged three to eleven, drowned at sea off the island of Farmakonisi. The tragedy serves Anestis Azas and his associates as an occasion for a work of documentary theatre that explores a Europe of closed borders and the stance of the justice system towards refugees and immigrants. Professional actors and experts who were involved in the case in an institutional, professional or social role take the stage in a performance that hovers on the boundary between documentary and fiction.