CHoROS Theatre Company - Simos Kakalas
Apokopos (In Pieces)
by Bergadis
Following their version of Spyridon Peresiadis’ Golfo, a highly clever and moving production enjoyed at last year’s Festival, the CHoROS Theatre Company continues to explore traditional Greek works with Apokopos, a poem with satirical undertones thought to have been composed in the early 16th century. Arranged in 558 rhyming couplets “by the Cretan Bergadis”, the poem is written in demotic, Late Byzantine Greek, is littered with scholarly elements, and strongly features the Cretan dialect. It is a vivacious work, one of the most lively examples of folk poetry: apokopos (“in pieces” or “worn out”), the poet dreams of his descent into Hades.
The direction attempts to create, by the simplest of means, a unique theatrical language that combines masks, shadow puppet theatre, the intense use of the narrative word, and continuous musical accompaniment. The performers are rendered featureless by masks based on casts of their faces but with their individualising characteristics smoothed out, which borrow stylistic elements from Cycladic figurines and Minoan wall-paintings.
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