Damianos Konstantinidis
Les Paravents
by Jean Genet
Jean Genet’s monumental and emblematic Les Paravents (The Screens), which shocked French society in 1966 when it was staged at the Odéon Theatre directed by Roger Blin, is to receive its Greek première in a production directed by Damianos Konstantinidis.
The work was written during the “operation to maintain order in Algeria” and proved as discomforting to the conservative as it did to the progressive circles of the time, given that Genet used the French incursion into Algeria to undermine current models of heroism, ethics and military service.
Through the extreme theatricality and grotesqueness that typifies his work, the mechanisms of History are revealed along with the place of the individual in the social and political spirit of their age.
A small tribute to Les Paravents will be staged to mark the work’s Greek première, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the author’s death.
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- 30/07 until 31/07/2016 at 21:00
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