Ekaterini Papageorgiou - Nikos Hatzopoulos
Iphigenia / Prey – Me, Her Servant
By Vivian Stergiou - by Vangelis Hatziyannidis
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EKATERINI PAPAGEORGIOU
Iphigenia / Prey by Vivian Stergiou
Inspired by Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
Iphigenia walks around Epidaurus, sending recorded messages to her mother, meditating by the beach. She cares for her skin, visits her altar. Before the altar swallows her, she delivers her oracle—a femicidal "apposition" of commandments: "Love hurts; if you want to be loved, you must endure it."
Vivian Stergiou draws inspiration from Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, focusing on the moment just before Iphigenia’s sacrifice, when she reconciles with her fate. “It’s okay if I die, but first, I shall be heard,” her words spat out like her only weapon. As long as she speaks, she exists in the here and now. The moment she falls silent, she dies—in every sense, in every realm. Everywhere, always, the oracle triumphs.
Her sacrifice is comic, hardly tragic. She digs her own grave and steps into it, offered up for nothing, meat to be consumed. The role is performed by Eliza Skolidi.
NIKOS HATZOPOULOS
Me, Her Servant by Vangelis Hatziyannidis
Inspired by Euripides’ Hecuba
The face of Hecuba faintly gleams within our collective unconscious as the archetype of human suffering. The image of the grief-stricken, venerable, and ethereal old woman is so potent that it overshadows all other facets of her personality—every thought or action, no matter how horrific that action may be.
In his reflection on Euripides’ Hecuba, Vangelis Hatziyannidis crafts a text that is both engaging and enlightening, one that demystifies the ultimate emblem of mourning and despair. He does so through the lens of a character who lived closely with her, offering insights that have never been captured by the great poets. It’s the common human gaze, the small human scale, set against the grand myth. Filareti Komninou brings this journey of the tragic Hecuba—viewed through an unexpected and skewed lens—to life in a remarkably vivid way.
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Duration 90'
Peiraios 260 (E)
- 13/07 until 16/07/2025 at 21:00
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