Nikos Hatzopoulos – Sofia Seirli

Melpo Axioti – The transformation of the chrysalis

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And we here, now, may have to recreate a child’s heart, if we are to read'







Melpo Axioti







An intellectual and literary pioneer, a committed Leftist and daring modernist, Melpo Axioti spent a large part of her life abroad as a political refugee. The assemblage of texts entitled Melpo Axioti: The metamorphosis of the chrysalis is largely based on two of her iconic prose works – Tough Nights and Kadmo – and forms a polyphonic monologue in which fiction melds with autobiography to create an on-stage persona fighting to keep the memory of language and Greece alive in the face of oblivion and exile.

 

The assemblage of the texts were based on the books: Δύσκολες Νύχτες [Tough Nights], Κάδμω [Kadmo], Το Σπίτι μου [My home], Ποιήματα [Poems], by Melpo Axioti, Kedros Editions / Εικοστός αιώνας [20th Century]. Kedros Editions
 

 
Produced by Athens Festival in collaboration with the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala


Duration 1 hour 15 minutes approximately

Peiraios 260

  • 03/07/2011 at 21:00
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