Piramatiki Skini tis «Technis» – Thessaloniki – Yannis Leontaris

Joël Pommerat, Les Marchands


“I was her friend, her there next to me. A friend.”


A woman talks about the factory that’s closing down, about unemployment and despair, about her friend who throws her baby out the window: a woman-next-door up against one of the burning issues of our times. Still, this theatre is “never naturalistic, still less populist”, notes Jėrõme Sallė: “Poetry can pop up amidst the clichés and the classifieds”.


A historic Thessaloniki company introduces us to a “researcher of the theatre”, Joël Pommerat, in a production that earned the respect of theatre-goers and critics alike.