Roula Pateraki

Demon – Sostenuto assai cantabile, by Maria Efstathiadi

This isn’t the first time Roula Pateraki has tackled an on-stage monologue and enlisted literature’s aid in pushing back the limits of the theatrical. Having embodied creations by Yannis Ritsos, Yannis Panos, Virginia Woolf and Dimitris Dimitriadis, in this monologue Pateraki crosses paths with a minor character from Dostoyevsky’s Demons (The Possessed): little Matriosa, whom the demonic Stavrogin confesses to raping then driving to suicide. Given life and a voice in Maria Efstathiadi’s Demon, Matriosa tells us her version of events.
 
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