Vaggelis Theodoropoulos

Dirt by Robert Schneider

The nexus of problems caused by the mass influx of immigrants into the city makes Athens today the ideal setting for Dirt. The protagonist, Sad, – played by the talented Giannos Perlegas – is a thirty year-old Arab living in Europe without papers.
 
In the words of the play’s director, who has been working in the sphere of the political theatre for several years now: “He is the Other, the segregated, the foreigner who’s responsible for everything dark and bad in our lives. He’s our neighbour in Berlin, in Vienna, in the suburbs of Paris, in down-town Athens…”.