How Did We End Up Here?
22.08 — 23.08.2026
21.00
Description
A documentary theatre performance with elements of fiction and an ongoing documentary film come together in a performative piece exploring the lives of exiled women on the island of Trikeri from 1948 to 1952, during the final years of the Civil War and the period that followed.
An original dramaturgy and musical composition based on historical research, testimonies, letters, interviews with close relatives, songs and poems of the exiled women — as well as on our own attempt to enter into dialogue with them, approaching these women not as heroic monuments but as human beings.
Can collective life and a sense of community, under conditions of exile, become a source of vitality and a form of resistance?
And arriving at the present day: how can historical memory and an encounter with the past become tools for the present? How can people confront collective, intergenerational trauma and imagine a radically different future?
REFERENCES: Women’s Camps, Victoria Theodorou, 1975, A Flowering Sprig of Heather, Virgo Vasileiou, Themelio Publications, 1999, Trikeri: Drawings 1948–1953, Virgo Vasileiou, Themelio/Ikona Publications, 1998, Women from All over Greece, Katerina Chariati-Sismani, Estia Publications, 1977, The Wardrobes of Time, Angeliki Garidi, Archeio Publications, 2018
Poems by Victoria Theodorou, Contemporary Social History Archives, The Dilemma and the Price Paid by Women of the Resistance, Tasoula Verveniti, Ta Istorika, no. 31, 1999, Makronisos: Testimonies and Women’s Testimonies, Tasoula Verveniti, Filistor Publications, 2000, Memories and Amnesias of the Archives and Testimonies of the Greek Civil War: Athens and the Provinces, the Leadership and the Members, Tasoula Verveniti, Epikentro Publications, 2008, A Life Like So Many Others, Glykeria Sakeliou-Hatzi, 1985, Interview material by Tasoula Vervenioti, New Sky, documentary by the Collective Memory Group, DSE Film Crew, Photographic Archive of Nikos Margaritis, Contemporary Social History Archives, Photographic Material, O.P.I.VO. – Volos Oral History Group
Heartfelt thanks to:
Tasoula Verveniti, Giorgos Fara, the Volos Oral History Group (O.P.I.VO.), Maria Kadditi, Angeliki Garidi, Thanasis Poulopoulos, Angeliki Spanou, Vasilis Konstantopoulos, Effi Koutsiadou, Antonia Proka, Eleana Chatzaki, Vangelis Skoufakis, Kosmas Kotsis, Giorgos Diamantopoulos, Konstantina Efthymiadou and Kóka Handmade, Meni Tsigkra, Anna Piatou, Konstantinos Zirgkanos, Evi Kaila, and Giannis Angelopoulos.
Contributors
BLACKBOX THEATRE COMPANY
Information
The event is offered for free by the Ministry of Culture.
Advanced booking is necessary.
70'
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