Roses in the Handkerchief: Sky from Other Lands

The performance Sky from Other Lands is based on Sotiris Dimitriou’s book of the same name, a living monument of language with cracks, inscriptions, and unseen podiums. The central narrator, Alexo, is overwhelmed by an irresistible need to share. Her words surge within her like a rushing current that must definitely find a way out: into a precipice, a big river, a sea, or to an audience member. They want to water, carry away, and drown.

In the shadow of the Archaeological Museum of Arta, Alexo breaks vessels that conceal secrets of the past, exchanges coins – both counterfeit and genuine –, plays with figurines like a girl with her dolls, wears expensive jewellery or undresses, and kindles the candlelight on the tombstones of graves where both enemies and loved ones rest – including her own. A ritual of life that becomes a confession of guilt, nostalgia, and rejuvenating disaster, beneath the light of a dancing sun. Alexo’s words – fragmentary and soft, funny or daring, obscene, generous, weird, majestic – weave a tapestry with secret warps: God’s unknown plan.