SPRING: The Girls of the Exodus

Are there male and female “purposes,” gender-based inclinations and talents? Are fields like science, pharmaceuticals, architecture, or astrophysics suitable for girls?

Spring 1960, Missolonghi. A group of students from the Girls’ Junior High School crosses the city streets in protest against the establishment of a Practical Junior High School exclusively for boys, which would exclude them from STEM subjects. This is a story about women born in the Greek countryside after World War II and during the outbreak of the Civil War, who envisioned a life equal to that of men for themselves. Self-luminous girls, and therefore strange for their time and ours, in a world where gender roles still define the dominant national narrative, despite their superficial transformation. A work about youth and the talents that nature hides within people, regardless of time, place, gender, or social mores. An original performance inspired by true and (truly Greek) stories.