Following their debut in Mytilene with the performance Aegean Sea at the Sanctuary of Messon in 2021, the Patari Project theatre company returns with their new production Rob & Crus. It is a fascinating performance for the whole family, based on an adaptation of the work Robinson & Crusoe by Nino D’Introna and Giacomo Ravicchio.
While everything around them has been swept away by an unprecedented flood, two men find refuge on the roof of a house. As “castaways” they are obliged to live together for a period of time, yet the existence of the “other” seems hostile. As they do not speak the same tongue, they try to communicate using signs and body language. This creates intense and explosive situations, which are often hilarious. Alone in the world and not having anyone else to turn to, these two “enemies” will approach each other little by little, and will find a way to co-exist. And then a plot twist occurs… And after that what? A humorous work suitable for both children and grown-ups, unique and touching.
Photography exhibition / Audio walk / Theatre performance
Cross-disciplinary piece, based on Stratis Vogiatzis’ book of the same title
There is a life that silently unfolds underneath the ground; a life that has reconciled with the chaos and the co-existence of the diverse elements that compose the world. This life unfolds in a place that knows – without however being able to prove it – that the Individual is actually the Collective, that the Other complements the One, that the Imaginary is the Real waiting to be confirmed, and that the Real, in return, is the Imaginary experienced through the senses. What is this land, this open space, in which, when heterogeneous elements come together, the possibility of a world hitherto “patiently waiting for the right conditions to emerge” is fertilized? What is this land that can withstand to serve as both a background for a picture that will be revealed, and as the picture itself? What is this Camp?
Stratis Vogiatzis’s photography exhibition is made possible with the support of MOMus and Chios Music Festival.
Two leading pieces from the literary heritage. Two iconic female characters from Greek literature, Georgios Chortatzis’ Erophile and Kostis Palamas’ Trisevegni, come together on stage.
Trisevgeni is “a person who doesn’t reflect and can’t be subdued, a person of her own mind, and a daredevil”. She doesn’t fit in with the suffocating social environment around her. She is a creature stubbornly defending her own nature – which means, a tragic heroine. Erophile watches her as she tells her story and tenderly accompanies her. She comments, interprets, and feels for her. She is the fairy of the cistern, her dead mother. Until her singing becomes one and the same as Trisevgeni’s, as she says: “My own song always, which is sung by my whole life. To my own tune”. A story tightly interwoven with a singing tune.
The creative company APARÄMILLON, consistently working on research-based original dramaturgies, now shifts its attention to the dramaturgy of Iakovos Kampanellis for the first time. In particular, it explores the legendary play The Courtyard of Miracles, offering a participatory performance that focuses on the conflict of interests surrounding overtourism in the Greek islands.
More specifically, the heroes and themes Kampanellis uses blend with real accounts and elements gathered through on-the-spot research, creating a symbolic way of addressing the impacts of unbridled touristic development. This is achieved by contrasting the different economic interests of individuals or groups involved, and by illuminating the ethical and deontological dilemmas that stem from them.
Stage indicators from Kampanellis’ The Courtyard of Miracles invite the creative team and the audience, whether they are local residents or visitors, to participate in a kaleidoscope of human characters and intricate relationships.