THE THEOFILOS TSAFOS APOLOGY of Nikos Koundouros
The theatrical play of Nikos Koundouros “THE THEOFILOS TSAFOS APOLOGY”, which has been presented this year for the first time ever in Greece, 38 years following the period it was created, is being presented again, at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation by the theatrical company ARTEFACT.
N. Koundouros has been keeping all these years, an exceptional psychographic monologue in his drawer and has recently decided to leave his artwork on directors Yiota Koundouraki as well as actor’s N. Panopoulos mastery.
A deep cut into the soul as well as the brain’s structure of a human being, who has been transformed into a criminal because of fanaticism, makes the play exceptionally evergreen topic as well as timeless.
The hero’s doctrinism and obsession to accomplish a secret mission, lead him to paranoia as well as crime.
With his eyes starred at the audience, Theofilos Tsafos confesses and claims that he is “IMMACULATE”.
He travels through all the facts that led him to the murder of the only woman he loved, he cries, threatens and accuses a society which creates murderers.
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Theofilos Tsafos is the criminal who has been trained to humiliate human existence, making the start from his own being.
He ruins at first his own self, burns into the flames of FANATICISM his heart, thus heartless longs for victims, in order to complete his Secret Mission.
His hands are being transformed into lethal weapons, strangling the only woman he loved in his entire life – simply as that- during love making.
AUTHORITY, well camouflaged behind IDEOLOGY, attends the half-crazy criminal sucking the immolators as well as his victim’s blood.
Unfortunately, human beings history has countless blood-stained pages of fanaticism as well as countless murderers. However, where the real CULPRITS lie?
A play which functions as a scalpel for the murderer’s soul, as well as the society, which creates murderers.
