ΤHE AMERICAN of Alexandros Papadiamantis
The performance “The American”, a dramatized narration by Thanasis Sarantos, based on the name classic story of Alexandros Papadiamantis, comes back to Athens and is going to be presented for 2 performances, honoring the 100th anniversary of the acknowledged writer from Skiathos island.
Sunday, March 13th 2011, 19:00 & 21:00 (for just 2 last performances)
At Theatre Hall of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
The Performance
A theatrical adaptation of the homonymous classic novel by Alexandros Papadiamandis, that involves an actor and a musician who remind us the dimensions of the human solitude and the “uncured” suspicion over against the unknown or the seemingly strange.
The hero is “a stranger in his own world”. Of course, he is neither a stranger nor an American. He is a Greek emigrant who after 25 years of absence returns back to his island but no one recognizes him. He wonders by himself alongside the port, the islands alleys and faces his family house ruins. Only love is what he hopes for. “The American” could easily be the story of an immigrant in Greece, today.
In the performance Thanasis Sarantos, as the narrator, interprets the character of Alexandros Papadiamandis novel in cooperation with the music and the sounds of the composer Lambros Pigounis.
A dialogue of Papadiamandis’ exceptional writing with live music. The atmospheric music of the piano in coherence to the language used in this classic novel make a unique theatre performance.
