PARKLIFE by blind spot team
an original text of Stelios Lykouresis
in direction of Michalis Konstantatos
At its second performance the blind spot team presents a fresh theatrical play, which in all the simplicity and the structure of cinematic language, approaches social issues and personal relationships of our modern era. The performance, absolutely contemporary, sets for discussion the financial crisis’ and unemployment’s issues and how these circumstances affect the relationship between two young adults.
A young ad woman wakes up in a car, next to a stranger. In a while, having his help, she recalls faces, situations, his identity as well as the way they ended up together in that dark park place.
However, are all these he says to her true? Is there something in her mind buried from another reality? Is this man a colleague of hers indeed, who helped her at a difficult moment or is he someone else? And finally their relationship emerges through a sequence of occasional incidents or is it a mutual choice of two persons pressed by the routine?
Through the verbal conflict at the front seat of a car, two characters travel to the limits of their roles as professionals as well as humans.
Will they come out saved or not in the end?
In this performance where theatric language encounters the cinematic one, the power of live action is being environed with images and sounds, where through the novelty of the directional concept as well as the text’s originality, the play’s world is being introduced to the audience with an entirely unexpected way.
The performance PARKLIFE uses Specially Configured Underground Level of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation as a parking lot. In this particular space, a car becomes the main set prop for the performance and functions like an independent mobile theatrical stage that turns spectators into witnesses or even voyeurs of a constantly subverting situation.
Blind spot
Blind spot team was found in 2009 by the director Michalis Konstantatos and the actor Yota Argyropoulou. It is an open collective team which was created having as aim the creation of theatrical performances and in general artworks- which would combine elements from different arts and come into effect with the collaboration of various artists. Our first performance, “The Fall”, was based on the homonym novel by Albert Camus and had been presented at Bios during the period of November 2009 – February 2010. Won many references and positive reviews in mass media.
