FEMALE GENDER

INTRODUCTION
David Mamet’s acting technique, which is called “Practical Aesthetics”, is being taught in our country for the last four years. This effort began with an objective to create for the studying actors a safe environment of specific and conscious tools which can support an integrated acting ability. The forming of our company, called “X-ACT”, was the next step in our voyage. The company’s aim is to become a platform of research and implementation of “Practical Aesthetics” in the Greek acting world, not with a superficial approach, but with constant and meticulous focus on its components.

The first production of the company carries the title “FEMALE GENDER”. The one-act play by August Strindberg “Motherly Love” takes up the first part whereas the second part begins with a short text by Tina Vassilopoulou with the title “The Costumes” and closes with the one-act play by A.Strindberg “The Stronger”.

The performance is all about how well equipped or unequipped are women in their struggle to gain personal independency and self-respect, to become emancipated, to find true love. “Daughter”, “mother”, “wife”, “mistress”, “friend”, fight with one another and with their own self while struggling to regain their handicapped personality-identity.

For more information about “Practical Aesthetics” please read our interview to Achilleas Kourias from 15 October 2010 with a click here