3rd Low Budget Festival
“During the no budget era, Low Budget Festival – for its third consecutive year- is ready to function according to artistic terms, and not by the terms of marketing. Low Budget Festival is ready to present the things that artists want, instead of businessmen. A company of friends has responded to the invitation and 10 new productions are about to begin at the Piraeus garage. These performances are going to attempt the connection between the essential and the primary. The theatre is its people, it is the charming complication of relationships at the stage, and it is the memories that are conveyed. Theatre is the excuse of what you are planning to say or the turmoil when you are in front of the audience for the first time. 3rd Low Budget Festival loves people that are dealing with theatre and it tries to support their creations.
Bless it be that way.”
“The Road will kidnap you” by Sakis Serefas (Enke Fezolari)
Nine stories considering people living in a contemporary metropolis. Stressful stories in the middle of the road and even the compassion offered to these people by the road. The common characteristic of these people is that they never give up. When they fall, they stand up. With some difficulty, but in the end they stand up. Because they are all people that were kidnapped by the road.
Roula turned Parthenon-White Tower into a wrinkle. A souvlaki-seller does not serve kangaroos. A woman breaks up with her fridge for the love of a crow. A prostitute does not pull out the eyes of her clients. A boy smokes cigarettes only with proper grannies. A receptionist prepares his luggage for a journey to Andromeda. A woman hates loud mackerels. A girl watches the trains passing by her and another girl that moves away from the moon for 20 cm. People that were kidnapped by the road just like the boy in a sunny island during midday.
“Athanasia” by Christos Dimas
A woman seated on a wheel-chair that fights for her right of being able to leave this life with dignity.
A journey through narration towards places, time and people. Sometimes either humor is used or emotion. Her voice turns into music or cinema, her immobility reminds of a strange choreography. This is neither a performance about Euthanasia nor an ode to Immortality. This performance is about you and me. When we are devastated by an illness, we all seek an individual way to cope with this state of being. And we stand away from reason.
“The Psychological Profile of a Syros-Inhabitant Husband” by Emmanuel Roides [Thanassis Sarantos]
“The Psychological Profile of a Syros-Inhabitant Husband” (1894) is one of the last stories written by Emmanuel Roides at the end of his career. It is an ideal mixture of subversive irony and satire.
The main character is a man that lives in Syros Island and he strongly insists on being a bachelor. Until one day he meets his other half and he starts reconsidering his beliefs. Now, he is a husband in order to escape from the “state of being in love”!
As the time passes by, he finds himself even more enamored And then, his personal delirium starts being full of nightmares, lovers-candidates and irritating soirees. He hides his love and the actual dimensions of his fortune. He states: “In order to co-exist with a narcissistic woman, you have to hide the nine tenths of your love and the half part of your wealth.”
«You are the shooter and hounds are dancing around you» [Bijoux de Kant] A performance based on Giorgos Ioannou’s oeuvre.
Those who were stabbed are waiting for justice. Those who were robbed and ripped are waiting for justice, but justice is always late. Those who were robbed, ripped and exposed are waiting for the storm of tears. The blood must be washed down, but titter bursts out.
Those who were robbed, ripped, exposed and betrayed are waiting for us not to forget them. They do not want us laughing with the common enemy. Those who were stabbed are waiting for justice helplessly.
«Patty diphusa» Based on Pedro Almodovar’s short story [Antonis Kalogridis]
“Listen, I am the one and only, and yes, I am a star. I am the woman protagonist of all ages. HAHAHA! You ask about too many things. But yes, this is my profession. Well, I am an international sex symbol or as you could otherwise say, a global porn star. You choose and take (me)! My mission is “bad” education with principles. Are you laughing eh?… my name is Patty and I am such a bad girl!
P.S. Don’t hit me hard daddy, just call me!”
Based on Pedro Almodovar’s short story «Patty Diphusa»
“Speech (Less)” by Dimitris Generalis [Giolanda Markopoulou]
“The question of democracy is an extremely complicated one. It needs your great concern” Saddam Hussein once said.
When Platon formulated his idea of democracy, he had no clue that Stalin would agree with Saddam Hussein in the extraordinary leaders’ conference for the Covenant of Totalitarian Regimes in 1986.
When the president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt was trying to persuade the Congress to intervene in order to stop World War Two, he did not know that David Ben-Gurion would be inspired by his ideas, which he would try to infuse them to his people.
At the dashboard of the world map, the pieces of history are only connected for an instance and afterwards spread like a puzzle that needs to be reconstructed.”
A performance by SYNERGIO.
«Golfo! Directors cut» [Simos Kakalas]
«Timeline» [8-Kick]
Did you ever have the feeling that you want to interfere to the text or the dialogues of a theatrical play?
Do you think it is about time for a play based on your ideas to be staged?
Do you think you should get paid to watch theatre?
The last option would not be possible but the former two could come about at the improvised comic play of the 8-kick group.
Finally, the viewer can decide upon everything! It is you, the anonymous viewer who will give to us, the famous comedians, your ideas. It is us who will modify and apply you ideas into ad hoc hilarious scenes.
Following “Super Scene”, 8-kick group presents its new job “Timeline”. A unique and unrepeatable performance that has never been staged before and will never be staged again in the future.
«alexanderplatz» [Kanigounta]
In 1929, Alfred Deblin publicizes the novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz”. A play for those “who search from life something more than just a piece of bread”.
The hero of the play, Franz Biberkopf, is released from prison and promises to stay honest to the Berlin of his time but fails to succeed.
In 1933, the book “Belin Alexanderplatz” is between the ones set on fire by the Nazis in Bebelplatz, the opera square in Berlin.
In 1939, Max Horkheimer writes: “He who does not want to talk about capitalism should also keep silent about fascism”.
In 1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder modifies and adapts the novel for the German television. He thus manages to create an approximately 15 hour brilliant film, “a succession of libertine short stories”.
In 2005, following the Olympic Games in Athens, and in the acne of United Europe, the theater company Kanigounta forms and develops. In their new production “alexanderplatz”, they work upon Deblin’s great novel, trying to prove that the homonymous plaza is not located in Berlin. On top of that, the group sets another peculiar condition: the leading role is no longer that of the character Franz Biberkopf but of the expendable women that surround him.
«Romeo and Juliet for two» [Kostas Gakis]
A brain teaser performance for two upcoming actors.
Two young actors undertake the task of confronting William Shakespeares popular play, performing all possible roles within the context of a crazy game of transvestism and transformation.
A brain teaser performance which forms a puzzle made out of various theatrical genres and styles is in reality an effort to pass over the real meaning of Shakespeares play. With their innocence and body energy functioning as their weapon, the two young performers, fight against the demons of the arena. Their task is to discover from the beginning, the deepest, the most irrational, the most extreme, the most abortive and the most poetically ludicrous love affair of all times.
