The Body of Time (The Moment) by Sotiris M. Sabanis with Yannis Degaitis – Directed by Panayiotis Narlis

The Theatre Company “The Other Side” presents Sotiris M. Sabanis’ monologue “The Body of Time (The Moment)” with Yannis Degaitis under the direction of Panayiotis Narlis at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.

After forty years of immigration, Michalis has to return to his homeland in order to give transplant for his brother. This circumstance becomes a life challenge and a peculiar journey that exceeds him. He has been stigmatized by the past imprints of sentimental charm and he has to face the most difficult dilemma of his entire life. During this journey, the character of the play addresses certain questions to his own self.

Michalis is trapped in memories; he is reliving his childhood, enlightens all the dark corners of his memoirs and drags up vivid images through a constant, dreamy and unpredictable route. People that do not exist anymore and people that are waiting for him, they are all passing in front of him, while he is absorbed by his peculiar and inaccessible world. In that world, the character meets his inner truth that brings him face to face with his destiny. A truth that depicts his insignificance necessitates his decision and makes him feel exposed.

If love is the answer to our eternal quests, our hero cannot rely on it. His decision lies beyond love, pain and freedom. His decision is the truth that has to be attempted in order to gain the empathy of the others. These others believe that defeat always starts with an endless affection and the people can be lost for the sake of the other.

“The Body of Time” is structured around this loss. Time that passed by us and it has been gone, like either a moment or an eternity.  Past, present and future; aspects of reality that are abandoned. The need becomes the basic element of duality and awakening. Michalis’ great opponent is his own self and his journey constructs little by little a transcendental reality open to doubt and the inner truth of the human.