The Low Budget Festival Speaks … French! No2
No2
From 13th to 28th of April 2013
At the Specially Configured Underground Level
Of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
General Admission: 10€
Presale starts on 29th of March 2013
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Jean Anouilh said: “The aim of Art is to give shape to life, and this is the basic aim of the second French Low Budget Festival that is organized by www.tospirto.net in cooperation with the French Institute of Athens. The festival is going to be accommodated at the beloved Specially Configured Underground Level of Michael Cacoynannis Foundation and it will attempt to give shape to the contemporary French dramaturgy through the creative gaze of four talented Greek directors.
The positive outcome of last year’s festival has reminded to us that the dynamic contemporary French theatre can speak Greek fluently. Hence, this year’s festival brings to us: contemporary plays, up-to-dated translations, entrepreneurial directing gazes and interesting performances. Theatrical expression is an international language that gives shape to life.
13- 14 -15- 16 April 2013
Hours: 19.30 (13/4) & 21.30 (14-16/4)
“The on-stage confession of every director is a fraction. The two consisting parts of this fraction are: on the one hand, the initial ‘reading’ of the play, the ‘vision’, the ‘conception’ of its adaptation and on the other hand the possibilities of the realization (hall of the performance/ schedule of the rehearsals/ production/ the team) of all the things that are mentioned above.
This game of analogy between the vision and the action, the ideal and the practical, is the element that turns directing into a fairy pathway. This game is obvious in my adaptation of Korman’s play. Korman approaches with his play the actor both as a human-being and as an artistic nature and he talks about the dark sides of the human soul. All these are achieved through a realistic script and poetic references, in a cryptic way.
So, we present a performance that has the form of a childish drawing. The two actors try to overcome their roles by using the possibilities that are offered by the theatrical stage and by expressing the dominant humour of the play!”
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02 Sylvia Liouliou “At Home, Waiting for the Rain” by Jean-Luc Lagarce
17- 18 -19- 20 April 2013
Hours: 23.30 (17 & 20/4), 21.30 (18 & 19/4)
“Two women are experiencing the idea of waiting and possibly their hopes can be proven false. These two women, who could be one woman or every woman-, are about to experience mourning. They are tragic heroines and they are standing under the threshold of their urban door waiting for Him. He can be the one that comes or the one that is about to leave forever.
Their stories are an elegy to the human pain, a French elegy to the female existence that tries to seek its roots back to the Ancient Greek Tragedy, Tsjechov’s legacy and the modern European Dramaturgy. Their stories are female monologues that try to find the right words in order to express their sentimental conditions. How many words are needed to ease the grief for a lost brother or son? How many words are needed for the waiting of the eternal return of an absent husband?
Jean-Luc Lagarce gathers in his play all the drops of the female desperation, and these drops are exactly the right quantity for mourning the death of an only-son of a family.”
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03 Ektoras Lygizos “The Warriors” by Philippe Minyana
21- 22 -23- 24 April 2013
Hours: 21.30
“Three soldiers are returning from the battleground, right after the end of the war. They are all going to meet at the same place the same woman that was their affair during the war-time. They will try to gain her presence in their life firstly through words and lastly by making war.
Four wounded young people that were suddenly forced to grow up and none of them is really an adult. Four young people that aspire to confess their war-stories and relive their lost romances.
The peculiar rendez-vous of Penelope with her three suitors takes the form of a comedy about war and love. A farse for the fallen soldiers.”
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04 Marianna Kalbari “Guillaume, my Darling” by Guillaume Gallienne
25- 26 -27- 28 April 2013
Hours: 21.30
” My first recollection is bounded with my mother: I am four, five years old. Mum calls my brothers and me to eat: “Boys and Guillaume! It’s time to have lunch!”. The last time that I talked to my mother was two days ago over the telephone. She said to me: “Kisses my darling!”. Ok, let’s say that there was a little misunderstanding.
That specific “misunderstanding” inspired the comedian and director Guillaume Gallienne to write a clearly autobiographical and sarcastic monologue. He states that his intentions were not explanatory or complaining. He just wanted to resolve this misunderstanding that was connected with comical and grotesque moments of his life. Until the time that he realised who he really is.
So, the basic topic of this performance is the journey of every person in order to define his/her sexual identity and behaviour. During that journey, one has to realise what s/he desires and s/he has to stop the influence of the family.
Guillaume (Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou) and “KATALATHOS” team are presenting an “improvised show” that is dedicated to his mother. He approaches his life with humour and he hopes that he will be able to confess to his mother that”
