My first tic tac of all your seconds (nobody’s story or no story at all) in concept – direction of Eirini Sourgiadaki
[nobody’s story or no story at all]
On March 11 & 18 at 20.00, at the Foyer
of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.
“I wanted to make you happy. I wanted to buy you a present. A very expensive present, to make you very happy. Something’s wrong with my watch. It is a good watch. It is not broken, I took it to the repairman. He says he doesn’t understand what the problem is with it. He also asked me why it is set 20 minutes ahead. I replied that reality is running 40 minutes behind. You, my love, do you have a watch?”
A man in a waiting room, trapped in a non-place, in a space without history. He is a strange kind of aesthete, maintaining his very personal attitude in the Chaos he lives, feeding the hope that everything will soon end without mentionable losses. His desire is to meet Her. The one that he shares the same distance with, while trying to ignore the minor or major war that takes place around him. Maybe because the blood thats dripping is not his. At least not yet.
A perpetual comment based on the idea of the socio-political situation considered as a time bomb, which, whereas is heard ticking, will never explode; its joints are worn by time and environmental factors. The play originates from the modern reality in Greece, seen through the scope of kilometric distance. As time in the country goes by in mute, the intensity of violence is escalating. As the intensity of violence is escalating, its citizens get used to it, integrate it into their rationality. Silently, with no pain, with no memory of killing or explosion. Civilized.
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The performance was presented at the Gessnerallee Theater in Zurich, at Onassis Cultural Center in Athens and at Menu Spaustuve Arts Printing House in Vilnius.
