“Your True Story?” written by Chryssa Spilioti
True Story, written by the late antiquity satirist Lucian (120 – 170 AD), is turned into a play by Chryssa Spilioti, at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, under the direction of Chryssa Spilioti. The very first science fiction novel in European literature, provides the basis for a play of endless imagination and humor, sprinkled with references from ancient literature (Platonic myth of the Cave, Eleusinian mysteries etc.).
The “Your True Story?” aims pedagogically at the following goals:
To trigger the imagination and the interest of the teenagers and to truly entertain them. The teenagers are neither children nor adults. On the one side they are getting bored and taunt everything childish that they think that underestimates their intelligence and on the other side they get shocked and being often repelled by the adults way of thinking.
To deal with the real problems of these ages bu using their own language, their own way. The teenage viewers through the adventures of the teenage heroes, recognize their own insecurities, the lack of confidence, the loneliness, the anger, the tendency to the disappointment and the easy solutions.
To remind them the culture and the classical tradition that can even today give inspiration to young people.
The Myth: The adventures of a group of young people who run away from everyone and everything in search of their personal truth. Rebellious against oppression as well as their own deep rooted beliefs, they watch themselves being transformed into something totally unfamiliar. Having thus lost all meaning and purpose in life, they set sail for a long voyage into time and space.
On their way, they encounter the Corkfeet, floating on corks, who invite them to visit Corkland, the land of the carefree. On the island of Dionysus, the priestesses there, lure them and make them drunk, and in this state they ride a twister all the way to the moon where they go into battle with the Sun people. On the island of Dreams, they get tricked into believing that all their wishes will come true and then enter into a discussion with Death about the futility of life. On the island of the Blissful, they almost reach their personal fulfilment, while taking part in their rites and on their way back they forget everything they lived on their journey. Upon their return though, they know exactly what they are looking for. A show made by the real young for the young at heart!
