Following its successful presentation in the 2014 Contemporary Theatre Festival “French Theatre à la Grecque”, HILDA by Marie NDiaye and under the direction of Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou will be repeated at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, from January the 16th 2015 to February the 8th, every Thursday to Sunday at 21:00.

 

Born in 1967 in central northern France to a French mother and Senegalese father, Marie NDiaye started writing at the age of 12-13 and studied at the Sorbonne. She has received both the Femina Award (2001) and the Prix Goncourt (2009) for her novels. Her plays have been shown regularly in theatres since 2000. The literary magazine La Quinzaine littéraire described Marie NDiaye as “having found her own totally unique way of talking of subjects which belong to us all”.

 

In her play “Hilda”, the heroes are a young maid, Hilda, and her mistress. The writer dives into the depths of the eternal existence of the relationship between master and servant, superior and inferior, strong and weak. A story about the alienation of identity and the utopia of coexistence. Hilda’s mistress wants to give life to her confused and utopian ideas regarding freedom, democracy and equality whilst Hilda herself quite simply just wants to remain a maid. A catastrophic story! The play was first presented in the frame of the Contemporary Theatre Festival 2014 “French Theatre à la Grecque” on May 31st, and from June 1st to June 3rd 2014 at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.

 

Direction: Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou

Set design-costumes: Constantinos Zamanis 

Lighting: Stella Kaltsou

Photos: Yannis Karampatsos

Video: plays2place productions

Performing: Anna Koutsaftiki, Nicholas Piperas, Natassa Exintaveloni