When Manos met Mania they were both weary from all of their previous failed relationships and equally failed attempts at blind dating. They were both single at that critical age of 38 and they decided to unite their loneliness only to be faced, a short time later, with a huge dilemma:  are they ready to dive in at the deep end or do they prefer to splash about forever in the safety of the shallow end, like adults living an extended adolescence?  

Love in the times of Facebook, people who have difficulty cohabiting since they have long learned to do everything on their own, like superheroes who don’t need anyone else, women who lie about their weight, men who lie about their size, the exes who haunt the now, the “I love yous” that are said with such ease and the “I’m leaving yous” which are said with even greater ease, all of this through the story of a man and a women who happened to have the same name and the exact same birthday.

 

Vaso Kavalieratou and Kimon Fioretos are constantly swapping roles and moods, playing not only the main couple of the story but also famous couples from literature, cinema and television, in an attempt to solve the most difficult equation in the world: are we programmed by nature to cohabit or to survive on our own?

Directed by Giannis Sarakatsanis, music by Foivos Delivorias, the performance is the result of the first collaboration between George Chadjipavlou and Asteropi Lazaridou. With elements of stand-up comedy, farcical dialogues straight out of life itself, swift role changes and above all a countdown which will lead the two main characters into the unknown yet exciting future. How drastically could your life change in just 72 hours?

 

Text: George Hadjipavlou – Asteropi Lazaridou

Direction: Giannis Sarakatsanis

Music: Foivos Delivorias

Performing: Vaso Kavalieratou, Kimon Fioretos