What has our Civilization to show? And how can we… move forward

      In the land of Great Beyzah, civilians are obliged to contribute with “human limbs” in exchange to their survival. In the restaurants of his territory dinner is served during humans are “eating” each other. In a room, two men are searching for a dead friend’s body in the “atmosphere”, meanwhile a farmer is closing “pending issues” with a coffin.

Vassilis Ziogas’s four one-act plays Restaurant Humanismus, The Steaks, Great Beyzah and Discussion with a coffin are masterly composed with extracts from Jonathan Swift’s sarcastic texts, creating fiction, pleasantries, a game of irrationality and allegory. Humor, social libel and mockery of existential and social human condition constitute a kaleidoscope of actions, images and ideas from all humanity and our civilization till today; a civilization of manifest or/and invisible “cannibalism”.The scenery of a butcher shop along with the video projection and the live baroque music are composing the “place” of an unconventional and conflict encounter. A humanity in the making with alive and condemned, persecutors and spectators.

What’s the role of every Individual in a World without purpose? What has our Civilization to show? And how can we… move forward?