STELLA travel: the recited land

A performance by bijoux de kant based on STELLA by Michael Cacoyannis

STELLA travel: the recited land. An ethnographic thriller. A tragedy. A meager evidence of the non-existence of God. A comment on beauty. A comment on sin. An erotic story. An endeavor to prove that the year 1955 has never existed. A journey. No journey. All of those and none of them.

The play is based on Michael Cacoyannis film Stella and aims at re-establish in todays world the mythical character, which identified with the acting by Melina Merkouri. In the play Stella travel, the characters are eliminated to three and the central heroine talks constantly about a travel. A journey which she doesnt know if she really wants.

Stella in the slaughterhouse recites her life on a bloody stage, trying to find her voice or what she thinks as a voice. At the recited land, everything is allowed. The characters, the time and the place are interwined. The new Stella suffers. She suffers by an intolerable nostalgia, by both desire and loss, by a wound and a miracle.