Nikos Arvanitis
God Tells Them So
Based on a story by Sotiris Dimitriou
A short story written in the matchless prose of Sotiris Dimitriou, who captures the immediacy of the spoken word and preserves the “acoustic wonder and unpredictability” of local dialects, provides four actors and three musicians with a framework withn which they can narrate, act, play and sing.
The author of May Your Name Ever Be Heard takes us to the Greek-Albanian border, to the shell of a house being built for an emigrant Greek who has recently returned to his homeland after many years in Germany. The drama of life at the border, of the people on either side of the line, unfolds under an incessant downpour over the course of a single day, from noon to night to a cruel dawn. Music and song are called upon when words prove in adequate. And to this fateful border gathering is added a group of Albanian gypsies who have lost their way.
The play was first performed during the summer of 2006 in various outdoor settings in the Epirus countryside, in close proximity to the Greek Albanian border.
The Scholeion venue will be hosting a photography exhibition of works by Nikos Economopoulos in conjunction with the performances.
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Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes with no interval.
Scholeion (Hall A)
- 20/06 until 23/06/2007 at 21:00
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