21:15h CATASTROPHE (GREECE)

Date: 26.07.2024

Time: 21:15h

Location: Kino Lumbardhi

Production of “Efamillon” -Greece

Theatre Show by Dimitris Bampilis (Aparamillon)

 

Directed by: Dimitris Bampilis; Dramaturg: Dimitris Bampilis, Georgia Kanellopoulou; Set and costume design Daphne Aidoni; Original music – Sound design Manolis Manousakis; Lighting design: Eleni Choumou; Research collaboration: Dimitra Loupi; Assistant to the director: Antonis Papanikolatos; Assistant to the set – costume designer Christofili Kontolefa; Production manager: Katerina Kourti; Cast: Maya Andreou, Lambros Grammatikos, Irini Kyriakou, Konstantinos Dalamagkas, Alexandros Bitsikas.

 

About the show:

The world is collapsing. Or so it seems at least, as we have been feeling, increasingly strongly, for a while now. The world economy is in recession; the clock of the climate crisis is counting down; the pandemic threatens our social ties; amid the apparent peace prevailing in the West, war is a reality.

Six citizens of this collapsing world, some of them artists, others not, yet all of them sharing a common anxiety about the future, find themselves stranded on a stage that also doubles as a shelter, seeking the Great Solution that will save us from the impending Catastrophe. As available food supplies are running low, their inventiveness is increased and their references to political movements and philosophers are intensified, as are their love and longing for art, dance and music.

The dramaturgy of this performance is predicated upon interviews and field research in areas in the aftermath of catastrophic natural phenomena. The production references writers such as David Sepkoski, Maurice Blanchot and Walter Benjamin as well as drawing on participants’ experiences, fusing the fantastic with the real, an aspect that defines the current aesthetic pursuits of the ensemble\