“War is a matter of intelligence and stupidity. A genocide is a matter of the degeneration of intelligence.”
Theatre ENTROPIA presented in 2008 its new production “Genocide” for a limited number of performances at non-conventional theatre spaces in Athens.
Avantpremière
FRIDAY 23/05
21.15 at KYPSELI’S MUNICIPAL MARKET
TUESDAY 27/05 - MONDAY 2/06
21.15, at the outdoor space of METALLOURGEIO
The multi-media performance is a result of the dramaturgical composition & elaboration of texts on the dark and irrational phenomenon of Genocide, inspired by the two formidable books by the French journalist, Jean Hatzfeld, about the massacres in Rwanda. The books are both a study and a rare documentation – with authentic, first-person narratives and confessions by the survivors, as well as the killers.
Within the fluid landscape of successive video projections, which refer both to earlier genocides and barbarities suffered today, in a dialectic relation to the extreme physicality of the actors, this contemporary Chorus of the five performers, who constantly alternate in the roles of killers and victims, unfold their stories.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Concept – Dramaturgy - Director: Marilli Mastrantoni
Translations: Marilli Mastrantoni, Ismini Chliova-Bitzani, Thaleia Griva, Anastasia Anastasiadou
Set & Costume Design - Videos: Emmanouela Vogiatzaki-Krukowski
Music: Ilan Manouach
Choreography: Maria-Ioanna Xanthaki
Lighting Design: Aggelos Gounaras
Director’s Assistants: Thaleia Griva, Ismini Chliova-Bitzani
Scenographer’s Assistants: Giorgos Giourelis, Nikos Dalezios, Stella Romanou
Production Assistant: Marianna Boura
Sound Engineer: Alexis Gkikas
Performers: Anna Garefalaki, Makis Kyrlis, Eugenia Manolika, Natassa Paschali, Grigoris Serbis
In the video installations participate: Christoforos Dikas, Marilli Mastrantoni and the journalist Giorgos Avgeropoulos
Photographs: Takis Vekopoulos
Production: ENTROPIA