by Mina Petrić in collaboration with Venia Stamatiadi & Eleni Apostolopoulou
|Director: Eleni Apostolopoulou|
|Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 August, 21.00|
|PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE|
|The performance will take place at the Antigoni Valakou Theatre|
Venia Stamatiadi and Eleni Apostolopoulou collaborate with award-winning Serbian playwright Mina Petrić to create the theatrical work “BIRTHLAND Good girls don’t talk about these things”, a piece that, rooted in lived experience, revolves around how a female artist is treated during pregnancy.The performance will be presented on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 August at 9 p.m. at the Antigone Valakou Theatre, as part of the 68th Philippi Festival.
The initial collaboration took place within the framework of the Creative Europe programme and continued at “A Festival in Samothraki” 2024, during which BIRTHLAND was developed as a work-in-progress project by three artistic organisations: Collectif Strates (France), Pedio Technis (Greece), and Artfrakcija (Serbia).
One year later, the play, now a fully realised production, directed by Eleni Apostolopoulou and performed by Venia Stamatiadi and Eleni Chalastani, makes a stop in Kavala as part of a small European tour (Greece, Poland, Serbia, France) for two special performances.
Synopsis
In the film “Good girls don’t talk about these things”, Veatriki plays a woman at risk of losing her job due to pregnancy. But as the shoot progresses, the characters begin to fall apart, the story collapses, and the script starts to resemble her real life more and more. Can fiction really look this much like reality?
Note from the team
How openly do we speak about the workplace discrimination women face because of pregnancy? How often do women have abortions not out of choice, but to keep their jobs? How freely do we talk about the difficult sides of motherhood?
“Birthland: Good Girls Don’t Talk About These Things” is about women who struggle to decide whether they want to have children or not. About others who regret it but dare not admit it, not even to their mirror. About time, running and turning against you. About that looming NOW OR NEVER that weighs heavily on us women around 35–40. Because even though many of us now choose a path outside society’s expectations, we still carry anxiety. Anxiety about work, about whether or not we’ll have a family, what form that family might take. And we’re constantly torn between choices. We believe this anxiety is shared by our entire generation, and we wanted to write a play about that: the urgency of staying professionally active while wrestling with the question of becoming a mother. And whether a child can grow up happy in all this chaos.
CREDITS
Direction: Eleni Apostolopoulou
Set & Costume Design: Myrto Kosmopoulou
Music: Orestis Kalampalikis
Lighting Design: Semina Papalexandropoulou
Video & Photography: Dafni Chairetaki
Production Management: Anastasia Georgopoulou
Production Assistant: Chryso Charalambous
Press & Media: Anzelika Kapsambeli
Poster & Graphic Design: Eleftheria Moscha
Production: Pedio Technis – Collectif Strates
CAST: Venia Stamatiadi, Eleni Chalastani
(On video) Stavros Moiras
|BIRTHLAND Good girls don’t talk about these things|
|Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 August, 21.00|
|Antigone Valakou Theatre|
Duration: 70 minutes
Ticket prices: 12€ General Admission • 10€ Reduced
Online presale:
https://www.ticketservices.gr/event/birth-land-kavala/?lang=el
Presale
Kavala: Municipality of Kavala Visitor Information Centre (former EOT), Central Square, tel: 2510-620566, daily from 10:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 21:00. On the day of the performance, tickets will be available at the venue ticket booth from 19:00.
Krinides: Café “Proskinio”, Ancient Theatre of Philippi, tel. 2510-516090
*No entry is allowed after the start of the performance.
Note: Holders of personalised invitations for the 68th Philippi Festival are requested to confirm their attendance by Thursday 14/8. Identity checks will be conducted at the theatre entrance on the day of the performance.
For more information, call the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kavala at 2510 220876 (10.00 – 14.00).
