“Exaggerations!”
A performance by Giannis Kalavrianos, Marianna Kalbari, Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou
Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th January
|21:00|
The production of the Karolos Koun Art Theatre, which premiered at the end of last season with remarkable success, will be staged for three performances at the Antigone Valakou Theatre.
It is an original composition and convention in which three creators with the double capacity of writer and director have been invited to explore, separately and together, the limits of the open and hidden underlying violence that governs human relationships today. The result is three modern Greek one-act plays, three different stories interpreted by three actors. What connects them is a strong sense of humour, inspiration from contemporary reality and the choice of their creators to move in psychological landscapes where violence touches borders that are ambiguous, dark and complex. Just like our times.
“Exaggerations!” is what we tend to say about what we consider to be beyond the limits of the “normal”. But what is considered “normal” today, and who can claim to define it? How is it possible to speak of violence as “normal” or of emotions as “excessive”? Let’s talk about all this…
Credits:
Texts-Direction (in order of presentation): Marianna Kalbari, Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou, Giannis Kalavrianos
Set and Costume Design: Christina Kalbari
Music Director: Nestor Kopsidas
Lighting Design: Stella Kaltsou
Lighting Design Assistant: Stevi Koutsothanasi
Director’s Associate (Marianna Kalbari): Marilena Moschou
Assistant Director (Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou): Stathis Georgantzis
Production Organization: Alexandra Hambasi
Photography: Eleftheria Nikolaidou
Cast (in order of appearance):
Katerina Lypiridou, Angelos Bouras, Despina Giannopoulou
THE ONE-ACT PLAYS (in order of performance)
“My father was a very angry man”.
Text-Direction: Marianna Kalbari
With Katerina Lypiridou; Participating: Marianna Kalbari/Marilena Moschou
I returned to my parents’ house. The baby would cry all day. And my father would scream. I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted to die. Or rather, I wanted him to die first and then me. So I could die in peace. How mean, how insensitive are you, I thought. How crazy are you? My mother used to say. You’ve ruined your life. For what? For an idea? For the theatre? I told you, you weren’t cut out to be an actress… And I cried… And the baby cried, cried with incessant sobs. Until the day that…
“The man next door”
Text: Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou, Angelos Bouras
Directed by Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou
With Angelos Bouras
He doesn’t make much of an impression on you when he walks past you on the street. You don’t notice him when he sits next to you on the bus. He is a typical, consistent, hard-working man. He always keeps a low profile. His colleagues and neighbours always have the best things to say about him. His customers always give him 5 stars. He is the man next door. “Please close the door while you read the paperwork, I will wait outside… you never know these days”.
“It was the first time I met someone who talked like a train”
Text-Direction: Giannis Kalavrianou
With Despina Giannopoulou
An essential part of living in organised communities is trusting that everyone is doing their job properly. We enter buildings, travel, eat, go to hospital because we have inadvertently agreed that someone has built, organised and inspected everything we will use. Removing that trust has uncontrollable consequences. A woman, the mother of one of the victims of the Tempi disaster, receives a water bill for 2,750 euros. She goes to the water company to find out what has happened. And she meets a man who talks like a train. And a poster of a caryatid. A day in which she felt quite alive.
The modular show “Exaggerations!” is the third and final part of the triptych of original modern Greek texts on the theme of “Violence Everywhere”, created and presented by the Karolos Koun Art Theatre during the period 2021-23 with the support of a grant from the Ministry of Culture and Education. The two previous productions of “Violence Everywhere” were “Cry”, written and directed by Lena Kitsopoulou, and “Motel”, written and directed by Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/kaZCsdTBoBs?feature=shared
Ticket prices:
14 € General Admission,
12 € Students – Unemployed – Disabled
Online pre-sale: ΥΠΕΡΒΟΛΕΣ! – ΘΕΑΤΡΟ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ ΒΑΛΑΚΟΥ/ΚΑΒΑΛΑ | Εισιτήρια online! | More.com
Pre-sale of tickets daily from Wednesday 17 January, 11.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 20.00, at the Visitor Information Centre of the Municipality of Kavala (former EOT) in the Central Square, tel: 2510-620566.
“Exaggerations!
Monday 22nd, Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th January |21:00|.
Antigone Valakou Theatre
For further information and reservations, please call the Municipal Theatre of Kavala on 2510. 220876 – 7 (09:00-14:00).
