Μυστήριο 76 - Don't look back

Μystery 76 Don't Look Back
Theatre

The new creation by Yiannis Houvardas
transforms the warehouses of the Old Oil Mill Factory
into the abandoned
Hotel Spectre

From 19^th to 29^th May 2023

Warehouses of the Old Oil Mill Factory

Meeting point: Old Canteen of Elefsina
(coastal front - opposite  the Old Oil Mill Factory)

Limited number of seats

L' heure de l' horreur ou le malheur du Bonheur or
How I imagined Hades
In my dream one night.

2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents Mystery 76 Don't Look Back, the new creation by Yiannis Houvardas. The three Warehouses of the Old Oil Mill Factory of Elefsina will be transformed into the abandoned Hotel Spectre in which the spectres of the mythical lovers Orpheus and Eurydice will be brought to life, portraying the fateful moments of their tragic love. An unprecedented dreamlike journey that blurs the lines between audience and performers, inviting spectators to make crucial decisions at key points in their tour. The pre-sale of tickets starts on May 3^rd here.

Walking the line between thriller, science fiction and metaphysical performance, Mystery 76 Don't Look Back draws inspiration from the one condition imposed by Hades, king of the Underworld, on Orpheus if he wanted to bring his beloved Eurydice back up with him to the world of the living: Don't look back. The project is also inspired by other famous tragic love stories as captured in film, theatre, poetry, music, dance, visual and other art forms.

The audience steps into a labyrinthian ghost hotel, the Hotel Spectre, starting a "descent" to Hades. Following the dreamlike figures as they appear, act and disappear, the audience is drawn into a close-up experience of their own. All these figures who were, at some point in their lives, an Orpheus or a Eurydice, are now the fragments of a tragic, unrequited or unredeemed love. A love that was born and died inside the Hotel Spectre, leaving the "victim" - and sometimes the "perpetrator" - mutilated, like immaterial visions, wandering in the rooms of the "hotel", without the possibility of contact or any communication with their partner, sometimes visible to the public, but not to themselves.

During this journey, time seems to have paused at the "cursed moment" when the fatal event occurred - whether a murder or a suicide, a painful separation or a terminal illness, betrayal or madness, even an unexpected and unexplained disappearance. The spectre of each hero returns again and again, without end, without redemption, as if in repeated punishment, to the place and time of the "crime", searching for their lost other half, reliving the event that led them to this state of "eternal captivity". Space and time lose their ordinary form, and as in a dream the conscious submits to the subconscious. Imagination becomes dominant and anything can happen.

Conceived & Written by: Yiannis Houvardas
Dramaturgy Associate: Eri Kirgia
Interior & Set Design: Eva Manidaki
Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami
Original Music: Thodoris Economou
Lighting Design: Christina Thanasoula
Movement: Markella Manoliadi
Sound Design: Kostas Michopoulos
1^st Assistant Director: Harikleia Petraki
2^nd Assistant Director: Nefeli Vlachopanagioti
3^rd Assistant Director: Despina Lardi
Interior & Set Design Assistant: Anna Zoulia
Costume Design Assistant: Vassiliki Souri
Sound Recording - Audio Mixing: Kostas Bokos
Recording Studio: Studio 9
Production Management: Dimitra Dernikou | Two Monkeys Productions
Stage Manager: Marita Vlassopoulou

Performers: Spyros Dogas, Rania Economidou, Stefania Goulioti, Karyophyllia Karampeti, Ioanna Koliopoulou, Kostas Koroneos, Hector Ligizos, Pantelis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Kalliopi Simou, Apostolis Totsikas, Penelope Tsilika, Konstantina Verrou, Yannis Vogiatzis.

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How to get to Elefsina
# 21km

Just 21 km from the centre of Athens, one of the most important sacred cities of antiquity, the city of the Eleusinian Mysteries and birthplace of Aeschylus, Elefsina is the fourth European Capital of Culture to be hosted in Greece.

How to reach Elesfina

• By car or motorbike via either Attiki Odos or Athinon Avenue, just 25 minutes from the center of Athens
• By bus (lines 845 and 871 from Piraeus, 876 from "Ag. Marina" metro station and 878 from Acharnes)
• By suburban train (to "Magoula" station and then by bus 863)
• By intercity coach (ΚΤΕL) (line Megara - Nea Peramos - Elefsina, starting from Asomaton Square in Thiseio)