CARYATID!
by Giorgos Kapoutzidis
Directed by Katerina Mavrogeorgi
Kappa Theatre | 2nd year | Opens 8 October
The satirical comedy returns in October - more savage than ever!
Following its enormous success last season, Giorgos Kapoutzidis' coruscating Caryatid!, directed by Katerina Mavrogeorgi, returns on Wednesday 8 October to a new venue, Kappa Theatre. Caryatid! is a subversive comedy set in present-day Greece, about this long-suffering country's remarkable tendency to get caught up in situations that quickly spiral out of control.
In about half an hour, the long-awaited press conference will finally take place. Reporters' trembling fingers hover over the record button on their cameras. Prepared speeches and heartfelt expressions are rehearsed repeatedly; because even experienced politicians are feeling nervous today. Today we are all brothers; today we are all one.
Today, after decades of captivity in the British Museum, the ethereal Caryatid, the long-lost sixth sister, the shimmering symbol of an entire civilisation, is to return to Greece! The whole country is on tenterhooks waiting for her arrival, as if she were a best friend, aunt, or long-lost cousin from abroad. Her reception, however, will not be what we imagined, planned for and dreamed of. Not by a long chalk. The appearance of the Caryatid in her mother country is a tragicomedy. Hilarious, but merciless.
Caryatid! was commissioned from the author as part of a series of Modern Greek Plays at the National Theatre of Greece in the 2024-25 season.
Director: Katerina Mavrogeorgi
Dramaturgical advisor, Artistic associate: Antonis Antonopoulos
Set design: Artemis Flessa
Costume design: Ifigeneia Daoudaki
Music: Panagiotis Melidis (Larry Gus)
Movement: Sofia Paschou
Lighting design: Vasia Attarian
Video design: Tassos Gkoletsos
Production dramaturg: Vivi Spathoula
Directing assistant: Sofia Stathatou
Set design assistant: Aggeliki Vassiliopoulou-Kampitsi
Costume design assistant: Alexandra-Anastasia Ftouli
Lighting design assistant: Serafeim Radis
Second directing assistant: Corine Vezirgianni
Make-up design: Olga Faleichyk
Hair design, Wigs: Konstantinos Koliousis
Cast (in alphabetical order): Asimina Anastasopoulou, Maria Filini, Stelios Iakovidis, Sotiris Manikas, Agoritsa Oikonomou, Drosos Skotis, Stelios Xanthoudakis
Photographs: Elina Giounanli
Video: Patroklos Skafidas
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