Anestis Azas
The Republic of Baklava

Anestis AzasΆ new play, part of the 1821 Bicentennial tribute, is set in modern-day Greece, and can be classified as part-documentary, part-fiction, though it boasts a fictional plot. Featuring a mixed-race couple, a Greek man and a Turkish woman, who decide to form their own nation state using their home and private business as headquarters, this performance theatrically renegotiates tensions that have been active since the Greek Revolution to this day. Through a number of hilarious situations, the heroes are confronted with the contradictions of contemporary Greek society, the problematics of national identity, and the utopian reality of a future, global digital nation, taking us, the audience, along for the ride.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, all performance dates are subject to change

 

Conceived and directed by Anestis Azas

Text Gerasimos Bekas and the team

Set design Eleni Stroulia

Costume design Vassilia Rozana

Lighting design Eliza Alexandropoulou

Sound design – Music Panagiotis Manouilidis

Video Dimitris Zachos

Assistant to the director Michalis Pitidis

Assistant to the set designer Zaira Falirea

Production manager Kostis Panagiotopoulos

Cast Katerina Mavrogeorgi, Cem Yigit Üzümoglu, George Katsis, Gary Salomon