Revolutionary Methods For Cleaning your Swimming Pool
by Alexandra K*

Revolutionary Methods For Cleaning your Swimming Pool
by Alexandra K*

Produced by the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Crete,
directed by Sofia Dermitzaki

"Manos Hadjidakis" Open-air Theatre

Monday 1 September 2025
Starts at 20:30 - Admission at 20:00

Ticket prices: 5€ (regular), 2.5€ (concessionary ticket: pupils, students, members of large families, the unemployed, people with disabilities, people over 65 years old, children up to 6 years old).
Ticketing service fee: +0,50€ per ticket

Presales start on Saturday 30 August at 12:00

* Each user/spectator may book up to two (2) tickets.
* A limited number of tickets will be available at the box office of the "Nikos Kazantzakis" Open-air Theatre, for residents who do not have the possibility of issuing them online.
* The distribution of tickets at the Theater box office will begin on Saturday 30/8 at 12:00.

Tickets Reservation and Purchase terms and conditions

The play Revolutionary Methods For Cleaning your Swimming Pool by Alexandra K*, who is considered one of the important contemporary playwrights of Greece, was written in 2018 and was staged by the National Theatre of Greece to great success. This play is also the first theatrical production by the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Crete for 2025.

Antonis Such illegal holiday home is threatened by foreign capital and the privatization of public land. Along with it, his entire mentality is also under threat -the mindset of the typical Greek family striving to secure a future for their children.
He fiercely resists the state mechanism that seeks to violate already violated land, which he ultimately declares an "independent state", even turning his own children into hostages in the process. It's a familiar vicious cycle - a reality that leads to the pathological survival of the Greek family and, by extension, of society as a whole.
Two main pillars shape this allegorical and ironic work by Alexandra K*: the older generation, staunch defender of the "holy Greek family", unafraid to literally take up arms to protect its questionable beliefs; and the younger, "spoiled" generation, constantly renouncing petty-bourgeois values at every turn. Two problematic generations and a toxic political system that forces them to live in a state of sick interdependence and mutual support. A generation that deludes itself with ancient Greek grandeur and so-called ancestral values, while at the same time, without hesitation, builds "the future" of its children on rotten foundations. A generation in constant conflict with its offspring, who in turn often disparage everything -usually without reason or understanding- in pursuit of a futile and unattainable dream.

Sofia Dermitzaki | director
Evangelia Kampouraki | set and costume designer
Antonis Alexakis | lighting engineer
Maria Papadaki | video art
Giorgos Anastassakis - South Space for photography
photos of the poster, rehearsals, performance
Photopolis Chania | trailer
Kostis Sotirakos | design
Actors: Katerina Lasithiotaki Kostas Metaxakis Ioanna Stamouli Stefanos Tsifas

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