A play about a family’s path to destruction. Two people meet, fall in love and create a family; having for years maintained a delicate balance and tranquility, the couple’s life has evolved into an ancient tragedy.
A friend who feels betrayed utters something like a prophecy regarding the the future of his friend and his family. This morbid joke is the starting point for the family’s plight, since everything the friend predicted is now happening before their eyes. The family is dissolved and eventually destroyed due to incest. Their previous life is subverted, and the family collapses from within. It is an ordeal, a Calvary, with the stunned "animals" falling over and again to the ground, before the slaughter.
A second level of plot runs alongside the main story; three men of unspecified identity – named A, B and C – observe the family’s fate, without explicitly admitting that they are watching. They act as gods and have philosophical discussions, employing a pretentious language.
The play has been translated into French and Italian.
PLAYS
The Price of Resistance in the Black Market, 1968
8 male - 6 female
Dying As a Country, 1978
Flexible
The Beginning of Life, 1995
3 male - 3 female
The Stunning of Animals before the Slaughter, 2000
7 male - 2 women
Settlement Proceedings, 2003
1 male - 2 female
Insenso, 2007
Monologue
Chrysippus, 2008
6 male - 4 female
Touching the Seabed, 2008
7 male - 3 female
The Circle of the Square, 2009
8 male - 3 female
Interest, 2010
4 male - 4 female
Civilization: A Cosmic Tragedy, 2013
5 male - 6 female - 2 children
Evacuation, 2013
5 female, 4 male and 4 chorus women
Phaethon, 2009
3 male - 2 female
In Chorus, 2015
15 (Chorus)
Reaping, 2016
2 male - 3 female
Stroheim, 2015
1 male - 2 female
ESSAYS
DIMITRIS DIMITRIADIS' THEATRE
Translation: Elena Delliou
In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertru...
In Chorus by Dimitris DImitriadis
Dimitris Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963, with a scholarship from the Belgian state, he studied theater and cinema in Brussels at the...
