Life has no sanctity if one is to live and “produce” it like this play’s heroes do; traitors, 'macho' men, arrogant people, abominations who open sewers and are hungry for money. Men who pimp their wives, molest their daughters and copulate with their sons-in-law. Tessa believes that if her child is meant to have a father – and grandfather – like them, it should not be born; she decides to kill it with her bare hands. A baby is born and killed, while another does not even come into this world – it is slaughtered inside the mother’s belly. A new mother rejects her own child, while a pregnant woman impatiently expects her own.
"No one is spared ... the winners are losers and the losers even more losers». “You all have debts /nothing is free/ you will pay interest on what you got" screams Merlos, Tessa’s lover and accomplice. Interest and childbirth.
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...
