- a duo,
- 2026
- 3 male - 1 female [minimum number of actors: 2]
Playwright: Katerina Louvari Fasoi
- Two people wake up after two and a half thousand years: a master and his servant. Once again, they see the sun and breathe the air. They find themselves alone in the middle of a spatial and temporal nowhere. Or at least, that is what they think. The servant soon sets off to find someone who can take his master to a comfortable place, equipped with all the necessities befitting a master such as himself. And so, the two part ways. The master is visited first by an old woman and then by a young man. Each in their own way reveals to him when and where he is: the year is 2026 AD, and they are somewhere in the Greek countryside. The old woman portrays the world as frightening, decayed and polluted, nostalgically recalling the good old days and her village as it once was. The young man, on the other hand, walks in a very peculiar way: hunched over, his eyes fixed on a glowing — intensely glowing — object. He agrees to exchange only a few words with the master. Several hours later, after night has fallen and the sky has grown dark, the servant returns to find his master alone. Impressed and visibly dizzy from alcohol, he tells him about everything he encountered in the nearby settlement, where he met the first people he had seen in two and a half millennia. Men, women and children were all spending the evening together. Nothing seemed to divide them — or at least, that was the impression they gave him. The two men now face an unprecedented dilemma: will they continue their journey through life together, or go their separate ways? Will they carry on until they have rebuilt their home from scratch, stone by stone, or will they part — for the first time — after two and a half thousand years? Sitting on a slab of stone and drinking a bottle of cheap modern-day Greek raki, are they capable of making a wise decision? It is a strange night, unlike any other. It feels like a dream, but it is not. It is real: master and servant find themselves in the twenty-first century, in the middle of nowhere. A farcical comedy featuring four characters performed by just two actors, the play explores humanity’s achievements and its eternal failure to conquer the fear of death — a fear that has governed humankind since antiquity. Ideas, institutions and art merely reflect its symptoms. Two people who, despite their very different origins, ultimately have far more in common than what divides them.