- The Unknown Land,
- 2007
- 1 male - 2 female
Playwright: Eugenia Dagla
- The Unknown Land 1 male – 2 female Two women diametrically opposed: LADY (Myrto in real life), a bourgeois woman trapped in a wooden, rigid way of life, confined within a bankrupt marriage to a harsh businessman, who has recently lost her daughter to drugs, meets on a street corner JUNKIE, an orphaned girl, homeless, addicted to drugs, yet with a broad, universal vision of life, deep understanding of the world, and very strong defenses. At the sight of JUNKIE begging, LADY is shaken: fresh memories awaken in her soul; the girl is the same age as her dead daughter. Their encounter is transformative; the two women lead one another into a profound journey of self-awareness, the discovery of the neglected inner self—a journey into existence, into the ignored “Unknown Country.” THE PASSER-BY, a character without a voice—just as voiceless as the everyday human he represents—appears before them completely naked, wrapped in cellophane, like packaged meat in a supermarket. LADY and JUNKIE represent a threat to him, and after he eliminates the—seemingly—more dangerous one, the dreamy, rebellious JUNKIE, he commits suicide in the face of the truly dangerous one: LADY, the person who draws strength from her own “Unknown Country” that she has discovered, who cannot be manipulated by the threat of violence and stands unafraid before him. Between reality and dream, THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY speaks of alienation from our fellow human beings as a consequence of our inner alienation, of the unknown country within us, of the life we live with only half of ourselves: “…unbearable to live with one half of ourselves and the other half, elsewhere, within quietly passing by…”