- Textilen,
- 2012
- 3 male - 6 female
Συγγραφέας: Maria Efstathiadi
- TEXTILEN is a play on the decomposition of a rich urban family in modern Greece. It is not just the story of a family, but the story if a family within the history of the development of Greek capitalism. An “enactment” of the violent mechanisms of the domestic structure/circumstance, but at the same time, a comment on a society that resembles a cloth that unravels. The 19 stages of the play are ironically introduced with lyrics from children’s songs. Three generations are presented on stage at all times: the grandfather of the generation, the dead grandmother, their drunkard and idle son, his unconscionable and charming wife, their dreamer daughter, sometimes a little girl, sometimes a young woman. This basic core is surrounded by an old housekeeper and the English teacher. Outside and beyond them, a bizarre being, the-man-who-walks, the absent offspring, a constant wanderer, invisible to everyone except the daughter. Lastly, during the play, there can be heard two anonymous neutral voices (neither male nor female), something like a modern chorus of an ancient tragedy, which takes part in the plot, in the form of questions and answers.