Phaethon is a one-act play that serves as a parable, introducing the archetypal rivalry of the son with the authoritarian father-Sun in the present time. Domestic morbidity, terror and violence; the decay of the family’s social core. In Dimitriadis’ play, the ancient Greece and contemporary England...
A parodical retelling of Aeschylus’ Oresteia that involves music and dance. A company of unemployed actors tries (unsuccessfully) to present some parts of the tragedy (they particularly focus on Agamemnon’s return and his slaying by Clytemnestra) but they lack the technique and they eventually come...
The main and greatest part of this short novel is a narrative. Written some years after the end of the colonels’ dictatorship in Greece, it recounts the various passions and plights of a country in a state of crisis and imminent collapse – one provoked...
In a poetic landscape somewhere in Greece, dominated by a supernatural fridge and an enormous library, six people – three women and three men – get together. Are they enemies, visionaries, paranoiacs, victims or killers? Through their conflicts, their desires and passions, their sarcasm and...
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...
Five voices, bodies, mouths. They speak. Five times they start and five times they finish; and every time is the first time; and every time is the last time. They start in order to speak, and finish to never speak again. In-between, they talk as...
A man and two women form a love triangle that actually is a perpetually rotating circle. In this incessant and accelerating spinning, passion drives these three characters to the edge. It is a passion that, with an increasing intensification and ever stronger brutality, pervades each...
Homeriad is a saga about the non-return, of the battle with nostalgia as a vital necessity for existence. Inverting the Homeric concept of nostos [longing], Dimitriadis perceives the return – the homecoming – as opposing the destination, and the desire to go back as destructive. I am...
The play is an "opera with no music", inspired by Camillo Boito’s novel Senso and Luchino Visconti’s film of the same name. The play concerns countess Libia Serpieri’s passionate love for the Austrian sergeant Franz Mahler. The countess falls desperately in love with Franz, but he...
Dimitriadis builds his play around Euripides’ lost play Chryssipus. According to literary research, the ancient play was part of a trilogy that was also lost and nothing but two letters from the first verse have survived. It concerned the abduction of Chrysippus, Pelopas’ young and...