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...
Five men, three women, two teenagers and two aliens – servants who never appear – are inside a luxurious manor house, whose foundations ail. These people bear traumas and guilt, worship their ancestors and are trapped in verbal clichés. They all suffer; captives of private and...
In Annunciation, Cassandra decides to negotiate herself her personal myth – which depicts her loveless and hostile to any erotic proposal –, radically disproving her commonly-known and well-established image. She turns into her opposite. Cassandra’s past situation is everyone’s past, and her present one is...
A modern version of Phaedra. Phaedra is the owner of a bar and Klaus (Theseus) is confined to a wheelchair. His confinement arises from the fact that Theseus is no longer emotionally and physically able to articulate his thoughts. An erotic and disorderly love affair...
Love is the basic pattern that Dimitriadis poses, exposes and transposes in this play, via a series of dysfunctional relationships which he pushes to their limits; a woman who left the marital home returns, and her husband avenges her with epic cruelty; a woman kills...