A statement like “I want a country” is quite ambiguous: any reference or connotation it may imply for the desired country can relate either to the country one lives in or to the country one wants to move to. In other words, the subtext for...
Translation: Vasiliki Misiou I scribble down my own, hasty notes in the margin of the curriculum vitae of Glikeria Basdeki: She was born in the countryside./She still lives there./She is a philologist and teaches in a Junior High School in Xanthi./She writes poetry./She often thinks of Volos./She...
Dousos...
Translation: Elena Delliou “The Screaming Silence of No’s Knife in Yes’s Wound” Samuel Beckett Several years ago, at a moonlit roof balcony in Aristippou street, Constantine Constantopoulos, committed to writing a dramatic trilogy with the family unit at its core. The promise has been fulfilled: Play 1: In...
[Translation: Vasiliki Misiou] The present text aims at tracing Cypriot dramaturgy back, from the 1960s onwards; it draws the outline, presents the basic trends and refers to the most important representatives of the corpus of plays which has been greater than one can imagine. Allow me...
Body narratives – Identity memories Minas Vintiadis (Port Said, 1957) known for his distinct style of writing, prose writer (What I Told Claudia, 1996; The Three Marias, 1996; God’s Right Foot, 2003, etc.) enters the field of dramaturgy with a realistic style of writing, rammed by...
[Translation Elena Delliou] Actor, director, acting teacher with many years of experience and creator of the Theater of Changes, the versatile Evdokimos Tsolakidis emerged in Greek dramaturgy with two imaginative plays. Athens-Moscow (2001) could be the modern sequel of Three Sisters, where Tsolakidis explores the complex...
Roula Faneromeni or –This is who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Mountraki...
[Translation: Elena Delliou] Giorgos Neophytou is an evidently a political playwright. The thematic axis of his works is connected with Cyprus’ political history, and more specifically with the contemporary reality of post-war Cyprus; the local community as modeled after the landmark date of 1974. He emerged at...