{"id":3878,"date":"2024-10-20T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/the-beginning-of-life\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:25:19","slug":"the-beginning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/the-beginning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a poetic landscape somewhere in Greece, dominated by a supernatural fridge and an enormous library, six people \u2013 three women and three men \u2013 get together. Are they enemies, visionaries, paranoiacs, victims or killers? Through their conflicts, their desires and passions, their sarcasm and strife, the fall of Constantinople is revived in a bizarre reenactment. The fall triggers the emergence of a problematic regarding Hellenism\u2019s fragmented identity.<\/p>\n<p>All threads coexist and intertwine: modern Greece with the Byzantine Empire; the Constantinople\u2019s fall with contemporary Europe; the war in the Balkans with an inner and interpersonal war; Konstantinos Palaiologos with Darius Fernazis; Romanos Dragazis with Mohammed the Conqueror; the supernatural refrigerator with Hagia Sophia.<\/p>\n<p>The play has been translated into French (unpublished, titled <em>Les Remplacantes<\/em>).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Beginning of Life<\/p>\n<p>3 male &#8211; 3 female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-3878","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}