{"id":4121,"date":"2024-10-20T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/mengele\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:25:57","slug":"mengele","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/mengele\/","title":{"rendered":"MENGELE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two modern-day people \u2013 a man (a civil servant in an administrative post) and a woman (a PhD Candidate in History) \u2013 , strangers, run into each other in the carriage of an electric train during a late night route. After an unexpected power cut, an ordinary small talk gives way to a game; to overcome the awkward moment, they decide to play a role-playing children\u2019s game. Each of them will impersonate a specific historical or fictional character; the man will portray &#8220;Joseph Mengele&#8221;, the infamous &#8220;Angel of Death&#8221; of Auschwitz, while the woman will portray &#8220;Esther&#8221;, the granddaughter of a Jew survivor and who fell victim to the horrible experiments of the mysterious doctor. Soon, however, the game takes a different turn for the two people who are trapped in the train: could it be that they actually <em>are <\/em>the characters they impersonate? How far can they take this &#8220;game&#8221; when issues regarding moral values, the human condition and History emerge?<\/p>\n<p><em>Mengele<\/em> is an edgy play, oscillating between classic extremity and modern jeopardy. An extreme moral parable, a post-political dystopia, a science-fiction thriller and a heartbreaking romantic tragedy intertwine beyond the boundaries of morality, in the invisible threshold where the fiercest of loves meet ultimate evil.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MENGELE<\/p>\n<p>1 male &#8211; 1 female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-4121","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4121","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\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}