{"id":4386,"date":"2024-10-20T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/the-unknown-land\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:42:10","slug":"the-unknown-land","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/the-unknown-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Unknown Land<\/p>\n<p>1 male &#8211; 2 female<br \/>\nTwo women diametrically opposed: LADY (Myrto in real life), a bourgeois woman trapped in a wooden, rigid way of life, confined within a bankrupt marriage to a harsh businessman, who has recently lost her daughter to drugs, meets on a street corner JUNKIE, an orphaned girl, homeless, addicted to drugs, yet with a broad, universal vision of life, deep understanding of the world, and very strong defenses.<br \/>\nAt the sight of JUNKIE begging, LADY is shaken: fresh memories awaken in her soul; the girl is the same age as her dead daughter. Their encounter is transformative; the two women lead one another into a profound journey of self-awareness, the discovery of the neglected inner self\u2014a journey into existence, into the ignored \u201cUnknown Country.\u201d<br \/>\nTHE PASSER-BY, a character without a voice\u2014just as voiceless as the everyday human he represents\u2014appears before them completely naked, wrapped in cellophane, like packaged meat in a supermarket. LADY and JUNKIE represent a threat to him, and after he eliminates the\u2014seemingly\u2014more dangerous one, the dreamy, rebellious JUNKIE, he commits suicide in the face of the truly dangerous one: LADY, the person who draws strength from her own \u201cUnknown Country\u201d that she has discovered, who cannot be manipulated by the threat of violence and stands unafraid before him.<br \/>\nBetween reality and dream, THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY speaks of alienation from our fellow human beings as a consequence of our inner alienation, of the unknown country within us, of the life we live with only half of ourselves:<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026unbearable to live with one half of ourselves and the other half, elsewhere, within quietly passing by\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-4386","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4386","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4386\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}