Adaptation of Aristophanes’ play to contemporary reality. Women agree on abstinence from their marital duties. In a press conference, they ask their husbands to stop their daily battle at workplace and cease fire in their job competition and pursuit for promotion, which makes them spend endless hours at work, neglect their wives, miss their children’s upbringing and grow strangers more and more every day. Various family stories join together in a female voice of protest which leaves men to face alone daily nightmares such as housekeeping and helping children with their homework. The solution is found in a forgotten school scrapbook, which reminds all of the burning flame of first love and of the fact that despite their differences, the two sexes are made for each other.
PLAYS
My beloved family, 2013
4 male – 3 female
Like Father Like Son, 2012
2 male – 4 female
A crepe for the gallows, please, 2011
4 male – 3 female
Greek History Lessons, 2009
4 male – 2 female
Lysistrata 2017, 2007
3 male – 3 female
The Championship, 2004
1 male - 1 female
The Will, 2004
9 male – 3 female
So, what?, 2002
3 male – 3 female
Seaweeds, 2017
3 male - 2 female
The name and the grace, 2014
2 female
Swan Lake: The legend, 2017
4 male - 5 female
Lucrezia: Sinner and Saint, 2018
1 female
Lava, 2018
2-4
ESSAYS
Seaweeds by Peny Fylaktaki
Peny Fylaktaki is a playwright with a dynamic presence in the Greek theater over the past fifteen years. She holds a PhD in Theatre Translation and...
