In a poetic landscape somewhere in Greece, dominated by a supernatural fridge and an enormous library, six people – three women and three men – 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’s fragmented identity.
All threads coexist and intertwine: modern Greece with the Byzantine Empire; the Constantinople’s 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.
The play has been translated into French (unpublished, titled Les Remplacantes).
PLAYS
The Price of Resistance in the Black Market, 1968
8 male - 6 female
Dying As a Country, 1978
Flexible
The Beginning of Life, 1995
3 male - 3 female
The Stunning of Animals before the Slaughter, 2000
7 male - 2 women
Settlement Proceedings, 2003
1 male - 2 female
Insenso, 2007
Monologue
Chrysippus, 2008
6 male - 4 female
Touching the Seabed, 2008
7 male - 3 female
The Circle of the Square, 2009
8 male - 3 female
Interest, 2010
4 male - 4 female
Civilization: A Cosmic Tragedy, 2013
5 male - 6 female - 2 children
Evacuation, 2013
5 female, 4 male and 4 chorus women
Phaethon, 2009
3 male - 2 female
In Chorus, 2015
15 (Chorus)
Reaping, 2016
2 male - 3 female
Stroheim, 2015
1 male - 2 female
ESSAYS
DIMITRIS DIMITRIADIS' THEATRE
Translation: Elena Delliou
In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertru...
In Chorus by Dimitris DImitriadis
Dimitris Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963, with a scholarship from the Belgian state, he studied theater and cinema in Brussels at the...
