The play is an "opera with no music", inspired by Camillo Boito’s novel Senso and Luchino Visconti’s film of the same name.
The play concerns countess Libia Serpieri’s passionate love for the Austrian sergeant Franz Mahler. The countess falls desperately in love with Franz, but he forsakes her. Blinded by hatred, she betrays him, denouncing him for desertion. Franz is arrested and led to the firing squad. Betrayal remains eternal, just as the heroine remains immortal. Countess Libia Serpieri is a remnant of history; having lived through the 19th and 20th centuries, she reaches the 21st mentally exhausted.
It is a play about the body; about identity, reason, mortality, permeability, elimination…
The play has been translated into French.
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...
