Dimitriadis builds his play around Euripides’ lost play Chryssipus. According to literary research, the ancient play was part of a trilogy that was also lost and nothing but two letters from the first verse have survived. It concerned the abduction of Chrysippus, Pelopas’ young and beautiful son, by Laios
Dimitriadis himself writes:
"Chrysippus is the embodiment of a person with an unparalleled and riveting beauty that masks the true face of the subject. Can this extreme beauty which is not the face but the façade, which masks the true self that remains concealed, be misleading? And, can this other self, the hidden, the invisible one that is difficult to perceive from the start and is nearly always noticed in retrospect – when it is too late –, be nothing more than amorphous, unformed mater, than deformed flesh, than a perverse construct, than a – purely human but outright intolerable – abomination, refined only through an obvious, visible, superficial beauty that exploits this refinement to make way for deception, destruction and horror?”
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...
