2024-04-03 21:04:12
The first Municipal Regional Theater in Greece, which puts on a show fully accessible for people with vision and hearing problems, is the DIPETHE Ioannina, with the show “The Slaves”, which premieres on Thursday, March 28.
Jean Genet’s play is staged for five weeks on the main stage of DIPETHE, at the Kamperio Theater, directed by Yiannis Kontos, who is one of the actors in the show and shares the stage with Aphrodite Anastasiadou and Kika Zachariadou.
The work of the French writer Jean Genet is a one-act drama. The author, who inspired the work by the infamous crime of the Papin brothers, committed in 1933, explores the relationship of ruler – ruled in the social roles of people.
The show will air every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9pm, and every Sunday at 8pm, with Sunday’s show accompanied by audio description for the visually impaired and surtitles for the hearing impaired.
“As a board of directors, we wish the public of the city to watch this particular excellent show, giving impetus and a positive aura to the overall effort we are making for a better result regarding the Municipal Regional Theater of Ioannina”, noted the chairman of the Board of Directors. Georgios Kapsalis, thanking the contributors.
In the director’s look, which does not follow Jean Genet’s essay on how he proposes staging the play, but rather follows Ionesco’s exaggeration, Giannis Kontos was mentioned. “Jean Genet suggests that we must constantly remind the spectator that he is seeing a theatrical convention. We approached it through Ionesco, a contemporary writer of Genet, who argues that theater is swelling. We wanted everything to swell and push like power”, he noted and added that the initiative for the show accessible to people with disabilities was an idea of Christos Tsiouris, whom he thanked.
On the occasion of World Theater Day, he shared an excerpt from the message for the day by the recently Nobel-winning Norwegian writer, playwright and translator Jon Fosse. “Art manages in its wonderful way to combine the completely unique with the universal. It allows us to understand the different, the foreign, as universal. It does this not by flattening out differences and making everything the same, but instead by showing us what is different from us or foreign. War and art are opposites, just as war and peace are opposites – it’s that simple. Art is peace” concluded Mr. Kontos.
Aphrodite Athanasiadou spoke about the difficulty of the play, from the actors’ point of view, to understand the author’s message, but also what they themselves want to convey to the viewers. “Jene has written a text that taught us a lot. What we hold as a team is the “monster”. Sainthood and the criminal, how both the saint and the criminal are the two opposites that finally come together and how these two girls are both,” he noted.
Finally, Kika Zachariadou quoted a passage from Jean Genet’s accompanying essay, in which she states: “Without being able to say exactly what the theater is, I know that it is what I refuse it to be. The description of everyday gestures, as seen from the outside. I go to the theater in order to see myself on stage, represented in a single person or with the help of a multiple person and in the form of a fairy tale. Such as I could not or would not dare to see or dream of me and yet such as I know I am”.
The official premiere will take place on Saturday, March 30, in the presence of the mayor Thomas Bega. The show will be up until April 28. The rest of the contributors are Ioanna Lisgara in the scenography, Vassilis Lagdas in the original music and Orestis Tatsis in the lighting.
Ticket 10 euros and every Thursday 5 euros. Discounted tickets for other categories apply.