2024-06-07 00:13:31
Christina Matthaiou’s unique work “vaiza” {ETYM. arvan < woman, daughter} is hosted by "Scene 125" (inside KE.PA.VI.) for 3 performances, on Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June, at 9.15 pm.
Drawing from Pantelis Boukala’s works “My Speechless” and “Christ within the Snows”, and impressed by the legend of La Loba, as depicted in Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s guide “Girls Operating with the Wolves”, Christina Matthaiou , in her first directorial enterprise, composes a present that speaks of the facility of femininity. The facility to interrupt, to reveal, to be imperfect, to vary, to outline your self, to really feel, to precise, to stay!
Mani, mid nineteenth century. A younger girl, Milia, is murdered by her father and brothers with a purpose to wash away the household’s disgrace, since she is “damaged” on the primary evening of her marriage ceremony. She is buried alive in a stone pit on the entrance of the village. Solely her head stays out of the soil till she dies. Now Milia has a voice. Now La Loba is giving her the possibility to inform her story. To be reborn.
With out limiting itself to describing yet one more femicide, the play explores the angle of every of these concerned. Six individuals who’ve by no means spoken, captive to social dictates and ritual, now communicate. Drawing materials from the Greek custom and the general European and Balkan historical past, the present speaks about right this moment.
The roles are carried out by Nausika Korialou, Lina Lazaris, Marialena Skaroni and Yolanda Sofouli. Voice of La Loba Krina Dalakli.
The music of the efficiency is by Myrtos Stylos and was written within the musician’s studio, in a village outdoors Ioannina.
The period of the present is 80 minutes and through its period strobe gentle, smoke machine and incense are used.
Tickets value 15 euros and 13 euros decreased. Pre-sale of tickets from the Skala Cafe-bar, “Anagnostis” & “Hartex” bookshops and on-line Reservation numbers 2651312830, 6945533242 & 6983749922.