DIRECTED PLAYS

Φεβρουαρίου 21, 2025

DIRECTED PLAYS

THEATRE PRODUCTION | ATHENS GREECE

2024 | Avaton Theatre | Athens

PIZZA MAN
Darleen Craviotto

STORY
Julie and Alice are two roommates separated by much but united by the need to connect, live and enjoy their age in a large and impersonal city. Two very different women come face to face with a common "enemy". On Friday night they will meet to face their personal challenges. Eddie arrives with a pizza - double cheese, double anchovies - upending their plans and creating a new dimension to their relationship and, to a large extent, the way they perceive their lives.
A contemporary black comedy, intense, fast-paced and with a caustic sense of humour - commenting on everything that modern women have to deal with socially from a different perspective.

Production | Echetlaios NFPO

Cast | Fani Koulouri, Eva Zoubounelli, Thanos Krommydas

Concord Theatricals rights reserved UK
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2408/pizza-man

2024 | Avaton Theatre | Athens

MULTIMEDEA
Pamela Prather

A theatrical performance based on the archetype of Medea, based on true stories.
European Premiere

STORY
Medea, Susan Smith and Fumiko Kimura intertwine their desires, their dreams and their passion for love. They face the obstacle of infidelity and the challenge of jealousy and murder in order to survive their fierce need for love and devotion. Internal conflict and the need for justice give a dark side to the stories and mark them as examples of social devaluation and unworthiness. How will the heroines find their balance in order to get to the essence of their roles' existence and the values they carry ancestrally? How helpful are the stimuli that each culture applies to the heroines' daily lives? How different is Justice's view of the horizons beyond the points of the Western horizon?

It is a theatrical work that has never before been presented to a Greek audience. The main axis is the conflict as a multi-thematic phenomenon of human nature and its derivatives and it concerns in particular the internal conflict. At the same time, the encounter of Greek culture with other cultures reproduces and feeds contemporary creation, emphasizes the importance of syncretism in art and the perfect result that arises when the Greek mythological background and ancient drama combined with real events and fiction serve artistic creation.

Cast | Ioanna Maria Bati, Vasiliki Vlachou, Irini Tsoli

Production
Echetlaios NFPO | Avaton Theatre
Ondine NFPO | Biomechanical Festival 2024

Trailer | https://youtu.be/ve2tHlkzS4w

2023 | Avaton Theatre | Athens

INDIAN SUMMER
Lucy Maurice

STORY
Laura and Steph work in the canteen of a railway station in London. It is Sunday afternoon and they are waiting for their shift to end. They come face to face with their choices, their dreams with the regulars who happen to stop by for a rest and a coffee or a chocolate. Sip by sip, stories and events unfold, top secret and quietly, until the station's announcement of the last train departure for Cambridge is heard.
Platform 6.
Dign, dign, dign.

Cast | Valia Papadaki, Despina Theodoridou

Production | Centre for Contemporary Dramatic Applications NFPO

Concord Theatricals rights reserved UK
https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/11940/indian-summer

2021-22 | Avaton Theatre | 104

Alexandreia Theatre | Athens

PERSEPHONE
Yannis Ritsos

"When we turn our gaze into our minds, apart from the occasional deliberate thoughts, we behold a sight that disturbs us."Thera Niaraponika

STORY

Persephone is a woman who returns to her childhood home to be able to find herself and her relationship with her family and her surroundings.
She shares all her thoughts, memories and dreams. She brings before her eyes all the scenes of her first love, the nature she grew up in, the smell of herbs, the feeling of Spring and Autumn of the change of time and seasons, the symbols of the fruits of the Earth and the Body. Her heart full of longing for life and happiness, she reaches the sense of release with one breath. Her monologue is a colourful fan of sensations and experiences. She seeks life and experience in the Light.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Yannis Ritsos' Persephone is a provocative text that seeks its physical representation in the theatrical setting. The structure of his speech and thought led me to seek the physicality of the archetype and the supernatural of the woman. It is a project of capturing fake puberty, cultural marital culture, girlish shame and physical death. It aptly captures the different experience of the Upper and Lower worlds through the seasons and time. It illuminates Persephone's desire to find herself through her own choices.
The directorial eye is structured in the absolute order of the stages of life and the curiosity hidden in a restless heart, a bright soul. Persephone.

Cast | Eva Zoubounelli

Production
Centre for Contemporary Dramatic Applications NFPO

Princeton University Press rights reserved USA
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691024653/the-fourth-dimensionsrsltid=AfmBOoohfpQOwmO9teHJ4Jw4pyYqM4ThfzR2EbYwD5pHP9RAkGahAGN4

Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BGu23TUFMk

2019 | Avaton Theatre | Athens

REDIAL
Tamar Kamel
European Premiere

STORY
Four young women communicate their struggles and desires. They find themselves in New York's Megalopolis where they experience their daily lives in an intense and adventurous way. They go through many moments. The living with the psychotic cat, the relationship with the married Drew, the audition on Broadway, their therapist, the conversation with their mother and their confession to their best friend.....
Modern, smart, dramatic yet emotional, they find a way to smile and find happiness.
Dominique struggles to find a job on Broadway while Cassie earns a lot of money at a financial firm in Manhattan. Jill, although an actress in the making, wants to have a better life and break free from the tolerance and misery of the Big Apple. Talia, the rock of the group, arranges a meeting to rediscover their friendship. They all communicate with their phones ringing incessantly. Will they continue to waste their energy through the phones or will they choose to meet and rekindle the human connection that the City is subtly eating away at?

DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Tamar Kamel has created a story so complex and intricate that it took a long time to capture it on stage. The pace of her writing is fast and gives the play a cinematic dimension and atmosphere.
The stories of the four young women are contemporary and thoroughly engaging. They speak to each other in codes that only they understand. Their relationships are special and explosive. They ask, they take, they shock but also surprise the viewer with the naturalness and clarity with which they express their issues.
All are smart, scared, bold and human.
Four of a Kind!!

Cast | Athena Hatziathanasiou, Myrto Papa, Eleanna Chrysanthopoulou, Fani Koulouri

Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtakRAc7tuE

2018-2019 | Studio Mavromichali Theatre | Alkmini Theatre

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Oscar Wilde
"A little honesty is a dangerous thing, and too much is absolutely fatal"
Oscar Wilde

STORY
This is essentially the last play by the great Irish playwright, a typical example of English comedy of manners, which has been a great success since its first production.
With piquant comedy and ingenious dialogue, Oscar Wilde puts the characters' attitudes in the spotlight, criticising the hypocrisy and ostentatiousness of the pro-rich Victorian society, achieving a uniquely thunderous plot, in a comedy of situations which, through laughter, pleasantly motivates the audience.
Two young gentlemen cheat the truth to inject some excitement into their drab lives. Mr. Worthing invents a brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull life back in the country and visit the extraordinary Gwendolen in charming London. Mr. Moncrieff decides to take the name of his imaginary brother Ernest and visits Mr. Worthing's house in the country. The characters meet and become involved in a series of amusing events, thus confronting their secret desire to be their earnest and honest selves.

Studio Mavromichali Theatre
Cast | Yannis Economou, Yannis Damalas, Giorgos Styl, Ioanna-Maria Bati, Eva Zoubounelli, Vicky Michalopoulou, Eleanna Chrysanthopoulou and Efthymis Xipolitas

Alkmeni Theatre
Cast | Phoebus Papakostas, Yannis Damallas, George Styl, Ioanna-Maria Bati, Eva Zoubounelli, Vicky Michalopoulou, Eleanna Chrysanthopoulou and Thanos Krommydas

Athens Voice | https://www.athensvoice.gr/politismos/theatro-opera/496556/poia-einai-telika-i-simasia-na-einai-kaneis-eilikrinis/

Teaser 1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtHTr-9_3nI
Teaser 2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHVpDxhipg&app=desktop
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2017 | Studio Mavromichali Theatre | Athens

TROJANS SEASONS
Based on Greek Mythology
Euripides' tragedies
Trojans Women and Hecuba

STORY
In this play, Euripides presents the fate of the women of Troy after their city was sacked. All their men had been killed and their remaining families were to follow the Greeks to neighboring Greece.
The Trojan Women opens with the gods Athena and Poseidon meeting as they seek ways to punish the Greek army for kidnapping Cassandra, eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. Everything unfolds with a dramatic atmosphere but also with humour in the scenes of the protagonists expressing their anguish but also the power they have within themselves.

Cast | Eugenia Sigalou, George Style, Eleanna Chrysanthopoulou, Nikos Vougioukas, Eva Zoubounelli, Eva Angelopoulou

2015 | Fournos Theatre | Athens

ELECTRA
Sophocles

STORY
Electra lives in Argos, mourning her father, Agamemnon, and openly blaming her mother, Clytemnestra, and her husband, Aegisthus, for his murder. Her sister, Chrysothemis, shares her grief and also wishes that their brother, Orestes, would return and take revenge, but she behaves in a much more conventional way, accepting the situation as she sees that she cannot help it.
Orestes, advised by his pedagogue and assisted by his friend, Pylades, returns from Phocis with the intention of taking his place as King.

Cast | Eva Zoubounelli, Viki Michalopoulou, Eleanna Chrysanthopoulou, Ioanna Maria Bati, Efthymis Xipolitas, Thanos Feloukas

2012 | Asomaton Art Space | Athens

PIZZA MAN
Darleen Craviotto
European Premiere

PROJECT
This is, in fact, the only play by the American author, a typical example of crazy comedy with a lot of humour and action.
With a unique plot and interesting changes in the action, Darlene Kravyoto manages to keep the viewer's interest without tiring the audience with the intense dialogue between the characters. Her dynamic over the edgy writing of events creates an atmosphere of exciting madness and absurdity.

STORY
Julie has just been fired and is left in the living room of her house with a six-pack of beer and a bourbon. Her peace and quiet is about to be spoiled by her roommate Alice who will bring her to the edge with her attitude and nagging. The solution will be provided by uninvited guest Eddie who will arrive with a double cheese pizza...no onions. Who will eat the pizza? Who will leave the house? Who will pay the bill?
Eddie holds the solution by secretly eating the anchovies!!!

DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Darleen Craviotto's play highlights the hysteria that people acquire in the rhythm of everyday life in the city. Personalities lose their center through their religions, family beliefs and cultural references. They confuse their roles and impose anxiety and stress within relationships with no boundaries and no logic. It's madness when Julie and Alice meet who will miss the rhythm of Friday, they won't go out for a drink. They will stay in for a strange party that will mirror their uncontrollable behavior. Eddie will save their night and regret his timing of arrival.

Cast | Maria Pigou, Maria Georgopoulou, Thanasis Kousathanas

Teaser | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlsgmcbDSo

2012 | Asomaton Art Space | Athens

NOW, I ASK YOU
Eugene O'Neill
European Premiere

STORY
Lucy is a young woman who loves art, theatre and yoga. On the verge of marriage to Tom Drayton, she discovers that the premise of the Edda Gabler play will help her attract her future husband more powerfully. An accident of a detonation will cause her to lose consciousness and create a chaos of misunderstandings.

Cast | Kassiani Podara, Dimitra Antoniou, Vasiliki Filippou, Elina Alambanou, Thanos Feloukas, Giorgos Kaltsas, Yannis Steriopoulos

Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAGjMNgBF4

2012 | Asomaton Art Space | Athens

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA
Chryssa Spilioti

STORY

Two women will search for their identity through their experiences and choices. They will discover their freedom and happiness. Katie takes risks and Lisa gives in to the impulse of her charms. Both full of humor and dynamism, ready to meet any challenge of
of their lives, "Up with the down, long live the down!"
The story of these two women is told in one hour and ten minutes.
minutes, through 31 vivid images of life, with madness and vitality.

Cast | Ioanna Gerou, Vassia Vasileiou

Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskP4onDFTw

2011 | Paramythia Theatre | Athens

GOODNIGHT MARGARITA
Gerasimos Stavrou

STORY
The Perdikaris family is a large bourgeois family in the Greek countryside at the time of World War II. Fear of survival, profit, deceit and hypocrisy take over the family's facelessness and lead them into a destructive introversion. Margarita, the newest member of the family, will trigger and expose the truth of the family and lead them to total extinction.

Credits
Text | Gerasimos Stavrou
Director | Olga George
Stage environment | Olga George

2004 Greek Cultural Center | New York

THE TRIAL
Costas Efkarpidis

STORY
In a deserted desert chapel two friends wait for the one who invited them with a postcard. No name, no details. As long as the third person in the story does not appear, the two friends try to guess who the person is and what his or her connection to them is. The tangle of waiting unravels scenarios and suspicions. A tragic shared secret that was well hidden in the past climbs towards the Light.
Opening night | New York Chios Federation Cultural Center
Performances | New York Greek Cultural Center Theatre

Credits

Text | Costas Efkarpidis

Direction | Olga George

Set | Anna Gainnetaki

Music | Olga George

Cast | Petros Bournias, Konstantinos Deligiannis, Diodoros Pagoudis, Konstantinos Spanos

Production

Greek Cultural Center, New York

2003 Greek Cultural Center NY
WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA
Chrysa Spilioti
American Premiere

STORY
Two women will search for their identity through their experiences and choices. They will discover their freedom and happiness. Katie takes risks and Lisa gives in to the impulse of her charms. Both full of humor and dynamism, ready to meet any challenge of their lives, "Up with the down, long live the down!"
The story of these two women is told in one hour and ten minutes.
minutes, through 31 colorful images of life, with madness and vitality.

Credits
Text | Chrysa Spilioti
Direction | Olga George
Stage environment | Olga George
Music | Konstantinos

Cast | Ioanna Stavropoulou, Martha Tomboulidou

Production

Greek Cultural Center, New York

2002 Greek Cultural Center | New York

THE WINNER
Stella Lynzeris-Meli

STORY
A series of grotesque situations depict the daily life of a family that has emigrated to America. Everything revolves around the father who tries to pass on all the Greek mentality he left behind to his children. His efforts are in vain as the differences in cultures differ and leave behind only emotional blisters.

Credits
Text | Stella Lynzeris-Meli
Director | Olga George
Set | Anna Giannetaki

Music | Olga George

Cast | Eleni Kundi, Yannis Papanikolaou, George Edwards, Stan Jaffas, Angelos Nakas, Sofia Vasilaki

Production

Greek Cultural Center, New York

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