Traveling players
A dark comedy
6 & 7 Aug 2022 • Xenokrateion Archaeological Museum of Messolonghi
22 Oct 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 • ELER Theatre, Athens GR
In September of 1922, an American citizen charters “Mimosa”, the ship that will transfer 2,000 Greeks from Smyrna to Piraeus. Three traveling players are among the passengers. A mysterious burlesque comes to life on the deck of “Mimosa”.
The traveling players unfold their performance through storytelling, singing and dancing, challenging the boundaries of tragic and comic. In the middle of the sea, they take us on a journey through the depths of human soul, in its attempt to survive, to find its roots, to attest, to smile, to trust again.
Fiction braids with documentary, in this dark comedy, dedicated to the multiple adventures of the Catastrophe of Asia Minor. Drawing material from the dark impasses of the National Schism, the play reconstructs, in a fictive context, heroes of the period who fought for the uncertain future of integration.
Creative team
Direction, original text, movement: Eleana Georgouli
Music: Thanos Kosmidis
Lighting design: Nikos Sotiropoulos
Sets, costumes: George Trikaliotis
Video: Alexis Zafeirakis
Production: ANOIGMA & RETROSPECTIVA
Cast
Gerasimos Gennatas
Giannis Askaroglou
Maria Floratou
