ALICE by Lewis Carroll
movement direction
directed by Grigoris Hatzakis
BIOS Exploring Urban Culture (Athens)
Alice, now towards the end of her life, narrates the adventure she experienced as a little girl. The magical wonderland she visited when deciding to follow a hurrying rabbit, wearing a vest and a watch, down its rabbit hole. A world that seems to follow her still, in her attempt to come to terms with her reality. It grows, it shrinks, but mostly it grows. Lewis Carroll's literary masterpiece, Alice in Wonderland, is transformed into a multimedia show of magical realism, illuminating fundamental questions through the prism of an eternal search in the space-time of existence.
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HOW A PLACE BECOMES A PERSON
movement direction
directed by Marilli Mastrantoni
dramaturgy by Evi Prousali
Communitism (Athens)
A Performance attempting to construct “bridges of intimacy” with what is considered distant and different... With playfulness, humor, and occasionally irony, we form a decentralized community and present the Western Civilisation through the eyes of those who experience it under conditions of forced expatriation.
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THE SIEGE OF ELUSIA by Christos Economou
movement direction
directed by Marilli Mastrantoni
Theatre P.K. (Athens)
Exploring the Utopia in the 21st century. A consolation for the dystopian times we're living in... Result of the European Project EXTENDED UNIVERSE, a collaboration with organizations and artists from London (Boundless Theater), Copenhagen (Teater Grob), Barcelona (Sala Beckett) and Athens (ENTROPIA).
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PIECE OF SILK by Jennie Buckman
movement direction
directed by Tania Azevedo
The Hope Theatre (London)
Piece of Silk was inspired by the Arabian Nights and draws on the shocking stories of women survivors of domestic violence and enforced marriage.
This mixed media piece focuses on the concept that storytelling is a matter of life and death. Giants collaborated with Southall Black Sisters (SBS), Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) and artists from Not Shut Up, a collective for ex-prisoners, to inform the story.
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THE SIGNAL MAN by Simon Blake
adapted from the short story by Charle's Dickens
movement direction
directed by Tania Azevedo
Vaults Festival (London)
In Dickens’ tale of mortal terror, a walker befriends a signal-man who is plagued by ghostly apparitions. A spectre of guilt haunts this lonely stretch of North Eastern railway, revealing the dark history of its old Victorian tunnels.
Celebrating 150 years since its first publication, Vault 2016 presents Simon Blake’s chilling new adaptation of The Signal-Man.
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HELLO AGAIN by Michael John LaChiusa
movement direction
directed by Tania Azevedo
The Hope Theatre (London)
The depths of sexuality and sexual attraction are here for the asking in this musical fantasy suggested by Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde.
As though seen through the lens of a combination time machine and bawdy, old-time kinescope, Hello Again criss-crosses beds and jumps from decade to decade, intimately examining the painful secrets that drive characters into each other’s arms and towards the bruising effects of reckless passion.