GHOSTS
based on Henrik Ibsen’s play
the new project of blindspot theatre group
17, 18, 19/7 2018
Athens & Epidaurus Festival
The main characters of Ghosts attend the opening of the Alving Foundation, launched in honour of the late Captain Alving. The foundation is to be donated to the city. We are watching the characters the day after the original play’s denouement, standing on the threshold of an institution, a symbol of personal and social fulfilment.
Ibsen’s classic drama is reimagined as a crossover between the original play and new, original texts, shedding lights to hidden aspects of the characters. Their past, their inner landscape and their complicated relationships are illuminated in a startling, almost paradoxical manner. The main characters, Manders, Alving, Oswald, Regina, are confronted with their fears, desires, dreams, nightmares, their personal and social ghosts. Will the characters finally be able to step into the light or will darkness remain their inevitable destination?
Adaptation – Dramaturgy: Yota Argyropoulou, Michalis Konstantatos (blindspot theatre group)
Direction: Michalis Konstantatos
Text: Orfeas Apergis, blindspot theatre group
Dramaturgical collaboration: Panagiota Konstantinakou
Set design: Kostas Pappas
Costume design: Angelos Bratis
Lighting design: Giannis Fotou
Original music: Giorgos Poulios
Movement: Iris Karayan
Constructions – Props: Vasilis Sakkis
Assistant to the set designer: Anastasia Lambrou
Assistant to the directors: Olga Kapagioridou, Maria Michailidi, Anthia Balis, Giannis Batsis
Antonis Myriagos appears in a video
Vocal coaching: Eleni Dalachani
Cast: Yota Argyropoulou, Pinelopi Tsilika, Nikolas Papagiannis, Yorgos Frintzilas
Also featuring: Eleni Dalachani, Eleni Alexopoulou, Vaso Asikoglou, Athina Velimvasaki, Tereza Vrontisi, Vladimiros Giannakakos, Myrto Giannakouri, Natalia Zikou, Spyridoula Kalavrytinou, Konstantina Kaltsiou, Stavros Kastrinakis, Grigoria Oikonomaki, Silia Paliothodorou, Efi Preka, Rafail Sidiropoulos, Sylvia Trivyza, Katerina Fahouri, Despoina Chalkoroka
Production manager: Vasilis Panagiotakopoulos
The performance incorporates reworked excerpts from works by Shakespeare, Ingmar Bergman, Simone de Beauvoir and Dimitra Kationi
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