The professional Inclusive Theatre group THEAMA presents the theatrical play “The Bald Soprano” by E. Ionesco directed by Sofia Stavrakaki with interpreting in the Greek Sign Language and Audio Description.
Aigaleo - 08/09 - 9 pm at Alexis Minotis Theatre
Kifissia - 14/09 - 9 pm at the Courtyard of the Town Hall of Kifissia
FREE ADMISSION
Director’s Note
“The Bald Soprano is not an absurd story, but the validation of human vanity.
In the warmth of the urban home, two couples in name only, a firefighter and a maid find themselves captive in a chaotic whirlwind of fiction, in a kaleidoscope of their arrogant images, literally inventing themselves every waking moment.
The characters sleepwalk, lost in a decomposed linguistic communication system and in the randomness of “family” bonds, without having any idea who is who.
Before Salto mortale, as the clock is ticking down, people of “proper” society swallow perception pills as if they were Holy Communion and remind us of shattered clowns in a tragicomic act of physical and spiritual oppression in the face of the incurable disease of being and not being, of the living dead, of the obedient agents of a political legality that weaves an elaborate spider web to trap anyone believing they can determine their own fate.
And if we assume that death dooms us to an endless desert of dreams without escape, a prockat-life without content or meaning, that cancels the future, how do you hold back?”
Sofia Stavrakaki
CONTRIBUTORS
Author: E. Ionesco
Translation: Sofia Stavrakaki
Director: Sofia Stavrakaki
Original Music: Elias Kourtparasidis
Sets - Costume Design: Thenia Karlafti
Photography: Penny Delta
Production Assistant: Natasa Gatsiou
Curator: Stavrina Polydorou
Communication: Zeta Theodorelou
Casting (in order of appearance):
Mary (maid): Sofia Stavrakaki
Mrs Smith: Olga Nikolaidou
Mr Smith: Panos Zournatzidis
Mr Martin: Vassilis Oikonomou
Mrs Martin: Eli Driva
Fire Chief: Andreas Antoniadis
Interpreting in Greek Sign Language: Eleni Mpatziopoulou, Elena Zorogiannidi
Audio Description: Emmanouela Patiniotaki (ATLAS E.P.)
Production: THEAMA 2023
Duration: 80'