1977... 2010. Thirty years since its premiere, Kehaides-Haviara’s work sounds as contemporary as ever. Four men in the province try to promote their favourable candidates in the pre-election period in order to secure personal interests. Four friends get into combat, verbally and physically on the altar of power and the game, outlining their character before us. Diachronic and straightforward, the play shines like a golden mirror of Greek reality. The means of elections may have changed, but the tactic remains the same….a tactic favouring the rats of politics and serving in their interest political ethics, tactics, intrigues, conspiracies, all talk, truthful lies and false truths. Fragile friendships, blackmails and scheme plotting of the party leaders in a game of power sketch a reality that is ever-present in the course of time. A truly powerful piece of theatre, a theatre act which genetically brings us against ourselves. A Greek play with highly folk elements and sense of ‘Greekness’ that escapes social comedy and depicts the events that make up the absurdity of social structure with a clear Greek language as its main tool […] Giorgos Kiourtsidis