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Da
“DA” by Hugh Leonard
Translation-Dramaturgy-Direction:
Dimosthenis Papadopoulos
“DA”
, the award-winning play of the Irish theatre author Hugh Leonard, after its outstanding success, its sold-out performances and the thrill and smile it gave to the audience of Thessaloniki, now returns. The twentieth-century’s bourgeois social and familial environment in Ireland comes to life once again at the Society for Macedonian Studies Theatre, through Dimosthenis Papadopoulos’s translation, dramaturgy and direction.
With English surtitles every Friday (21.00) - Duration: 90min
A son returns to the city he was born for his father’s funeral and relives his past life.
Da
(a diminutive for Daddy) is confronted with his son, Charlie. The father figure, the children’s relationship with the parents, the mistakes of the past, the loss, the price of adulthood, the cruelty that many times conceals love, childhood through the distance of time.
The play became known in Greece in the 80’s through Manos Katrakis’s theatre group.
With Kostas Santas as Da.
CREDITS/ Translation−Dramaturgy−Direction:
Dimosthenis Papadopoulos, Set: Stavros Litinas, Costumes: Ilenia Douladiri, Music: Dimosthenis Papadopoulos, Lighting: Sakis Birmpilis, Assistant Director: Stefania Vlahou, Second Assistant Director: Chrysanthi Tsolaki, Photography: Tasos Thomoglou, Production Coordinator: Filothei Eleftheriadou
CAST
/ Orestis Chalkias (Young Oliver), Maria Chatziioannidou (Mrs. Prynne),
Nikos Kapelios (Oliver), Dimitris Kotzias (Drumm), Lilian Palantza (Mother), Christina–Artemis Papatriantafyllou (Mary), Anastasis Roilos (Young Charlie), Kostas Santas (Da), Dimitris Siakaras (Charlie now).
Press
A performance with love and respect for the text and for what it looks at... It was perfect for the central stage of a state theatre and reminded the audience of a charming and moving text. It was loved by its contributors and the public.
Olga Sella,
artplay.gr
It is a joyful performance, simple but comprehensive. “Da” is the first syllable of “daddy” and the Irish award-winning author, Hugh Leonard, made it a title in a play that, since 1972, has been celebrated with glory, honour and praise throughout the world.
Pavlos Lemontzis,
kavalawebnews.gr
A play made out of the deep humanitarian tradition of the long-suffering Irish people, “Da” “speaks”, during the 90-minute performance in the NTNG, about the bourgeois social and familial environment of the twentieth century in Ireland, about England, the country that conquered Ireland and which his father hated so much, about the life in the birthplace of a child who faces the situation from the beginning, as an adult now, in an almost psychoanalytical and redemptive way.
Vicky Charisopoulou,
Athens-Macedonian News Agency
“Da” is deep, gut-wrenching and so true! Dimosthenis Papadopoulos reached its core with soul − I laughed and I teared up! What a nice gift − made with care and excellent directorial ideas! Kostas Santas, as if he was born for this role − with humour, power, an enviable embroidery– is great on the dramatic climax, too! Da, his greatest victory.
Vasilis Bouziotis,
enikos.gr
The National Theatre of Northern Greece takes us to Ireland and invites us, as spectators, to the stage of the Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies, to surrender ourselves. “Da” is directed by Dimosthenis Papadopoulos, while Kostas Santas gives himself to the role of Da.
Eleni Skarpou, Dimokratia
“Da”, an ode to the relationship of father and son... A text seemingly simple, yet capable of touching every viewer’s truth or at least the truth of those who, with an open soul, will follow the journey through Charlie’s memory.
Christina Chalkia,
TFCmagazine
It’s not an exaggeration to say that this role seems to have been written to be played by this actor. The choreography of the play and the director’s subtractive scenic approach give the cinematic sense of a close-up of faces, lives, characters, feelings, thoughts and events. Thus, “naked” on stage, Kostas Santas, through this interpretation, strikes directly into the heart of the more distant, until that moment, viewer.
Maria Mavridou,
atrandpress.gr
A confessional torrent which, through humour, pain of loss and recrimination, confirms a lasting fatherly love. The stage is imaginarily divided into the blue sky of the giant screen and the sea sounds that make up a naval landscape, that of Ireland.
Giota Konstantinidou,
parallaximag.gr