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"TEMPTATION”
VASSILIKO THEATRE - FOYER
Opening: Friday, July 12, at 21.00

The National Theatre of Northern Greece presents "Temptation" a play by Grigorios Xenopoulos, directed by Enke Fezollari, in the Foyer of the Vassiliko Theatre. The premiere will take place on Friday, July 12, 2013. The role of Calliope will be played by Jenny Theona.

A few words about the play
Calliope, a young chambermaid, disrupts the life of the haut-bourgeois family Georgiadis. One April, she comes into their homes and their lives, and leads into temptation and acts of infidelity all the males of the family and beyond.

It’s a play about the temptations of the flesh and male infidelity, a play about the game of sex and the trials of spousal relations, where love comes out a winner.
And about Temptation itself, which starts a new life.
But it is also a play with a political complexion, about the poor and the rich, about "those fated to work for people", and the beauty of solidarity.
Grigorios Xenopoulos, a superb analyst of the soul, dissects without moralizing all aspects of his multiple sexual triangles: from the root of the trouble to the man who fatefully succumbs, to the one – male or female – who suffers from betrayal born of infidelity.
The heroes become victimizers and victims, they exchange roles, experience happiness and unhappiness, cry, laugh, love, hate, forgive, betray and are betrayed, assert claims or resign them, bow down before their fate or challenge it, but no one says no to the wonderful game of Eros. No one.

CONTRIBUTORS
Playwright: Grigorios Xenopoulos
Director: Enke Fezollari
Sets - Costumes: Alexia Theodoraki
Movement: Anastasia Theofanidou
Music supervision: Enke Fezollari
Assistant Director: Giannis Sampsalakis
Production: Christina Zacharopoulou

Cast (in alphabetical order): Mary Andreou (Polyxena, Thodora), Iphigenia Deligiannidi (Cleo Georgiadis), Thanassis Dislis (Kriton Georgiadis), Jenny Theona (Calliope), Giannis Karamfilis (Nikos Papastamou), Andreas Kontopoulos (Kosmas), George Papageorgiou (Narrator-Mitsos), Asteris Peltekis (Georgios Drogkas), Spyros Sarafianos (Menelaus Georgiadis), Evi Sarmi (Polixeni Drogka), Polixeni Spyropoulou (Angela Papastamou).

PERFORMANCES
Opening run: Friday, July 12, to Sunday, August 4, Wednesday to Sunday at 21.00
No performances will take place from August 5-18.
Performances will continue from Wednesday, August 21 through Friday, August 30, Wednesday to Friday at 21.00


TICKET PRICES:
General admission: €10
Reduced price admission: €8
Family: €10
Unemployment card: €5 for all performances
Thursdays: €8
OGA tickets for 2013-2014 will be accepted

Presale

• Ticket offices and NTNG website www.ntng.gr
• Ticket offices of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (Aristotle Square)
• Viva: Tel. 11876 & www.viva.gr
• Public Stores in Thessaloniki, www.public.gr (24 Tsimiski St. – 33 Mitropoleos St. & Mediterranean Cosmos Shopping Centre)
• Seven Spot Shops

Ticket office hours:
Society for Macedonian Studies (2 Ethnikis Aminis St.): Tuesday-Sunday: 9:30 a.m. – 17.30 p.m.
Vassiliko Theatre (White Tower Square): Tuesday-Sunday: 9.30 a.m. – 21:30 p.m.

Reservations – Information: tel. 2315 200200 & www.ntng.gr