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Orphans
2017-2018, 2018-2019 National Theatre of Northern Greece
Orphans - Dennis Kelly
Repeat: Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer, 05/10/2018
Opening: Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer, 14/04/2018
A house. A family. A couple: a man and a woman. Her brother. Three people who, by the end of the play, will have discovered what boundaries are and how they are crossed.
Director’s Note
What kind of orphanhood is the one that haunts us the most? Which one is more threatening to one’s life? The one of death’s loss and family abandonment or the one of the misdirection of a social system, that first promises and then abandons?
The play explores the personal responsibility and social conscience of each of us, when our family and its interests are threatened directly or indirectly in a society past the verge of moral bankruptcy.
Its protagonists, familiar yet distant, struggle to achieve stability for their family when everything around them is fluid and unsettled. A transgressive act enters their home and family to reveal their rotten foundations. Over an evening, on which the couple is celebrating the coming of their second child—in a strict unity of time and place—their home is torn apart and commitments and ideologies with it. Each of the characters will present their arguments using rhetorical devices and specious ideologies but they will be forced to reconsider and reject them a few moments later. Then, stripped quite bare, they will be sent into the void.
Playwright
:
Dennis Kelly
Translation
:
Koralia Sotiriadou
Director
:
Takis Tzamargias
Sets
:
Edouard Georgiou
Costumes
:
Edouard Georgiou
Music
:
Giorgos Christianakis
Movement consultant
:
Frosso Korrou
Lighting
:
Stratos Koutrakis
Sets assistant
:
Danai Pana
Costumes assistant
:
Danai Pana
Production Photography
:
Tasos Thomoglou
88 performances - 7,929 spectators
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer (14/04/2018 - 03/06/2018)
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies – Foyer (05/10/2018 - 16/12/2018)
SKG: Bridges - Uprising Art and Culture Festival
After the successful production of “Our Class” by Tadeusz Słobodzianek at the National Theatre in Athens in 2016-2017, the well-known director Takis Tzamargias collaborates with the National Theatre of Northern Greece. He directs “Orphans” (2009) by the distinguished Irish writer Dennis Kelly, a powerful contemporary text that raises questions about violence and racism today.
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