Performances

History. Collective memory. A square that renders visible the actions of individuals. A city permanently beset by turmoil.
The National Theatre of Northern Greece commissioned the playwright Akis Dimou to adapt for the stage “Crossroads” by Nikos Bakolas, a landmark novel in postwar Greek literature.
The story unfolds in Thessaloniki through the interwar period, World War Two, the Occupation, the Resistance, Liberation and the Civil War. The main characters belong to three families headed, respectively, by the working-class Fotis, the petit bourgeois journalist Christos and the upper-class Giannis—whose family the orphaned refugee Angela will join. Poetic intermedia referencing episodes from the Byzantine period (the civil strife between the Zealots and the aristocracy, 1342-1349) serve as a distant echo of a popular uprising from the past and underscore the cyclical nature of History.