VENUE: Artbox Fargani OPENING: 22 November 2024 RATING: 16+ A co-production of NTNG and Politeia Politismou A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE PLAY Martin and Stevie, married for years, appear to be the perfect family, along with their gay teenage son. Their relationship is built on mutual respect, love, and passion that endures over time. Martin is an architect who has just been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize, and he has also been entrusted with the design of a global city, a project worth billions of dollars. However, at the peak of his career, Martin, who has just turned fifty, falls in love with a goat. It’s a love that is absolute, incredibly intense, and at the same time torturous and incomprehensible, which seems to shake him to his core. After he confides in his journalist friend Ross, everything begins to unravel, and those around him feel as if they are heading towards destruction.
Is it possible for a person to live a perfect life, or is perfection a form of hubris, with downfall being inevitable? How do the forces of nature emerge from the rational plan a person sets for their life? Can instincts be tamed, and how do primal desires strike back? Where does human power over animals stop? How much right does one have to name, define, violate, or take the life of an animal? Edward Albee’s multi-award-winning play “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?”, written in 2000, is a punch to the face of normalcy and the “healthy”, “successful” life of the modern Western individual. It creates cracks through which the irrational forces of nature emerge. Albee places his characters between the ridiculous and the tragic, thus highlighting the limits of human capability and possibility.
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CREDITS Translated - directed by: Pavlos Danelatos, Dramaturgical cooperation: Amalia Kontogianni, Sets - Costumes: Danai Pana, Assistants to the director: Evgenia Kouzeli, Michalis Rizos, Sets - Costumes Assistants: Tania Foustana, Maria Prodromou, Production coordinator: Marily Ventouri, Photographs: Mike Rafail (That Long Black Cloud) Cast: Konstantinos Chatzisavvas (Martin), Lila Vlachopoulou (Stevie), Grigoris Papadopoulos (Ross), Fabricio Muco (Billy)