Performances

“Medea” by Βost
DIRECTED BY: Evi Sarmi

VENUE: Garden Theatre
OPENING: 3 & 4 July 2025

The comedy of the summer!

With the support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Bost’s Medea is a Medea who sees a psychiatrist, who helps Euripides write his tragedy, who cares for nuns on the run, who plays golf, puts horny monks in their place, and when words don’t cut it, uses her knife instead—which she wields with equal skill!

A hilarious performance of Bost’s wonderful, caustic and ever-relevant satire

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE PLAY
Bost’s Medea is the Medea we know from elsewhere. The princess who left her native land, who murdered her brother, who married Jason... And the play has the trappings of a tragedy: a Chorus and a Nurse and Euripides himself. Only in this play Medea is also merciful. She takes pity on the nun Polyxeni, who shows up at the palace to tell us her trials and tribulations. She worries about the future of her children, who need an education and to get their heads round Ancient Greek. But somewhere in among the excess of motherly love and the occasional stab of jealousy for the beautiful nun, things get out of hand. And the familiar tragic end suddenly seems unavoidable.

Written in 1993, Mentis Bostantzoglou’s “Medea” is a brilliant comedy which uses satire and a unique sense of humour to comment on the attitudes and mores of modern Greek society. Taking the myth of Medea and the premise of Euripides’ tragedy as its starting points, the disconnect between its tales and eras leads the plot in absurd directions in a masterfully-written lambasting of the ignorance, emptiness and evils of society. Bost’s theatrical language breaks grammar rules, uses fifteen-syllable lines, embraces misunderstandings and revels in misspellings to create his unique style.
 

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CREDITS
Direction: Evi Sarmi
Dramaturgical processing: Rodi Stefanidou
Sets – Costumes: Danai Pana
Music: Giannis Zouganelis
Movement – Choreography: Anastasia Kelesi
Lighting: Stelios Tzolopoulos
Μusic coaching: Panagiotis Barlas
Assistant to the director: Mary Andreou
Assistant to the choreographer: Antonis Gklavas
Production coordination: Alexis Tzimas

CAST
Marianna Avramaki (Chorus)
Lili Adraskela (Chorus)
Antonis Antonakos (Euripides)
Chrysa Zafeiriadou (Messenger)
Pantelis Kanarakis (Medea)
Giannis Karamfilis (Jason)
Yro Loupi (Nun)
Mara Malgarinou (Chorus)
Grigoris Papadopoulos (Monk)
Giannis Tsemperlidis (Nurse)
Nikos Tsoleridis (Fisherman)