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BABYLONIA, the new production from the National Theatre of Northern Greece, has gone into rehearsal (10/09/2020)
“Babylonia”, the new production from the National Theatre of Northern Greece, has gone into rehearsal
''Babylonia''
, the new production from the National Theatre of Northern Greece, has gone into rehearsal. The play is adapted and directed by Takis Chrysikakos. Performances start in October at
Lazaristes Monastery – Sokratis Karantinos Stage
.
Nafplio, 1827: an Arvanitis wounds a Cretan in the lodgings of a Chiote and vanishes into thin air. The crime is committed after the successful outcome of the battle of Navarino, when Greeks from many different places has gathered in the hotel to celebrate the victory. A policeman does what he can to shed light on the case, but the different dialects and peculiar turns of phrase muddy the waters and his investigation descends into a fiasco.
Dimitris K. Vyzantios wrote “Babylonia” in 1836. Using the language issue—the hottest topic of his era—as a backdrop, he created a work which put the problem posed by local dialects in the limelight, along with the need for a single Greek
lingua franca
. The author wanted to turn “this most saddening state of affairs” into a comedy, and thereby encourage the audience to prioritize education while highlighting the need for a standardized Modern Greek idiom. Lexical misunderstandings which feed into quarrels are a core feature of Greek popular comedy; in “Babylonia”, they provide the axis around which the text revolves.
CREDITS
Adapted & Directed by: Takis Chrysikakos, Sets-Costumes: Savvas Paschalidis, Music: Dimitris Lagios, Choreography: Giorgos Sofianidis, Lighting: Stelios Tzolopoulos, Music Coaching: Panagiotis Barlas, Assistant to the Director & to the Set-Costume Designer: Tatiana Nikolaidou, Second Assistant to the Set-Costume Designer: Chara Argyroudi, Assistant to the lighting designer: Stathis Froussos, Production Coordinator: Marily Ventouri
Cast: Takis Chrysikakos (Anatolian), Kosmas Zacharof (Policeman), Nikolas Maragkopoulos (Scholar), Kostas Itsios (Peloponnesian), Ilias Bermperis (Chiote), Dimitris Palaiochoritis (Innkeeper), Alexandros Moukanos (Arvanitis), Konstantinos Chatzisavvas (Cretan), Vasilis Papadopoulos (Cypriot), Lefteris Litharis (Police clerk), Thanasis Raftopoulos (Soldier)
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