Directed by: Eleni Efthymiou
Hosted production
Venue: Lazaristes Monastery - Sokratis Karantinos Stage
Dates & Times: Thursday 28, Friday 29, Saturday 30 April, Thursday 5, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 May 2022 at 21:00 & Wednesday 4 and Sunday 8 May 2022 at 19:00
Running Time: 110 minutes (without interval)
Rating: The performance includes nudity. Parental consent required for children under the age of 14.
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About the Performance
What is love? How do we experience love? Does everybody have access to it? Third part of the trilogy “The Other Normal”, born out of En Dynamei Ensemble, a collective of young artists with or without disabilities and their need to openly share their personal stories and explore universal aspects of human individuality, “Horse in Love / The Absurdity of Love”, directed by Eleni Efthymiou, is a performance about love, this special form of ‘disability’ which holds power over people, torpedoes them, electrifies them, drives them mad, sets them ablaze. A performance celebrating spontaneous vitality, sexual impulses, all the senses which have been numbed by a strictly rational perspective on life. A performance breaking through social barriers and hurdles in order to address the absurd, instincts, the forbidden, the imagination, the soul, persevering on the quest for an ultimate and mutual love.
“Horse in love / The Absurdity of Love” has been presented at NTNG’s 4th Forest Festival (2018) and Athens Epidaurus Festival (2019) as well as Poland, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Portugal with the support of “Perform Europe” programme (2022).
Credits
Concept - Artistic direction: Eleni Dimopoulou, Directed by: Eleni Efthymiou, Research and text Eleni Efthymiou & En Dynamei Ensemble, Dramaturgy: Sofia Eftychiadou, Set and costume design: Evangelia Kirkine, Costume design collaborator: Richard Anthony, Lighting designers: Richard Anthony, Vangelis Maroulis, Choreography-Movement: Tasos Papadopoulos, Artistic collaboration: Vitoria Kotsalou, Visual design-Video: Dimitris Zachos, Cinematography: Orestis Psomopoulos, Music: Eleni Efthymiou, Odysseas Gallios, Sound design- Arrangements: Odysseas Gallios, Mask: Martha Foka, Production manager: Richard Anthony, English translation: Elli Marmara, Set construction: Panagiotis Makris, Dimitris Kourdis, Assistant to the director: Vangelis Kosmidis, Giota Kouitzoglou, Assistant to the set and costume designer: Sofia Patsinakidou, Communications manager: Apostolos Liapis
Cast: Maria Dachlythra, Agapi Theodoridou-Kounini, Anna Kalintseva, Theano Konta, Vangelis Kosmidis, Ilias Kougioumtzis, Giota Kouitzoglou, Nikos Kyparissis, Angelos Konstantinou, Loxandra Loukas, Theocharis Bairaktaridis, Giorgos-Zisis Bilionis, Sofia Bletsou, Thanos Nanasis, Michalis Ntolopoulos, Theano Papavasileiou, Charis Serdari, Christos Sioumis, Danai Tsorlini, Panagiotis Tsouroupidis, Maria-Tarsi Chela, Alexandros Chatsios
Piano: Giorgos Cholopoulos
Roula Alavera and Panagiotis Papaioannou appear in videos.
Giota Tembridou’s text “The Convention” is included in the performance.