“Playmaker”: The famous psychological thriller from October 22 at “Micro Gloria”

Rehearsals for the famous psychological thriller continue unabated “Playmaker” of Hollywood star Gardner McKay who brings to the stage Little Gloria from October 22 Alexandros Cohen, with Rafika Savis and Giorgis Partalidis.

This great work is being staged for the first time in Greece.

It is a dramatic masterpiece of high intensity, which has been loved and highly praised by audiences and critics in all cities of the world, while it has fascinated Brian De Palma and in recent years its film adaptation with Colin Firth as the protagonist has been discussed.

See here the first photos from the preparation of the show and get your tickets in time at https://www.viva.gr/tickets/theater/paixnidopoios

The police neuropsychologist Mont Christopher she lives alone, isolated in the hills of Los Angeles. Lately, she has been obsessed, to the point of obsession, with an unprecedented, inscrutable case that she has undertaken.

A paranoid man, unidentified, carries out serial attacks on the unsuspecting women of the town, in a way that is terrifyingly paradoxical. He doesn’t kill them. He’s not in a hurry. He seduces his victims, leads them voluntarily to bed and finally immobilizes them with a lobotomy. Turning them into his eternal, useless toys.

Maud is confronted with the brutality of these crimes almost daily. She is the one who has taken care of his victims.

On an otherwise quiet evening, a likeable young man knocks on her door, asking for some help, as he’s stranded at her place because his bike broke down.

The famous psychological thriller “Playmaker”, written in 1984 by the Hollywood star Gardner McKay, first in the form of a best-selling novel and then as a popular play, is staged for the first time in Greece, directed by Alexander Cohen and starring Rafika Sawis and George Partalidis.

A dramatic piece of high intensity, which has been loved and highly praised by audiences and critics in all the cities of the world where it has been performed. This is the work that fascinated one of the most important American directors of the last decades, Brian De Palma, and in recent years there has been talk of a film adaptation of the novel starring Colin Firth.

They wrote about the project

“Deeply disturbing and utterly timely. A classic mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting to guess…”
All Things Considered, National Public Radio

“A tremendously powerful work”
The Washington Post

“Excellent. Immersive. Exciting. The most exciting drama of the year. It brings theater back to what theater means”
LA Herald Examiner

“This has got to be the most intense game between a man and a woman ever written.”
Axxess Magazine

“A writing wrought by a very steely spirit.”
The Daily Express

“This play by Gardner McKay is chilling…it literally froze my blood.”
The Daily Mail

Author’s note

If there’s one thing this play is about, it’s our infinite ability to manipulate one another, our exquisite gift of lying. It is our ability to believe any truth that suits us. It is our automatic power to forgive; our need to move on. It is compromise, our willingness to side with our executor. It is our moral anarchy, the loss of our instincts and our inner beliefs about our existence. It is our ability to unthinkingly absorb terror; to believe that a crime is only really a crime when it happens to us – nothing else makes us angry. It is about our horrible crimes: not that they happen, but that we get used to them and move on.

Gardner McKay

A few words about Gardner McKay

George Cadogan Garder McKay (1932-2001) was born in Manhattan, New York. At the age of fifteen, he published his first story. He has been awarded several awards for his writing work, including The Drama Critics Award and the Sydney Carrington Prize. He won three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for writing plays. All his works have been staged and continue to be staged with great success in theaters all over the world. His works have also been broadcast at the BBC Radio Theater in London. He taught playwriting at UCLA and screenwriting at USC, the universities of Alaska and Hawaii. The Playmaker – first as a novel, then as a play and currently in production for a feature film by Brian De Palma – is his most popular and beloved work.

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Translation-Direction: Alexander Cohen
Sets-Costumes: Yiannis Arvanitis
Lighting: Nikos Vlasopoulos
Assistant director: Nina Sotiropoulou

Stage Wrestling: Chris Radanoff
Photos: Patroklos Skafidas
Graphics: Karolos Porphyris
Production: Daydreams & Lineculture

Actors: Rafika Savis – Giorgis Partalidis

*Thanks to: Vasilios Athanasakis (Marionettes) & Vaso Avgeropoulou

Performances: Saturday 21.15 & Sunday 20.15

Tickets from 15 euros

Presale: https://www.viva.gr/tickets/theater/paixnidopoios

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