A video teaser worthy of its cinematic reputation has the famous psychological thriller “Playmaker” written by Hollywood star Gardner McKay and transferred to the stage of Mikro Gloria from this Saturday, October 22, directed by Alexander Cohen, with Rafika Sawis and Giorgis Partalidis .
See in just 20 seconds the absolute horror and dark atmosphere of the whole project:
“Playmaker” is a great work that 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.
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Gardner McKay
Game maker
Premiere
October 22
LITTLE GLORIA
Hippocrates 7 | 2103642334
Direction
Alexander Cohen
They star
Rafika Savis & Giorgis Partalidis
Police neuropsychologist Maude Christopher 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 this work is about anything, it’s our immense ability to manipulate each other. The play talks about our wonderful gift of lying. It speaks of the awesome power of this gift we have been given. It speaks to our ability to believe any truth as long as it suits us. The play speaks to our tremendous power to forgive and our need to move on. It speaks to the compromise we are prepared to make, our incredible willingness to sleep with our executioner. It’s basically about our moral iniquity: a crime is only a crime if it doesn’t happen to us. If it happens to someone else, we just turn the page.
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 the production stage of a feature film by Brian De Palma – is his most popular and beloved work.
ID CARD
Direction – Translation: Alexander Cohen
Scenes: Yiannis Arvanitis
Lighting: Nikos Vlassopoulos
Stage Wrestling Instruction: Chris Radanoff
Photos: Patroklos Skafidas
Graphics: Karolos Porphyris
Assistant director: Nina Sotiropoulou
Production: Daydreams & Lineculture
Actors: Rafika Savis – Giorgis Partalidis
*Thanks to: Vasilios Athanasakis (Marionettes) & Vaso Avgeropoulou
Representations
Saturday 21.15 & Sunday 20.15
Tickets from 15 euros
Presale
Presale https://www.viva.gr/tickets/theater/paixnidopoios
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