From Saturday 12 November and every Saturday until Saturday 21 January 2023 at KE.ME.THE.T
“The Fallen Dervish” is one of the best-known short stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis, due to the inclusion of all these elements that characterize the author’s idiosyncratic language. Papadiamantis’ speech combines the katarevousa with the vernacular, in ways that no other Greek short story writer could touch. For this, after all, the texts of Papadiamantis are impossible to translate into another language. In “Fallen Dervish,” the main body of the text is written in Katharevusa, while the vernacular is used throughout the dialogue, as well as at certain points within the narrative itself.
If one would like to approach the socio-historical context in which Papadiamantis wrote The Fallen Dervish, one should certainly take into account that this short story was published in January 1896, about three months before the first modern revival of the Olympias Games in Athens. Papadiamantis, listening to the transitional period in which Greece was at that time, trying between heterogeneous forces to construct a cultural identity from the ruins of its Ancient past, the Ottoman influence and the gaze of the West, places in his short story a wandering dervish . Showing between the “heavy walls” and the “massive columns of Theseus” an inhospitable stranger, an enigmatic figure who plays the nai and scatters mysterious melodies in Athens, at the time when the underground railway begins to be dug and the pipers go out of their way to sell their salep, Papadiamantis wishes to highlight the multicultural landscape of that period.
The way we approached the theatrical performance of Alexandros Papadiamantis’ short story, “The Lost Dervishes,” was mainly based on foregrounding the author’s language, in an attempt to bring it back to the present, respecting the idioms, atmosphere and rhythm in the which introduces us. For this reason, we decided to strip the stage space to the bare minimum, using natural sound in the voice and musical instruments. Our goal is for the viewer to get out of the speed that characterizes his daily life, and enter another time, another rhythm, another vibration.
Directed by: Giannis Karounis- Despina Zacharopoulou.
Lighting Curation: Miss Zaharopoulou
Interpretation: Yannis Karounis
Yes: Eleni Baili
Crust: Evangelia Stavrou.
KE.ME.THE.T (Koilis 23 A.Petralona)
General Admission: 10 euros
For four people: 8 euros
Unemployed, SEH members, disabled: 5 euros
Special prices for organized groups.
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