Moonlighting” by Georges Simenon at the Vassilis and Elizas Goulandris Foundation

On Friday, June 9, the Vassilis and Elizas Goulandris Foundation hosts the theatrical performance “Moonlighting”, based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon, dramatized by fourteen students from the Higher School of Dramatic Art “Technon Ekato” under the direction of Dimitris Kouroumbalis. this is a difficult task. Synopsis: One of Simenon’s best “dark” novels about decadence and madness takes place in Africa, in the French colony of Gabon. A young Frenchman falls in love with the owner of the hotel where a mysterious murder has just taken place. Adele, prime suspect, convinces him to embark on a long and difficult journey inland. The jungle, fever, suspicions and insane jealousy lead the young man to a crescendo of mental disorder that ends in insanity.

9/6, 6:30 p.m. (reserve a seat here)
Vassilis & Elizas Goulandris Foundation – Eratosthenous 13, Athens

The performance “Barren Land” by Rafika Savis and Michalis Argyrou at the Stathmos Theater

100 years since “The Waste Land” and 70 years since TS Eliot’s exodus to the Canadian professor John Peter, when he published his article in the journal Essays in Criticism, arguing that “The Waste Land” is an elegy for his beloved dead , Rafika Sawis and Michalis Argyrou investigate the empty space that is created between desire and reality and create a physical and visual representation of TS Eliot’s poem. One year after the Long Duration performance (4 days) that took place at Metaphor Athens in November 2021, curated by Sozita Gouduna and produced by Greece in USA, LAB FOR ARTS and METHAPHORATHENS, the activist and columnist Vanessa Veneti and the young artist Irida Tsouri, present on the stage of the Stathmos theater scraps of memory and endurance, on the eve of Athens Pride 2023. After the performances, Yiannis Antiochou, translator of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, and the performers, will talk to the audience in a open discussion on the concept of transition.

9/6, 8:00 p.m
Stathmos Theater – 55 Viktoros Ugo, Athens

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