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ALL TOGETHER WE CAN open the curtain and invite you to Theater POINTthe dates:
- Saturday, December 2, at 9:00 p.m
- Sunday, December 3, at 8:00 p.m
- Saturday, December 9, at 21:00 and
- Sunday, December 10, at 8:00 p.m
for the play”Sevas Khanoum” with only the electronic offer of €10.
The money will be allocated for the purposes of ALL TOGETHER WE CAN.
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A few words about the show…
Konstantinos Rigos breathes new life into the legendary Sevas Hanoum, with Konstantina Michael in the role of the legendary singer
From October 27
Theater POINT
George Chronas – Respect Hanum
The story of a 50’s singer
“Every story is a path carved in mind and body.
With chalk on the floor”
Konstantinos Rigos
“The story is mine, Seva’s, Seva Hanoum, Sevastis Papadopoulou: I am a Pontian. I am from the Black Sea, from Samsuda. I was born in Macedonia. I’m Macedonian! I was born in 1931, on a Wednesday, on the birthday of the Virgin Mary, September 8, at 9 in the morning.”
THE Konstantinos Rigos returns to Sevas Khanum, the legendary form of folk song. Her fascinating life will come alive from October 27 at the Simeio theater through a monologue based on the torrential interview she gave to the poet George Chronas.
The project and the performance:
In 1983 one of the most beautiful popular voices of the Greek discography, the Regards Khanum, tells the story of her life in an old refugee house in Thessaloniki, on the tape recorder of the poet and publisher Giorgos Chronas. The “amazon” – as she wanted to be called – of the rebetiko song talks to him about her passionate love with Stelios Kazantzidis, their near-marriage, about Pontus, post-war Athens, Tsitsani, Bellos, but also about illness and playing with death.
These extensive testimonies o George Chronas made them into a one-act play (published by Odos Panos publications), which then Konstantinos Rigos “transformed” into a theatrical performance dedicated to this unique priestess of folk song (initially the show was presented in 2012 for two seasons at Angelon Vima and Polis Theatre).
Now, o Konstantinos Rigos revisits and reintroduces in his own unique way this legendary form of Greek song with the actress Konstantina Michael to reprise her role as Sevas Khanum.
THE Respect Hanum she was born on September 8, 1931 in Kokkinogeia, Drama and died in May 1990. She became famous singing oriental songs. Sevas Hanum was baptized by Jimis the Fat, the owner of the legendary tavern, because he wanted a name to match the oriental songs he sang. In fact, he advertised her in the newspapers of the time as “the new discovery of Sevas Hanum, the beauty of Peran”.
Her stormy love affair with Stelios Kazantzidis left an era. Although they were engaged and sang together in stores, they never collaborated on a record label.
Stelios Kazantzidis himself in the book “I exist” (Libani publications), states: “The one who drank too much and who definitely wanted to make me a hashish was Sevas Khanum. This fucaria had become a passion for her. He couldn’t sing if he didn’t drink. While she had a beautiful voice and was a great artist, she thought that without that she was worth nothing. That’s why my collaboration with Sevas Khanum didn’t last long. I saw that it would destroy me if we continued.”
Giorgos Chronas for Sevas Hanoum:
In an old refugee house, George Chronas met Sevas Hanoum, on May Day 1983, in Thessaloniki:
“She appeared in front of me and was like a woman’s face in a painting by Dimitris Laletas. She wore a thong and was clean, rare.
I was dealing with a spirit of the muses, of the fate of people who want to talk to you about the glory, the past, the future; the destruction that they are steadily marching towards. With a deep voice, amidst the smoke, next to the coffee she served me, she talked to me, several nights, about her life, her passion for rebetiko.
The 50’s, 60’s, 70’s passed in front of me. Ninou, Bellou, Tsitsanis, Kaldaras, Bithikotsis… her interlocutors. Northern Greece, the people of the song, Omonia square, Vathis all about the song, its loss.
Her loves, Kazantzidis, his mother, their near-marriage, her illness, her suffering, the game with death. A genuine poetic person was opening his heart to me. And I made his portrait among fires and debris of a life that flows indifferently leaving its creatures aside.
In a grave deep, without pity.
Strong and alone.
Holding from Samsunta of Pontos, born in Kokkinogeia of Drama.
And from there to Thessaloniki and from there to Athens.
Little girl.
Unmarried, with only capital the holy fury of the rebetiko.
On stage as in life.
The barren love affair with Kazantzidis.
The crazy adventure with a famous song without an end.
Vathi, Omonia, Tzimis the Fat, Triana of Heila.
The flowers of evil.
Prohibited substances.
The songs he didn’t say.
The contracts he didn’t sign.
The Amazon saint, Sevas Hanum, tells her whole life tonight to the young journalist who has come to meet her, but surrenders unarmed to the storm of her mind.
Konstantina Michael for Sevas Hanoum
Sevas Hanum- The story of a singer of the 50’s
“A one-act play by Giorgos Chronas about the life of Seva Hanoum. A life of glory, money, fun, love, but also illness, poverty, the oblivion of the artist. The rise and fall.
He came from Pontus. She was born in Drama and in 1940 during the Occupation she came with her family to Thessaloniki, where she started singing as a little girl in various centers before finally making the decision to go down to Athens – as she was advised – to become big and famous!
She was a fatal and dynamic woman. In Athens she started from Omonia and with her dynamism and temperament she managed to sing on the big tracks with the biggest names of the golden age: Tsitsani, Papaioannou, Chioti, Kaiti Gray, Poly panou, Sotiria Bellou and finally with her great love Stelios Kazantzidis.
A tour of the nightclubs of Athens, amidst the madness and passions, but above all the rebetiko song and folk music that raised Greece and made it forget”.
Performance ID
Text: George Chronas
Direction – adaptation: Konstantinos Rigos
Interpreted by Konstantina Michael
In the role of journalist, Jason Chronis
Press Office – View: Maria Tsolaki
Production: TECHNICIAN
Theater POINT
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