Women who come face to face with patriarchal power, gender violence, inequalities, stereotypes and prejudices, shoulds and wants, time, self and their limits, who converse with the past, the present, the myth and the history, dreams, hopes and frustrations of their lives, confessing their passions, mistakes, joys and sorrows. On the occasion of her International Women’s Day, March 8we gathered fifteen performances with women’s stories that are performed, during this period, in various theaters in Athens.

  • Io – Her, by Natasha Papandreou at the Television Control Center

A woman, a victim of gender-based violence, acrobats between speech and music, invoking the figure of the persecuted and wandering Ios to find the strength to reach the end of her journey, to bridge the gap, to keep breathing. The Theatrical monologue “Io – She”, presented at the Television Control Center, directed-text-performed by Natasa Papandreou, is the hard, tender, funny, everyday speech of a present-day woman who remembers, bothers, tries, negotiates, thinks, hurts, smiles, gets angry, sets goals.

Representations: Monday 4, 11, 25 March, 1, 8, 15 April 2024 | 21:00
Tickets: From €5. Presale: more.com
Television Control Center, Cyprus 91A, Kypseli, Athens. Tel: 213 00 40 496

  • The Wedding, by Marios Pontikas at the Epi Colonos Theatre

Performance

A young lady is in a hurry. Followed by her successive “rapes” by the family, society, justice, with her defenseless body becoming a field of conflict for those people around her who think they can have rights over it. The hypocrisy leads to the compromise solution of her marriage with her rapist and herself to self-immolation. Wrapped entirely in bandages due to her universal burns, she remains mute to the end, refusing to give in to any consensual participation and becoming the tragic symbol of dignity in the face of any form of rape. “The Wedding” by Marios Pontikas is presented in Epi Colonos, directed by Eleni Skotis. At a time when issues of femicide, unequal and abusive treatment continue to flood the news, at a time when battles for women’s right to their own bodies and self-evident respect for human existence are still ongoing, the work continues to speak out as clear and strong as at the time of its writing, sharp as a sharpened razor.

They play: Ilias Valassis, Stelios Dimopoulos, Maria Katsenou, Athanasia Kourkaki, Eloris Alpanidou
Representations: Tuesday at 21:00 and Sunday at 18:15
Tickets: €10. Presale: more.com
Epi Kolonos, Nafplio 12, 10444 Athens reservations phone 210 5138067

  • Phaedra, from the theater group Medea at the Dromos Theater

Performance

As part of the “Diary”, a four-performance tribute to the poetic theatricality of Yiannis Ritsos by the Medea theater group, “Phaedra” is presented at the Dromos Theatre, curated by texts/poems and directed by Emmanuel G. Mavrou. Yannis Ritsos draws his inspiration from the mythical heroine Phaedra, wife of King Theseus and stepmother of his son Hippolytus, whose destructive power of love brings her to a state of internal struggle between honor and lust. Yannis Ritsos’ Phaedra breaks her silence, with the postponed love confession delivered in the form of a dialogic monologue in which Hippolytos, as the second person, remains silent and uninvolved. A poetic work about female love and real desire, which penetrates the female psyche to trace its manifestations in a state of extreme, internal conflict.

Representations: Every Wednesday at 20:30
Tickets: From €5. Presale: more.com
Theater Dromos, Ag. 25 Melitiou, Athens. Tel. 210 8818906

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