Mimi Dennis at skai.gr: Theater is in danger if man disappears

Interview with Stefanos Nikolaidis

‘I can get a empty space and to call him scene. A man she walks in this empty space, while someone watches. And that is all that is enough to become one theatrical practice“, Once upon a time the insurmountable Peter Brookeperhaps his last universal teacher Theater.

Indeed, if you think about it, the theater is the highest artexactly because it is human and direct. Because it is the most direct way with whom man can to share with them around the feeling of How is it to be human…

On the occasion of World Theater Daytoday March 27the Mimicone of the most acclaimed actresses – directors and definitely one of the last Stars to boardspeaks to skai.gr and shares her own thoughts and concerns about Sixth art, to one Interviewer – Soul Deposit.

“Theater is the only anthropocentric art, so it never fell”

“To tell you the truth, I don’t see today’s day. I am already 40 years in the theater and celebrate Theater every day And every time I play, “he starts telling us. ‘I celebrate the joy that gives viewers, the joy her creationthe joy it gives to us everyday. So no, I don’t have a specific day that I celebrate, “as he explains to us.

And from the festive shade it goes directly to the deep, as she has always hated the superficial. So, he talks to us about the role of theater in 2025.

‘Every time a new art was invented, the cinema first, the TV after, the Internet Afterwards, there was always the fear of what will happen to the theater. The theater never fell, because the theater is the only anthropocentric art. The painter is alone and one of his work will enjoy it yourself and a book will enjoy on your own, but the theater requires participation. They are the actors on the one hand, the roles, and the other role is the viewer, ”he explains.

“Because people always have the need of contact, what Tiktok and to come out, what Instagramit’s always different when you meet each other. This proves this theater and I think it will never be in danger and never exist. Since ancient times it is still as possible. “

“Before young people see” Smyrna “, they thought it was a boring chapter of history”

“Today, that the whole environment is so foggy that societies are so confused, that we see how many wrongs are made starting from America and ending anywhere, theater has a character: entertainment, lawsuit. Because the viewer will not easily sit down to read 10 pages of violence against women. Will read one. Because we are in the age of image and fast. “

“But in the theater when you see such a social issue, you will think about it, you will discuss it with your friends by leaving and I saw it in practice and the issues of historical. That is, how many children were sitting to read at school Asia Minor Destruction; Few, not to say any, “as he typically notes and confesses:

‘But when I uploaded it to theater and it was done and film where was played worldwideare the messages that I got from young people. Those who were foreigners told me that they had no idea that this had happened, while those who were Greeks thought it was a boring chapter of history. “

‘Uncertain if the good artist is always a good man’

At that moment fatal the conversation revolves around the Artificial intelligence and the risks that are in the absence of its reckless use.

She remains categorical for the unbearable of the theater. “No, I don’t think it’s in danger, I don’t believe it. When the theater is in danger, man will be in danger in general. So if it is to disappear as a species, the theater will disappear. Only then. “

The interview is moving forward. An eternal question that causes thoughts and concerns is: “Can you be a great artist if you are not a great person first?”

“And it worries me,” he replies. There have been great artists who were not good as humans. Someone who is very self -centered, very narcissist is a good actor, a good painter. But that does not mean that it can be a dear personality. I don’t know how good Dali or Picasso was. Obviously they weren’t the best people in many ways. However, their work is very big. But there is a lonely art, “he explains.

“I don’t think the theater was taken by Metoo”

“In the theater one cannot be a bad person and remain, because he is a team sports. No matter how the head is there. Because I always believe that in the theater one has the vision, one has the idea and he will implement it. But you can’t work with a team and be a bad person who underestimates them. That is why I distinguish the artist’s function of the actors. “

The time has come for the Metoo In Greece, especially in 2021 during the second and most difficult quarantine, where people were “bombed” daily with bad news about complaints for sexual harassmentabove all in the theater.

“I don’t think the theater came out of all this. If that were taken, the world of law and medicine had to come out. There are these everywhere. There are just many well -known people in the theater and that’s why all this donor becomes. But this is a very small part of the theater. “

“I told you I’ve been in the theater for 40 years. Of course it was my troupe. I have never encountered any issues, nor itself personally. In fact, once jerking the Lefteris Eleftheriou He told me “I haven’t seen such a boring troupe, you didn’t do a abuse”. I want to say that the majority have not created issues. It is not altered by 4 and 5 and 10 people in the theater, ”he insists.

“However, a good thing has caused all this,” he explains. “What was this good? In the theater there was easy perception that “artist is, he has his nerves“. So there was a tolerance to bad behavior. The director was finding, the other was slaughtering the other, underestimated the actor. I believe it is what one came in barrier“

“Maybe because I’m an actor, and a crap is an actor in rehearsal, I can’t say it. I will find a sweet way to say it, but I am an actor and I get into their shoes and I know how they feel. Now a very nervous director can at that moment say “you are playing crap” and that is no one. But for the other who has a mental fragility, it is suffering. “

“Today it is good for the actor to have more education”

The discussion is slowly closing. Actress or hobby Would her advice on a young man today?

“I don’t think the actor becomes like a hobby,” he apparently estimates. ‘The actor is not professionis art. It requires you to want it, to sacrifice to do it. You sacrifice hours that you would be with your child, who would be with your family, celebrations, you are having difficulties, insecurities. For me you can’t do it as a hobby. “

“But what I always say is that it is good, especially in our time, for the actor to have above education. Or he has gone to university, until this university is becoming a darling study, or knowing another art. That is, not to be hanging on wood. But all the kids I know from the provinces, very poor families who really wanted them and worked in the barz or car workshop. They wanted it and worked. “

And closes by saying:

“Opportunities are presented to us, the point is to move on and have the right supplies. No one comes to the theater to see someone because they have followers. You can’t simulate an influencer that fills 1,000 people with a man filling an Epidaurus. The first is not an actor, he is a passerby. There is no an actor who has been left without theater for years.

Even by the very greats of his Hollywoodyou see that those who stand out, from Merter strip up to If Hathawaythey are all of the actor theater. Everyone in the theater. You get rid of it, you are tortured, you become a razile, you play crap, you learn, you become better. You can’t learn from cinema, nor from television. Where you go ready. “