On the occasion of today World Theater Daythe President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulouvisited the exhibition “In the country of Campanelli. Naxos, Mauthausen, Athens » at his Gika Gallery Benaki Museumwhich will open to the public in a few days.
As the lady reports Sakellaropoulouin a related post on facebookmet again with a creator, who met him through his unsurpassed performances Art Theaterwhile at the same time he spoke about the “Nestor of the Greek drama”, emphasizing that “Today, one hundred years after his birth, this eminently moral writer remains” invisibly present in the troupe of the visible “.
In particular, in her post, Mrs. Sakellaropoulou states:
“Today, World Theater Day, I had the pleasure to visit, a few days before it opens to the public, the exhibition” In the country of Campanelli. Naxos, Mauthausen, Athens ”at the Gika Gallery of the Benaki Museum. To meet again, thus, with a creator I met through the unsurpassed performances of the Art Theater, a writer who offered us a different experience of the theatrical act, producing a play predominantly Greek, not in the sense of a close locality, of a sterile graphicity, but exposing its truth in a way that meets the truth of the other, talking about our common pain and our common destiny with depth, simplicity, humanity. To follow the course of “Nestor of Greek drama”, as Walter Pouchner has called him, the neo-ethnographer who embodied reality with dreams and fantasy, the neo-realist with caustic humor, the political satirist, the courageous democrat who used allegory to denounce the dictatorship of the colonels. To trace the paths of a writer who did not confine himself to the theater, but to all kinds of writing, giving us, among other things, a leading example of military literature: Mauthausen’s prose, a testimony to the absolute evil of the Nazis lager, a text of extreme intensity, arranged in the task of memory. And to remember the active citizen, always sober and thoughtful, and his substantial interventions in public debate. Today, one hundred years after his birth, this eminently moral writer remains “invisibly present in the troupe of the visible.”
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