“The Woman of Patras”: Change in the days and hours of performances Skai.gr

The shocking performance that shook the waters of the theatrical world, caused waves of excitement from the spectators and received rave reviews, returns ten years later at the “Poli” Theater on November 18, directed by Lena Kitsopoulou.

Eleni Kokkidou in a performance recital “transforms” into Panoraia, uniquely interpreting the heartbreaking monologue of “Woman of Patras” by George Chronas, offering strong emotions and inner vibrations. The emotional transitions, from sadness to joy, from tears to joy laughter, from pain to rage, from tension to silence, balance harmoniously creating an explosive performance.

For this role, Eleni Kokkidou was honored with the acting award “Karolos Koun” and the audience award from the magazine “Athinorama”.

This is a special theatrical performance of the narratives of the life of the prostitute Panoraia by the poet George Chronas, who recorded them in a series of interviews in the 80’s. The delusional monologue of a passionate, aching woman, who confesses her life and speaks openly without fear for pain, violence, pleasure, love, romance. An exuberant creature that sings, dances, cries, laughs, gets angry, provokes …

A cascade of words, sounds, expressions and pain. The torrent of Panoraia becomes poetry. The language he uses is that of the popular soul that is being liberated. Her life acrobatizes between light and darkness, between life and death. An extreme, hard, dangerous life, but with passion and momentum. The heroine in a uniquely authentic way, with immediacy and original popularity, narrates her life with shocking tragedy, but also with comic outbursts. It tastes the whole life, it exhausts it with all its existence, without rules and restrictions, without misery.

Note by George Chronas:
What does this biography that includes Patras, Athens, Greece, of the ’50s,’ 60s, ’70s, and made Manos Hadjidakis say, to a bookseller in the Hirs Gallery, Thessaloniki – what is the best book who read in his life? The reader will understand. It does not have one but many parallel miracles. Virtues of high speech. From an uneducated woman. The Woman of Patras, who speaks without shame or regret. Free and rare speech. […] “The woman of Patras”, is the truest, that is, naked, story that you have read, in the Greek language, from the crucifixion of Christ and the short stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis.

Interpretation: Eleni Kokkidou

Production: Theatrical Enterprises Tagari

Days and hours of performances:
WEDNESDAY 19:30
THURSDAY 21:00
SATURDAY 18:00
SUNDAY 20:00

Advance Ticket Sale:

https://www.viva.gr/tickets/theater/theatro-poli/i-gynaika-tis-patras/

CITY Theater:
Fokaias 4 & Aristotelous 87, Sq. Victoria / tel: 211-1828900