A couple of hours separate us from the premiere of the brand new manufacturing of Thespidus Chariot “The Exindaveloni”, by Konstantinos Oikonomou and directed by Christos Strepkos.
It is without doubt one of the most vital works of the fashionable Greek Enlightenment written in 1816 and is a Greek adaptation of Moliere’s “Filargyros” which focuses on social problems with his time.
Patras: Within the ultimate stretch for the premiere of “Exindaveloni” by Arma Thespidos PHOTO
As we speak, the director of the present, Christos Strepkos, talks to pelop.gr in regards to the selection of the precise work, the stinginess of cash and feelings, the topicality of the textual content and rather more.
Why and the way did you select the precise challenge of Economos?
At Arma Thespidos we attempt to have an excellent repertoire, so long as it’s classical. Now we have introduced Shakespeare, Marivo, younger Greek writers. This play is definitely a stage efficiency of Moliere’s The Miser, a Moliere in disguise, however the disguise and the interpretation of the Steward are so lovely. He has transferred the work to the Greece of 1820, to a Greece the place there have been only a few individuals who learn and people who learn have been associated to the church. He was a priest who actually did a wonderful job. This efficiency is so attention-grabbing that whereas it’s Moliere, it’s really a very Greek Moliere. And I feel the association and adaptation made for five folks could be very attention-grabbing. After we say that we take the nice theater to the neighborhoods, it can’t be completed for those who would not have a powerful textual content or a piece that has been judged in historical past, similar to “The Miser” by Moliere.
It’s a Greek nationwide comedy. What are the weather that depict the Greek ethos?
It has some characters that it appears by means of. There’s Mr. Iannos, a comical countryman who will later be seen in basic comedies of Greek cinema, is the countryman who is commonly performed by Hatzichristos, who has a Tyrnavos dialect. Hexendavelonis himself is the miser in a manner. However the miser in France is totally different from the miser in Smyrna. He’s turning into a waiter! The loving {couples} within the play are extra paying homage to Greece, as are the youngsters who obey their mother and father and respect their father’s opinion, though it additionally occurs in Moliere, right here we’ve the sensation of a Greek household. However it’s extra obvious from the dialogues, that are extra sloppy, Mediterranean, extroverted than they’re in Moliere’s unique work.
We’re speaking a couple of basic work and so they say that basic works are additionally present. Does “Exindavelonis” belong to this class?
Its relevance lies in historical past. The daddy decides the destiny of the youngsters by securing himself. And there lies its topicality: that every era, with all its pluses and minuses, ought to declare its rights so long as it assumes its obligations. Within the a part of how the younger folks, the youngsters of Exindaveloni who courtes them for different marriages, will lastly do theirs, what expresses them can also be present affairs.
The challenge develops in a pre-revolutionary interval. You could possibly strategy it in a extra classical manner or a extra free rendering. What did you select and why?
I at all times and with my companions, what’s of utmost significance, is to speak a couple of efficiency that travels with the Chariot. The primary purpose performs are uploaded is as a result of they’ve one thing to say to immediately’s viewers, in a time that’s operating. It has clearly been tailored in a manner that the viewers will see an entertaining present that can final about 75 minutes. Plenty of work has been completed and never solely within the adaptation of the textual content and the course. I’ve the pleasure of getting two glorious companions by my aspect. The primary is Camilo Bendancor, who is a wonderful choreographer in addition to an acrobat. He educated the youngsters in commedia del arte. And to inform the reality, we went additional than the writer. I requested the choreographer to search out the story that Moliere himself was impressed by. It’s an previous story of commedia del arte and since our choreographer has expertise in it, the youngsters practiced loads on this specific style and carried out a very totally different model firstly. Quite a bit has modified on this present by way of a classical staging, however it doesn’t matter what you do, we ended up staging Moliere! That is what we realized! The loft on which performances have been held has additionally modified. It has been changed by a slim rig and I am making an attempt to have a deep vary of discipline, some commentary behind the rig to make the work extra direct and interactive. There have typically been many modifications. My second main collaborator, Kenny McLellan, who made glorious costumes, helped me loads with this. I had the pleasure of getting two companions by my aspect who, along with the actors, supported it and I imagine that it’s a very recent and dynamic efficiency.
We’re speaking a couple of challenge with a central theme of avarice. As we speak, does the fashionable man’s dependence on cash exist?
After all there’s. Cash is a implies that permits us to socialize. Cash is an imaginary entity, we imagine in it and do enterprise with it. Sooner or later, cash reaches one other state of cash, an immaterial, unresponsive, return of wealth, lets say. What’s the Inventory Market? {That a} product will acquire worth sooner or later and funding in it earlier than it’s even manufactured. It clearly performs a job in our lives. However the problem isn’t cash, however lessons, how it’s shared. Cash isn’t a nasty factor. The evil lies in the truth that it’s concentrated in lots of few and too many individuals dwell at poverty ranges. The difficulty is to share the cash extra pretty.
Since we’re speaking about stinginess, let’s get away from cash and go to emotions. Are we stingy there?
That is additionally a bit subjective, however I imagine that the Mediterranean peoples aren’t stingy, with out that that means that there’s a generalization a couple of folks. However, this climate in Greece, the ocean, the flavors, the way in which and the tradition we supply, don’t “let” us be stingy. I’d say, closing the inventory marketplace for the “tie” with the earlier query, we’re in all probability wasteful, we’re bankrupt.
Data
Solid members:
Directed by: Christos Strepkos
Set-Costumes: Kenny McLellan
Kinesiology: Camilo Bendancor
Lighting design: Christos Strepkos
Pictures: Vassilis Zaverdas
Videography: Konstantinos Liopetas
Make-up: Ina Tseliou
Actors play:
Vassilis Kokkalis, Alexandros Koukias, Aliki Economopoulou, Valia Tzitzikakis, Vassilis Tsorlalis.
The author:
Konstantinos Oikonomou translated historic tragedies, organized theatrical performances on the Smyrna college and revealed “Exindaveloni”, an adaptation of Moliere’s “Filargyros” tailored to the fashionable social lifetime of Smyrna.
First efficiency: Friday, Might 24, 2024. A tour of Southwest Greece will comply with.
Free entrance.
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