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Greece<\/strong><\/p>\n

The performance on 14\/7 will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the end of a battle, a group of survivors returns to their homeland, burdened with the task of announcing what they have witnessed and endured. Their journey spans an entire night of marching, exhaustion, reflection, inner monologue, intentions, attempts, and questionings\u2014regarding both the message they must deliver and the way in which it should be announced.<\/em>
\nTheir speech, initially resembling that of a war messenger\u2014bearing news of defeat and destruction\u2014gradually becomes distorted, blending with the content of their announcements, truth and falsehood intertwining, and their very identities dissolving.<\/em>
\nThe site of the announcement becomes a new battlefield where past and present meet and clash. Through this confrontation, the messengers take on shifting roles: at times, they are soldiers, at others, agents of power, angels, or birds.<\/em>
\nThe announcement itself shifts between past and present, moving through crimes, wars, uncanny acts, curses, punishments, and misinterpreted truths. Eventually, it reaches the future as prophecy, articulating destiny in an incomprehensible language. Likewise, those delivering the message transform into messengers of ancient tragedies, modern journalists, and ultimately, prophets.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The piece explores the concept and significance of the announcement \u2014 from the universally resonant and weighty speeches of messengers in ancient Greek tragedy, to the sensationalism, exaggeration, and indiscretion of contemporary journalistic discourse, and beyond human language, to the mysterious and incomprehensible voices of prophets and angels.<\/p>\n

Credits<\/strong>
\nConcept, direction, choreography:<\/strong> Angeliki Sigourou
\nChoreographer\u2019s\/director\u2019s assistant:<\/strong> Dimitris Baltas
\nPerformers:<\/strong> Angeliki Aggeletaki, Evi Aresti, Timothy Ashplant, Dimitris Baltas, Antigoni Choundri, Josephine Gray, Afedia Kanellopoulou, Ariadni Kitsou, Christos Kollias, Sofia Koktsidou, Xeni Kottaki, Manti Papandreou, Vivi Sklia, Anmar Taha, Konstantina Thanasouli
\nMusic and sound design:<\/strong> Fotis Mylonas
\nSet design:<\/strong> Akropoditi Dancetheatre
\nCostumes:<\/strong> Matina Megla
\nSketch:<\/strong> Evi Aresti
\nGraphic design, program and poster design:<\/strong> Vivi Sklia
\nTexts:<\/strong>\u00a0Adapted excerpts from monologues of ancient Greek tragedies, excerpts of headlines and news articles, passages from prophetic texts of the Old Testament (Daniel), the New Testament (Revelation) and the Quran (chapter 56), references to the book\u00a0Fractured Loyalties\u00a0<\/em>(Ashplant, Timothy 2007), and texts composed by the company.
\nAdaptation of ancient Greek tragedies:<\/strong> Angeliki Sigourou, Timothy Ashplant, Christos Kollias<\/p>\n

Duration:<\/strong> 70 min.
\nTrailer: <\/strong>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1089992293<\/a>,\u00a0 https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1098097081<\/a><\/p>\n

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