
Co-produced by: La Filature, Scene Nationale Mulhouse (FR), Romaeuropa Festival (IT), La Strada Festival (AU)
For this international co-production, Elli Papakonstantinou writes in tandem and directs a new piece after Euripides’ Bacchae with an emphasis on an all-inclusive world.
It is a piece across the borders between genres; epistemological borders, scientific, and fictional languages; the borders of gender; the borders between languages and nationalities, those that separate humanity from animality, the living from the dead, and the borders between today and history.
Director’s Note
As a director, I follow the flows of text, live music, video art and dance in search of a new performative language. This piece lies in the intersection of these flows: queer is a new aesthetic: a pop piece with classical operatic bursts, a dance piece with steadiness in its heart, a cinematic concert: it is a Greek tragedy in the metaverse.
Direction / Concept / Text: Elli Papakonstantinou
Original Music Composition: Ariah Lester
Choreography: Sine Qua Non Art – Christophe Beranger + Jonathan Pranlas Descours
Set Design: Maria Panourgia
Video Art / Live Video Design: Pantelis Makkas
Electroacoustic Compositions / Interactive Sound Design Istallation: Lambros Pigounis
Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami
Light Design: Marietta Pavlaki
Code Programming: Giannis Kranidiotis
Collaboration on Texts: Chloe Tzia Kolyri / Louisa Arkoumanea / Ariah Lester / Haris Kalaitzidis
Photography: Alex Kat
Performers: Ariah Lester, Hara Kotsali, Vasilis Boutsikos, Georgios Iatrou, Aris Papadopoulos, Lito Messini
Production & Tour Management: Alexandra Fyka + Olga Mavroeidi
Technical Direction Lambros Pigounis
Assistant to the Director A Spyros Sourvinos
Assistant to the Director B Christianna Toka
Tour & Development Management Laurent Langlois
ODC Office Direction Gina Zorba
PREMIERE 2023 at La Filature, Scene Nationale Mulhouse, Festival Vagamondes (FR) 17 + 18.03. 2023
La Strada Festival (AU) 07 / 08. 2023
Romaeuropa Festival (IT) 30.09 + 01.10. 2023
Produced by ODC Ensemble
Co- produced by
La Filature, Scene Nationale de Mulhouse (FR),Romaeuropa Festival (IT), La Strada Festival (AT)
With the Support of
the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
ODC Ensemble
A Θeatre in Times of Crisis
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Destiny | 2004
Happiness Unlimited | 2016
Streams of Voices | 2003
Elli Papakonstantinou
Performance Director, Activist
A Night of Secrets | 2007
The Sound of the Gun | 2008
The Mysterious Mr Love | 2005
Tree of Happiness | 2017
Faith | 2006
They’re Playing our Song | 2005
Louisette: The Backstage of Revolution | 2017
Viciousness in the Kitchen | 2010
The Cave | 2018
Każin Barokk | 2018
Nine Lives, Ten Tails | 1997
Revolt Athenς | 2015
Debtocrazy Revolutions | 2015
The Suppliants after Aeschylus after Kossovo | 1999
Richard II | 2014
Ajax | 1998
Out Cry | 2016
Out Cry | 2011
Sous l’oiel d’Oedipe | 2010
Skin [Δέρμα] | 2012
Woyzeck Quartet | 2012
From Α to Ω | 2010
The Country | 2009
The Iron | 2004
ODC …After Homer | 2002-04
ODC, after Homer’s Odyssey | 2009
Ma Vie de Chandelles | 2012
Touching the Bottom of the Sea | 2013
Oedipus: Sex with Mum was Blinding | Upcoming
Femme et Loup | 2014
The Decameron of Women | 2000
The Ships | 2005
Mετά [After] | 2011
Lettre aux Jeunes Acteurs | 2008
Vyrsodepseio
Art Space | Athens
A Winter’s Tale | 2021