A seduction, a bomb, a revolution

Fashion and absolute nakedness

For a second year, and with a renewed company, the National Theatre of Greece presents “Operetta”, a performance inspired by Witold Gombrowicz’s Operetta, directed by Nikos Karathanos.

In an otherworldly realm, where the characters’ innermost longing to return to immaturity dictates their every move, a strange and poetic story unfolds.

The imaginative, subversive and timeless Operetta by the great Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz adopts the lightness of this musical genre and, with its sweeping humour, undermines false political, moral and ideological models. At the same time it exposes the absurdity of those who embody them, and proposes the superiority of simplicity and “nakedness” over the emptiness of every passing fashion.

Count Aristaios plans to seduce the beautiful Albertina. The success of his scheme sets off a chain of unexpected and outrageous events, in which fashion coexists with revolution, and the corruption of clothing battles the innocence of nakedness.

Translation: Yannis Asteris

Director: Nikos Karathanos

Sets: Elli Papageorgakopoulou

Music: Angelos Triantafyllou

Lighting: Nikos Vlasopoulos

Movement: Amalia Bennett

Assistant director: Ioanna Bitouni

Assistant director: Marissa Triantafyllidou

Assistant set and costume designers: Myrto Lambrou,

Dimitris Angelis

 

Cast

Haris Alexiou

Haris Andrianos

Alexandros Vardaxoglou

Maria Diakopanagiotou

Vassiliki Driva

Paris Thomopoulos

Nikos Karathanos

Evangelia Karakatsani

Kostas Koronaios

Nikos Lekakis

Amalia  Bennett

Kostas Berikopoulos

Eleni Boukli

Evi Saoulidou

Michalis Sarantis

Elena Topalidou

Angelos Triantafyllou

Aris Servetalis

Haris Fragkoulis

 

Musicians on stage:

Iakovos Pavlopoulos, percussion

Vassilis Panagiotopoulos, trombone

Menelaos Moraitis, tuba

Kostas Nikolopoulos, guitar

Giorgos Dousos, gaida, kaval, duduk, clarinet, flute

Kostas Sapounis, trumpet

Ilya Algaer, double bass