A seduction, a bomb, a revolution<\/p>\n
Fashion and absolute nakedness<\/p>\n
For a second year, and with a renewed company, the National Theatre of Greece presents \u201cOperetta\u201d, a performance inspired by Witold Gombrowicz\u2019s Operetta, directed by Nikos Karathanos.<\/p>\n
In an otherworldly realm, where the characters\u2019 innermost longing to return to immaturity dictates their every move, a strange and poetic story unfolds.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cnakedness\u201d over the emptiness of every passing fashion.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Translation: Yannis Asteris<\/p>\n
Director: Nikos Karathanos<\/p>\n
Sets: Elli Papageorgakopoulou<\/p>\n
Music: Angelos Triantafyllou<\/p>\n
Lighting: Nikos Vlasopoulos<\/p>\n
Movement: Amalia Bennett<\/p>\n
Assistant director: Ioanna Bitouni<\/p>\n
Assistant director: Marissa Triantafyllidou<\/p>\n
Assistant set and costume designers: Myrto Lambrou,<\/p>\n
Dimitris Angelis<\/p>\n
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Cast<\/p>\n
Haris Alexiou<\/p>\n
Haris Andrianos<\/p>\n
Alexandros Vardaxoglou<\/p>\n
Maria Diakopanagiotou<\/p>\n
Vassiliki Driva<\/p>\n
Paris Thomopoulos<\/p>\n
Nikos Karathanos<\/p>\n
Evangelia Karakatsani<\/p>\n
Kostas Koronaios<\/p>\n
Nikos Lekakis<\/p>\n
Amalia\u00a0 Bennett<\/p>\n
Kostas Berikopoulos<\/p>\n
Eleni Boukli<\/p>\n
Evi Saoulidou<\/p>\n
Michalis Sarantis<\/p>\n
Elena Topalidou<\/p>\n
Angelos Triantafyllou<\/p>\n
Aris Servetalis<\/p>\n
Haris Fragkoulis<\/p>\n
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Musicians on stage:<\/p>\n
Iakovos Pavlopoulos, percussion<\/p>\n
Vassilis Panagiotopoulos, trombone<\/p>\n
Menelaos Moraitis, tuba<\/p>\n
Kostas Nikolopoulos, guitar<\/p>\n
Giorgos Dousos, gaida, kaval, duduk, clarinet, flute<\/p>\n
Kostas Sapounis, trumpet<\/p>\n
Ilya Algaer, double bass<\/p>\n