The Night of the Owl
of Giorgos Dialegmenos
Directed by: Dimitris Agartzidis & Despina Anastasoglou | Elephas tiliensis
The great play The Night of the Owl by Giorgos Dialegmenos, one of the most important Greek dramatists, comes back to the stage after the successful Spring performances at Bios from October 3, directed by Dimitris Agartzidis & Despina Anastasoglou | Elephas tiliensis. A play-allegory about life and death, cruel and sarcastic, about the inevitable moment when every man faces the darkness of his past; about the purification that darkness brings to his present.
Ion works in the lost bones department of a morgue. Hundreds of names and bones of people we have already forgotten, as if they never existed, pass daily before his eyes. Today is his moment. A business phone call will be the reason for him to go to the Underworld. There, Pelagia, his former lover, who killed herself because of him, is waiting for him. Pelagia loves owls. As another Laura of the Glass World she collects everything related to them. When the time comes for her former lover’s descent into the Underworld, even in the deepest darkness, the mythical night bird will see everything. Now Ion must face his past.
As long as death dominates people’s thoughts, consciously and unconsciously, love affairs, marriages, feasts, gluttony, memories, music, familiar faces, the whole world of the living confronts them with the compromises they made in order to survive. Was the life we lived worth? The Night of the Owl by Elephas tiliensis focuses on the Pause in time, the moment when man is confronted with his choices and guilt, the moment he reflects to heal the trauma of the past, claiming a living present.
The performance by Dimitris Agartzidis & Despina Anastasoglou invites the viewers to reflect on themselves at the critical moment, in the critical Now, to define the way they stand against the different, the “abnormal”, their own “Pelagia”, in this that deviates from the daily conventions that take away, day by day, the flesh and blood of their lives. A life in which we often end up absent, as other Ionians. Death here is not the end, just as, according to the author, the final period does not indicate the final closure of the work.
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Musician on stage:
Lydia Andrioti
Nausicaa Christodoulakos
Thomas Beltsios
Maria Gioni
Eleanna Georgiou
Dimitris Agartzidis, Despina Anastasoglou, Maria Gioni, Paraskevi Dourouklakis, Hectoras Lygizos, Vicky Katsika / Theodora Tzimou
Thomas Beltsios
The show is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture & Sports
The first presentation took place in the Spring of 2022 in Kamiros
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