A spiritual road trip has begun yesterday at the Onassis Cultural Center, and it is set to go on until May 7. This existential theatrical experience makes three stops -Hell, Purgatory and Heaven- as, for the first time, a Greek theatre company tackles Dante’s emblematic work, the Divine Comedy. Argyro Chioti and the VASISTAS theatre group, which was formed in France in 2005 and has forged a career both in Greece and internationally, return to the Onassis Cultural Center two years after “Bloods” with Dante’s imaginary journey through the kingdom of the dead.
Faced with the sheer volume of Dante’s trilogy, VASISTAS devised a highly concise version of Dante’s text by selecting those sections that convey its deeply personal qualities: the difficult journey made by one individual, from the dark ordeals of the everyday, through times of painful crisis, to life’s light-filled moments of escape; from immersion in a world of shadows, to an exit towards the light.
On stage, a tight, core group of performers will take on the narration by expanding the codes developed over recent years by VASISTAS, who place the expressive power of the body and the musical dimensions of choral forms at the heart of their practice.
A string quartet complements the action on stage. Minimalism and electronica mesh in a live interaction, contributing to the concoction of the particular theatrical experience of the Divine Comedy as a road trip.
On Friday, April 28, a discussion among the audience and the artists will follow the performance, coordinated by theater critic and professor of Theatrical Studies, Grigoris Ioannides. Also, on May 3 & 4, a workshop with Argyro Chioti and the Vasistas group is available.
You can watch the performance’s trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PzL_s0lNw
Where: Onassis Cultural Center
When: April 22 – May 7 (Wednesdays to Sundays), 20:30
Admission: 7-20 € (5 € for the unemployed and the disabled)
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