In Athens, the performance by 16 April at the Greek World Theater
Seventy years old this year Madame Soussou and celebrates it with the performance that started from the State Theater of Northern Greece and from Thursday, 26 April will be performed in Athens at the Hellenic World Theater. At the same time, a large retrospective exhibition of the career of Dimitris Psathas is being inaugurated (1907-1979) in life and in the theater: personal and professional, with his family but also at the press offices of Eleftheros Vima and Neos, photos as well as rich – anecdote – material from his performances, starting from the rehearsals and reaching the premieres, will adorn the foyer on Piraeus Street, from the archive of the Psathas family, under the supervision of Lena Nitsou's granddaughter- Mat.
But who is Madame Soussou and how did she manage to stay so alive: Bigoted and unacceptable, Madame Soussou began as a cartoon in the pre-war weekly "Family Treasure" (1939), became a book (1941), number of occupancy inspections, play (1942), motion picture (1948), radio broadcast (1950), tv series (1972 and 1986). At the same time, it was translated into many languages and was performed at home and abroad.
The creator himself writes: "Soloupi spartan. Style imposing. Nose slightly turned up. Pose. Cap on the top of the head m’ a red wing that soars as a challenge to the universe. Tall, xeracian. Woman or Phenomenon; Head back. Her chin up, her nose higher, her eye on chaos. Whoever stands in front of her feels like a merman. Her gaze barely admits to touching the visible things of our humble world, and when it does it takes on tones of condescension… Poverty; You have to look closely to see it. Her style, which comes from a dynamic soul, spreads and dispels the impression of poverty – a body armored constantly fighting against poverty itself, as if he is struggling every moment to defeat her and succeeds triumphantly. He is holding a pair of rusted facades, raises hand slowly, raises eyebrows with later, moves his head back and looks ap’ the unfathomable yonder heights of an unshakable self-confidence the poor creatures of God who happen to circulate around her…”. Nicknamed the "tower mistress of Vouthoula", or better "Bythula" – at Plato's Academy, as she called the neighborhood from which she started to reach …Kolonaki.
Inspired by a real person, a neighbor of Psathas himself to whom he dedicated it, "Madame Soussou" was first uploaded on 1942 with Mrs. Katerina and Emilios Veakis, in the Katerina theater, of Victoria Square. Mary Aroni and Anna Panagiotopoulou followed. Marika Nezer was in the cinema, on TV Georgia Vasiliadou while on TV Anna Paitazi and then Anna Panagiotopoulou.
THE IDENTITY OF THE SHOW
"Madame Sousou" by Dimitris Psathas – NTNG. Directed by Giorgos Armenis, sets-costumes Yiannis Metzikof, music by Giorgos Christianakis, choreography by Alexandra Tsotanidou, lighting Tasos Dailidis.
They play: Fotini Baxevani, Kostas Santas, Vassilis Evtaxopoulos, Thalia Skarlatou, Dimitris Siakaras, Thalia Skarlatou et al.
WHEN & POU "THEATER" of the "Hellenic World" Cultural Center / Antigone Hall, Piraeus 254, Taurus, tel. 212 254 0300 Premiere, Thursday 26 April 2012, at 21.00 Tickets 24 – 21 – 18 – 15 – 12 euro
Source: tovima.gr