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A certain paradise 2, again at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation

Jean Genet's work entitled "Somebody's Paradise 2" returns to the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation from Wednesday 20 February up to Sunday 3 March 2013.

A tough one, modern work, based on the life and work of Jean Genet.
The play unfolds in the prison where the inmate is incarcerated for the umpteenth time, Gene, trying to finish a book. The heroes spring from his imagination, they take on flesh and blood, they live their own lives on the sidelines, they hate and worship their creator. Reality and the writer's imagination are so intertwined, that you can't tell which is which. Genet's world – more relevant than ever today- it becomes the mirror of our world.

JEAN GENE takes us on a tour of the fringes of human society, to those that hurt us, they scare us, they attract and repel us at the same time, only help in our journey the human values ​​that will emerge, only shelter ourselves, only hope is the understanding that in the end everyone has the paradise they deserve.

There is justice in this world;
There is reward and punishment;
The bad are in prison and the good are vindicated;

COEFFICIENTS:
TEXT- DIRECTION: Vana Pefani
SCENERY: George Lyntzeris
COSTUME: Ioanna Zafeiropoulou
DESIGN OF LIGHTS: Katerina Maragoudaki
VIDEO: Nikos Giavropoulos
SONG MUSIC: Panagiotis Kalatzopoulos
LYRICS OF SONGS: Aris Davarakis
PERFORMANCE MUSIC AND SOUNDS: DNA LAB. Alexander Christaras – Michalis Nibolianitis
MOTION EDITION: Sophia Michael
PHOTOS: Yannis Bastardis- Nikos Stavropoulos
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT: Loukia Simonoviki

THEY ARE PLAYING: 
Panagiotis Petrakis, Kyriakos Kosmidis, Hieronymos Kaletsanos, Nikos Ioannidis, George Striftaris, Vassilis Afentoulis, Vana Pefani, Nikolina Mouaimi, Dimitris Katsis, Stavroula Oikonomou, Margarita Papantoni

The show is inappropriate under 18 years.


Source : culturenow.gr

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15the Thessaloniki documentary festival: New horizons in the market

Five hundred and twenty films will occupy this year's market, 15th Thessaloniki documentary festival- Images of the 21st century, which, worth noting, that according to the first data they will visit more than 55 foreign film industry professionals. Among the 530 these films included most of the Greek production, as well as a selection of the best films of the year that have been screened at many festivals abroad.

In this year's Docs in Progress section (documentary in progress) a prize will be awarded by audiovisual services company Authorwave, while successful purchase discussions continue (Market Talks), a practical guide for documentarians, στο πλαίσιο του οποίου διακεκριμένοι επαγγελματίες του κινηματογραφικού χώρου, θα δώσουν χρηστικές πληροφορίες στους δημιουργούς.

Σε ότι αφορά το καλλιτεχνικό μέρος του φεστιβάλ που θα πραγματοποιηθεί από την Παρασκευή 15 Μαρτίου ως την Κυριακή 24, ορισμένα από τα δυνατά χαρτιά του θα είναι η πανελλήνια πρεμιέρα της υποψήφιας για το Οσκαρ ντοκυμαντέρ ταινίας «Ο αόρατος πόλεμος» («Τhe invisible war») του Κέρμπι Ντικ, η «Salma» της Βρετανίδας Κιμ Λοντζινότο και το «Προσωπικό σύμπαν» («Private Universe») της Τσέχας Χελένα Τρεστίκοβα.

Ο «Αόρατος πόλεμος» έχει ήδη προκαλέσει σοκ γιατί φέρνει στο φως το καλά κρυμμένο μυστικό των βιασμών γυναικών εντός του αμερικανικού στρατού, η «Salma» αφηγείται την ιστορία μιας Ινδής η οποία αποδεσμεύτηκε από το σκληρό πεπρωμένο των γυναικών της χώρας της για να ακουστεί μέσα από την ποίηση και την πολιτική.

End, in the,τι αφορά το «Προσωπικό σύμπαν», η Τρεστίκοβα με τη διεισδυτική ματιά της παρακολουθεί την ζωή μιας οικογένειας κατά τη διάρκεια 37 years, εκθέτοντας τις κρυφές πτυχές της αλλά όσα διαμόρφωσαν το σύγχρονο πρόσωπο της Τσεχίας.      

Source : tovima.gr
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I will get you to leave: Greece through the inspection at the Badminton Theater

The Badminton Theatre, honoring the Athenian Review, this great chapter of the Greek theater, presents a music and dance extravaganza that tells the story of Greece through the course of the Athenian revue.
The protagonist is herself "Madam Inspection", who returns to the stage to travel her comper-grandson back in time, in its most important moments.
A 35-member troupe of elite actors, singers, musicians and dancers bring the adventures to life, her suxes and loves.

The mythical protagonists parade on the board, the inimitable sayings, the great voices, the immortal songs, the worldly haunts and glamorous fashion of a golden age. And up close the current affairs, political and social changes, urbanization, the fate of Greece - always with humor and a satirical mood.

The Lady Inspection takes the viewer by the hand and, including, shows him around: at the Theater Mondial in the revue "Modern Girls", when Zaza Brillanti clashes with the Kaloutas sisters∙ in Athens in the 1940s, when Vembo changes the words to “Zehra” and sings “Children, of Greece's Children" at the Park Theater in the 60s, when Aliki Vougiouklakis replaces Dimitris Horn for a performance in "Street of Dreams". Yet, guides viewers through historical inspections "Yuppie Ya", "Women and Flowers", "The Athens of '64", "Tickling Tickles" and so many others∙ in the happiest for the spectators theatrical competition, when "Beautiful City" by Mikis Theodorakis was staged at the Park Theater and "Street of Dreams" by Manos Hadjidakis a few meters away, at the Metropolitan Theatre.

Through the journey of the Lady Inspection, Georgia Vasiliadou, Kostas Hatzichristos, Vassilis Avlonitis, and Mimis Fotopoulos return to comment on today's Greece, which has so much in common with the Greece of that time. Besides, the Lady Inspection, married in the show to a right-handed person but in love with a left-handed person, torn between the urban and the popular, humor and seriousness, it is the eternally divided Greece.

"I'LL TAKE YOU OUT"
DIRECTION-CHOREGRAPHY: FOKAS EVANGELINOS
TEXTS-RESEARCH: ANGELOS PYRIOCHOS
MUSIC DIRECTION: GIORGOS KATSAROS
SCENES-COSTUMES: EVA NATHENA
LIGHTING: LEFTERIS PAVLOPOULOS
PRODUCTION: MICHALIS ADAM
IN THE 35-MEMBER TREASURY THEY ARE THE LEADERS:
IN THE ROLE OF "MAIN INSPECTOR" ANTONIS LOUDAROS


THIN HOLE
BEGNIS MEMO
ELIZABETH MOUTAFI
MICHALIS MARINOS
GIORGOS CAPOUTZIDES IN THE ROLE OF KOBER

THE ORCHESTRA IS CONDUCTED BY MASTER GIORGOS KATSAROS

Source : culturenow.gr

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Chocolate movie ticket record


Unprecedented for the Greek data the receipts of the movie "Love comes to an end"

Twenty-two thousand viewers managed to attract on the very first day of its screening (Thursday 14 February) the Greek movie "Love comes to an end". Unprecedented number, especially for the difficult period we are going through. According to the first data, the film distributed by the film company ODEON, A similar opening of a Greek work in Greek theaters has been taking place for five years. This means that 75 % of tickets sold on Thursday belonged to "Love Comes to an End".
The film that was not accidentally distributed in theaters on "Valentine's Day" was directed by Vassilis Kehagias, in its cinematic debut. However, her most interesting element is her birth. It all seems to have started four months ago through an original interactive idea supported by Lacta Chocolate and the advertising company OgilvyOne Athens.
True stories of unfulfilled love were collected from the audience which with the appropriate script editing would end with a happy finale. Panos Samprakos and Panagiotis Iosisfelis edited the story of three of these stories and in this way a 20 minute short film presented on the internet and acted as a teaser of the film that was then shot (ο Π. Iosifelis appears as her screenwriter).
According to the press release of the film (which did not appear to film critics) at 90′ minutes we watch three true cases of unfulfilled love to get the happy ending! Stories take joy in several cities such as Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Istanbul and are as follows: A girl who is afraid to feel, falls in love.  A man who lies because he does not dare to express what he feels, he must now tell the truth . And a couple that neither of them believes in love, they can not live far from each other.
The campaign that followed the creation of the 20-minute teaser continued with a new Alternative Reality Game and had a tremendous reception and success..  In numbers this translates as follows: the 17 % of the Greek "internet" population saw the 20-minute film, therefore 700.000 people had the movie in mind before it was even shot. Today Lacta's Facebook page has more than 670.000 likes (I like).
Among the actors starring in "Love" are Georgina Liossi, Leonidas Kalfagiannis, Katerina Geronikolou, Panos Vlachos,  Nikolas Aggelis and Myriella Kourenti.  The film is a co-production of ODEON SA. and NOVA.  Producing company is VIEW MASTER FILMS A.E..
Source : tovima.gr
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Obelix gives chase …bulls in Crete

50 years of Asterix in the archaeological museums of Kissamos and Chania

Bulls everywhere but not a single boar to appease Obelix's hunger. Despite everything...he decided to go to Crete, along with his friend Asterix of course, and the rest of the company.
 The archaeological museums of Kissamos and Chania are therefore preparing to welcome them after this, since the exhibition on the 50 years of Asterix, which started from Thessaloniki and after stops at other museums in the country, it also arrives in Crete around mid-March.
  Here the heroes of Umberzo and Gossini will meet the famous Minoan bulls, they will learn the secret recipe of gamopilafos and pose next to the ancient statues. After all, in every museum the "scenario" of the presentation of the exhibition changes and adapts to the place and its findings.
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Anies Zaoui: "I feel honored and excited to come to Greece"

The French creator comes to our country on the occasion of the project "Kitchens and Accessories"

"When I go to a country as a guest, like now when I come to Athens, I have a very personal feeling: I feel honored, that they recognize me and I am moved. It's been twenty-five years since the last time – and it was for a holiday in the islands. Especially in Greece, which is the center of the civilized world, it is even more important for me to show my work, which is also my first".
Anies Zaoui, the French writer of Tunisian origin, director and actor, which will be in our country on the occasion of the staging of the play "Kitchens and accessories" co-written with Jean-Pierre Bakri, is on the other end of the phone line.
"For me, art is all of these together and I don't think I can separate them. The theater, where i started, it led me to writing. Now I know that a project is completed on stage – it is very difficult to read the theater… Writing remains my most personal part, the most independent. You don't need anyone to write. Only yourself. Plus it's something you carry everywhere. I am free when I write. you know", says, "I have a theory and I parallel the different species with the ages of man. Acting makes me a kid. The writing, adult…». As for the cinema, whom she also loves, admits that it is an art more "dependent" on external factors.
The 49-year-old creator, who divides her time and life between the board and the big screen, he's got, among other things sign the film adaptation in – well-known film in Greece – "Smoking/No smoking" by Alain René, based on works by Alan Eckborn. Zawi has won awards and accolades, as well as a nomination for an Oscar for foreign language film. Specifically, the 2001 she was a candidate, along with Bakri, for the film "Le gout des autres", about the socio-cultural differences of a group of people. With her directorial gaze, full of humor and sensitivity, the same film was warmly received in France, winning over viewers, which reached four million, as many Cesars as he received that year.
With "Kitchens and accessories" he deals with the subject of celebrity. "A subject that", as she says herself, "it keeps coming back. This is because the power that celebrity offers is enormous. And I'm not referring to Andy Warhol's few minutes of fame, but in the one that has duration and of course great power". In the play it all starts when a couple organizes a dinner party at home to honor an old friend who is now very famous. Everyone is wondering who this celebrity guest is, if they knew him before he became famous, if he hides secrets he hides. And while all this happens around the table, the actual plot seems to develop into…. kitchen.
Anies Zaoui is at the same time a woman with a strong public political and social discourse. In his French election 2012 had come out in favor of Martine Aubry, while participating in forums about foreigners and their problems, as well as issues of art. She recently adopted two children 5 and 7 years from Brazil, because as she has stated herself "I never felt the biological need to have children. In addition, I find it unbearable to read in biographies of women whether or not they have children"…
THE IDENTITY OF THE SHOW
"Kitchens and fittings" by Anies Zaoui and Jean-Pierre Bakry. Directed by Antigoni Amanitou. They interpret: P. Vogiatzis, L. Giannaridou, P. Bed, M. Polymers, Al. Sotiriou. Scenography by Kostas Velinopoulos. Lighting Yannis Drakularakos
WHEN & WHERE
Theater Point (Harilaou Trikoupi 4, Kallithea) Every Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday at 21.15.  
Source : tovima.gr
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Yiannis Kotsiras at Rythmo Stage

Yannis Kotsiras continues his appearances this time at Rythmo Stage, in Ilioupoli, "company" with many favorite songs! For two Fridays
(1 and 8 Of March) presents a special musical performance, a "Music Box" containing not only familiar but also brand new tracks, after four years, Giannis released a few days ago his own personal record.

In his company is Savveria Margiola as well as five great musician-partners who literally co-star in this musical approach, each putting his orchestral suggestion, his personal skill but also satisfying his need for expression, through the improvisational freedom of the performance. More specifically, he is joined by Christos Alexakis on keyboards and orchestrations, Vangelis Macheiras on the whole spectrum of folk strings from the lute to the ziura and from the bouzouki to the mandolin, Dimitris Moutafis on bass, Kostas Michalos on guitars and Grigoris Syntridis on drums and percussion.

Source : culturenow.gr