Mauthausen: The chronicle of a personal experience that captured one of the most shocking events in world history is brought to the stage. The most personal book of Iakovos Campanellis, there is also a performance from Thursday (6/12) comes to life at the Badminton Theatre.
"This is a chronicle, for a true story", points out Stelios Mainas who together with Katia Sperelakis and the director of the show Themis Moumoulidis, they sign the script. "It is not a theatrical text and Campanellis himself never wanted to change its form. He wanted to leave it as a testimony, as a document because that's the only way you can deal with it. We took the text with absolute respect and without changing it. This terrible river of events is not conveyed". That's why they kept it as a basic pattern, love as an event-cause. "And in particular the love of the hero, who is none other than Campanellis, for a Lithuanian woman. Imprisoned and condemned as they were, but they also found a place for feelings, for love, for life... And these “days and nights of love” as the creator himself notes, is what kept their humanity alive".
The book, reminds Stelios Mainas, "starts from May 5th, day of liberation and returns with a flashback to all the events that preceded it. The prisoners are now freed and against their will to return to life, they realized how close they were to each other, where returning home seemed like an elusive dream" he continues. And it is completed by the actor who plays the role of the narrator-Cambanelli, who visits Mauthausen after years: "We attempt to present the emotional inner revival of a whole world which was then attempted to be crushed. But they didn't make it. The IS failed to bend human dignity".
WHEN WHERE Badminton Ticket Prices : 10 – 16 – 22 – 28 – 38 Euro Performances: Thursday 6/12 as Sunday 9/12 at 20.30, Monday & Tuesday 10-11/12, at 19.00, Wednesday 12/12 at 20.00. Plus Saturday and Sunday, 8 & 9/12 at 17.00
The idea of the show belongs to Themis Moumoulidis and the promise he made to his daughter Campanellis, Katerina. Mikis Theodorakis did not take long to say "yes" to his own music, and so things went their way. "Campanelli's speech is so theatrical, it is so penetrating that our work was complementary", emphasizes Stelios Mainas. "All the work has been done by the creator himself. We are just the managers" he adds.
As soon as the first six shows were announced the public responded to such an extent that the organizers added first one more show and then two more. In total, there will be nine performances at Badminton with two and a half thousand seats – from Thursday 6/12 as well as Wednesday 12/12.
The prescribed success seems to have an answer in the names of the two creators: of the author and the composer. «Brand names», characterizes, as a matter of course, Campanellis and Theodorakis Stelios Mainas. And he's right....
THE IDENTITY OF THE SHOW
"Mauthausen" by Iakovos Campanellis. Music by Gustav Malher – Mikis Theodorakis. Orchestra conducted by Miltos Logiadis, lyrics by Iakovos Kampanellis, screenplay by Stelios Mainas – Themis Moumoulidis – Katia Sperelaki, scenography by Panagiotas Kokorou, kinesiology Apostolia Papadamakis. They play: Stelios Mainas, George Pyrpasopoulos, Aris Lebesopoulos, Marianna Polychronidis, Vassilis Bispikis, Konstantinos Giannakopoulos, Kostas Velentzas, Anna Elena et al.
The songs of Mouthazuzen with music by Mikis Theodorakis and lyrics by Iakovos Campanellis, performed by Rita Antonopoulou. The orchestra is conducted by Miltos Logiadis.
