The Athens Festival, honoring them 100 years since the death of August Strindberg, chooses as the opening Greek performance at Piraeus 260(building D) the "Miss Julia", work that caused a huge scandal when it was written 1888.
The current approach to the project is signed by Dimitris Lignadis, who "reads" the naturalistic demand of August Strindberg in another way, as well as the infamous battle of the sexes that concerns the specific project, but also the entire work of the author. As he emphasizes, "he is making a show in which the question "where is the man and the woman" dominates. In other words, poetry and reality within these two stage beings".
The famous couple Julia-Jean are performed by Stefania Gouliotis and the director himself, while the enigmatic Christine is played by Maria Protopapa.
THE August Strindberg focused in this work not only on the struggle of the two sexes, but also in the conflict of two social classes (the popular class represented by Jean and the aristocratic class represented by Julia). So beyond the pre-eternal male-female complex, there is also the rivalry between a fragile and collapsing aristocracy and a rising – but ruthless- popular class.
Although smaller in area, it is considered perhaps the most notable of the author's dramas, because – apart from others- attempts to reshape dramatic art. The whole tragedy unfolds in one act, in the kitchen of a country house and with only three persons.
Translation
Margarita Melberg
Editing - Directing
Dimitris Lignadis
Scenery – Costumes
Eva Nathena
Lighting
Sakis Birbilis
Music
Hero
Associate Director
Akis Gourzoulidis
Assistant Set Designer - Costume Designer
Gospel Catechism
Distribution
Miss Julia: Stefania Gouliotis
Jean: Dimitris Lignadis
Christine: Maria Protopapa
Info
Location Piraeus 260 (building D)
Date 10, 11 June, 21:00
Information www.greekfestival.gr
Ticket prices 25€, 15€ (student, DISABLED)
Source : culturenow.gr