For his decision to leave his great love, the theater, Thymios Karakatsanis spoke.
Our leading actor, speaking to "Espresso" he declares that he is disgusted and bitter about what is happening around us, but also in the theater, resulting in him making the final decision to close a huge chapter of his life.
– You will be performing somewhere this theater season;
I will appear on Monday! I have already retired…
– I don't think what you say is true. You served the theater with passion…
I can't anymore, I can't…he says tiredly and withdraws into himself.
– Why are you staying away?;
Because I don't like it!
– Don't tell me you're retiring;
What should I retire?, since I have already retired…
– How did you make that decision?;
All this worthlessness has disgusted me.
– You feel the need to detox;
Ε, Yes. Rather…
– You have generously offered laughter to the audience. Now why this denial;
I'm crying now…
– If you were given a space right now, what project would you upload that would reflect today's situation;
"The Kouluvachata", the work that life itself writes.
– A kind of satire;
I wouldn't say satire. It's kind of a tragedy…
– They say that a great comic actor can play an ancient tragedy just as well. Why didn't you dare?;
Once, when I was in the Art Theatre, Kun put me up, since I begged him, in a tragedy. And with the first sentence I said, they all burst out laughing. Then I realized that my tragedy is laughable…
– You suddenly became tight-lipped…
What can I say; What is there to say;
– How do you view the theater from a distance?;
May I be absent from the public. My absence, however, does not mean anything. There must be many missing !
– Are you saying that today there are people in the theater who have nothing to do with it?;
I believe that the absence would be good for many and above all for the theater itself and our culture.
– You don't even want to play Aristophanes in the summer;
In my dreams, Yes. Think of…
– What else are you thinking?;
That's the way things are, that as time goes by you think that I have been working for so many years and finally what did I do; All you hear is a bitter review. And even for things that were not your fault.
– I don't think the public has ever rewarded you with that kind of criticism.
Yes, Okay. But there are also those tubercles of the horn. I don't know what else they will write, but I don't care either. All I care about is how this place is going to get back on its feet. I have everything else written down!
– The situation we are all experiencing, how you comment on it;
Very nice! THE,what do you need to start cursing!
– How do you deal with this crisis?;
With judgment.
– Do you think the country will get out of the impasse?;
The country was never out. I don't know if it will come out. If you see the things that define our lives politically, culturally, socially, it's banging your head against the wall.
– Do you think we have a new possession;
We are not even under occupation.
– What situation are we in?;
Completely unprotected.
– You, deeply politicized artist, of the great personalities of the modern Greek theater, what do you think should be done to see a white day in this place;
Let's be in the "Wealth" of Aristophanes. More expensive in everything.
– How do you feel when the foreign press makes headlines for our country?;
It seems they understood what we are.
– All these unbearable taxes you pay or resist and disobey;
No matter how disobedient you are, the tax office comes and fucks you.
– What hurts you the most the way things have turned out?;
What hurts me is that everyone makes a fight after the fight is over.
– You could go out into a square and urge your fellow citizens to revolt;
I could do it by addressing theater people. Nevertheless, if there is no ticket, you can't make a revolution. Everything about the ticket is done.
– You remember some other such difficult time;
I don't remember a difficult time for the country, because there was no easy one.
– How are you financially?; Many fellow craftsmen tell you that they are having a hard time, let alone you who are not working now…
We'll see… We are always housewives.
– You also have your axe, which has all the good stuff.
Yes! You must be a householder so as not to disturb society.
– You fear for your children's future;
I fear for the future of all the children. My children do not live outside society and neither can one protect one's children. All you can do is teach them. And unfortunately, the teaching is to make them loathe the world.
