By Georgios Souris
Dates 14-16 February 2025 7.30pm
TICKETS - email palkosenicotheatre@gmail.com
£10
Under 14 £5
Dates
Friday 14th February 7.30pm
Saturday 15th February 7.30pm
Sunday 16th February 7.30pm
WBDS are happy to bring you a production by Hellenic theatre group “Palkosenico” who presents:
Alas! This is Hellas!
Two plays and three poems in Greek
The performance is in Greek with English subtitles
Crew
Director: Anestis Damianidis
Music: Spyros Lappos
Set Designer: The team
Script Translation: Spyros Lappos
Projector Operation: Panos Pavlakakis
Lights Operation: Georgia Loukou
Poster: Nikos Kaisidis
Box Office: Panos Pavlakakis
Playbill: Anestis Damianidis
Cast
“Anaparadiadis”
Anaparadiadis: Spyros Lappos
Melpomeni: Margarita Papadopoulou
Spathadis: Nikos Kaisidis
“Doesn’t have the qualifications”
Psorilis: Nikos Kaisidis
Kopritis: Anestis Damianidis
Mariori: Margarita Papadopoulou
Waiter: Spyros Lappos
Poems
Taxes: Spyros Lappos
Who saw: Nikos Kaisidis
Chatterbox: Margarita Papadopoulou
The action takes place in Athens in the 1900s.
“Anaparadiadis”
Anaparadiadis, a young lawyer from Athens, is pursued on Aiolou Street by Spathadis, a bailiff and tax collector, who seeks to arrest him in order to collect the business tax. He manages to escape by taking refuge in the house of the Athenian spinster, Melpomene. Unfortunately for him, Melpomene is Spathadis’s sister, who also arrives at the house.
Faced with the risk of arrest and personal detention, Anaparadiadis agrees to marry Melpomene, a marriage forced upon him, in exchange for the payment of his debt. However, Spathadis agrees to take on all the wedding expenses and allows Anaparadiadis to stay hereafter at his house, because he‘s in arrears with his own rent.
“He doesn't have the skills”
Psorilis, a poor swindler falls in love with a beautiful seamstress who intends to marry her, but she imposes a condition on him that he must first be appointed to a public post. However, not having the necessary qualifications and skills, he comes to the need of his friend and member of parliament Kopritis, who does not have a good reputation among the deputies. Trying to convince the MP to appoint him, he blurts out that Mariori has a dowry and shares. Kopritis now has another priority and purpose, but things don’t go according to plan…
Facilities
Free parking
Disabled access (call for information if a wheelchair space is required)
Free hot drinks
Interval drinks (ca £4.00 for glass of wine/beer/G&T)
Soft drinks cans £1
Ice Cream £3
Heated theatre!
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