Kassandra

- A stand-up tragedy in broken English -

Using the mythical Cassandra of Greek tragedy, playwright Sergio Blanco creates a one woman tour-de-force.

Kassandra, wearing red patent-leather boots, reveals her Odyssey. Sex, war, and power, winners and losers. In her off-kilter immigrant English, she talks about our own search for meaning and hope. Tears and laughter, sarcasm and humour, Euripides and Bugs Bunny. The distance between myth and reality, performer and audience, space and text collapses.

Kassandra is performed in broken English by a protagonist who is simultaneously the Cassandra of ancient Greek tragedy and a transsexual immigrant prostitute in any city of the 21st century – an exile in her own body, a strager in every country.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. When she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions. She predicted Troy’s destruction.

In the Greek language, Cassandra signifies the messenger bearing dreadful news.

In this way, the voice of Blanco’s Kassandra becomes the symbol of the contemporary, not only Greek but also global, crisis.

Author: Sergio Blanco

Direction: Despoina Sarafeidou - Evangelia Andritsanou

Costumes: Loukia Minetou

Music selected by: Vasilis Tsonoglou

Photos / Lights: Dimitris Gerakitis

Graphic design: Dennis Spearman

Trailer: Christos Mouroukis

Kassandra: Despoina Sarafeidou

Production team: Theodoros Kagkelaris, Thanos Kappas, Alexis Karatzas, Eleni Karra, Christina Kouli, Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Eleni Panitska, Tzeni Paraskevopoulou, Anneta Pylarinou, Antonis Rokakis, Toula Stavrakoudi, Maria-Xenia Stylianou, Larissa Vergou

1+1=1 theatre company

Duration: 60 min

Video trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RdGJWs5EKM&feature=youtu.be

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