The theatre audience at the City of Athens Art Gallery on Monday, December 5, experienced a different and powerful museum theatre.
Three different plays took the audience on a journey in today’s and earlier times, focusing on the history of the Gallery building in the context of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe through the engaging narratives of the protagonists, proving the power of the museum theatre.
The first performance by Myrto Plumidi, “Serve this stranger”, which unanimously won the first prize, brought to life two famous painters, Stratis Doukas and Fotis Kontoglou, through a dialogue that shed light on various aspects of the refugee drama and the Metaxourgeio neighbourhood. The second play by AntigoniKatsadima, “Happy Unhappy”, brought to life a lady who lives in the area and visits the Gallery, unfolding at the same time the history of the site and her personal life. Finally, the third play by Fotini Vambouki, “I was not born a refugee”, focuses on the life of a mother who is uprooted with her children from her home in Asia Minor and two women refugees from Constantinople settled in the area of Metaxourgio who remember their old homelands.
All three performances were presented at the exhibition space of the City of Athens Art Gallery, which hosts the exhibition of George Ioannou’s “Internal Route”, which will last until January 29, 2023.