When we dead awaken (GR)
A performance balancing between the realistic and the metaphysical, where five characters all are faced with death.
Directed by Dimitris Karantzas / Art Theatre
Five people faced with death – all trying to come to life again.
The successful sculptor Arnold Rubek has lost his creative power, since his model Irene left him after his refusal to yield to his emotions and to consider her as anything more than a model. Rubek takes his wife Maia to spend their vacation in the mountains of their homeland. During their stay they both have to confront their unhappy marriage – and Rubek is visited by his past when Irene appears. She seems to be in the grip of a “living death”. It all ends in a painfull confrontation – and at the final: A deadly avalanche.
The performance When the Dead Awaken is a research on the dilation and the contraction of time. In a land of entombed vacationing, five performers of different generations attempt to disengage from their restraints and get a glimpse of the Unobtainable.
Ibsen’s text constantly balances between the realistic and the metaphysical, and the five characters are all faced with death – the death itself, the death of properties and the death of youth. They all try to come to life again, free from obstacles, tremors and entanglements. Their struggle is depicted – and at the same time criticized – in the performance through a strong sound dramaturgy and a physically formalistic pattern of ballet-like moves, as if they are craving to perform a pirouette.
Director: Dimitris Karantzas. Translation: Eri Kyrgia. Choreography: Zoi Hatziantoniou. Sound dramaturgy: Dimitris Kamorotos. Set Design: Poulheria Tziova. Costume Design: Ioanna Tsami. Lighting Design: Alekos Anastasiou.
Actors: Alexia Kaltsiki (Nun), Maria Kehagioglou (Maia), Periklis Moustakis (Rubek), Reni Pittaki (Irene), Mihalis Sarantis (Ulfheim), Menelaos Hazarakis (Hotel Manager)