Halepas: August 16 at the 8th Andros International Festival
Onassis
Stegi
Halepas
Directed by: Argyro Chioti
Libretto: The Boy
At the 8th Andros International Festival at the Open Theater of Chora
Tuesday, August 16, 2022, time 21:00
Gianoulis Halepas, the ascetic figure of Greek sculpture whom some called "Rotin of Greece" and others "holy, crazy and cursed artist", meets the directorial gaze of Argyros Chiotis and the writing of TheBoy.
"Maybe you were right after all and it would have been better if I hadn't dreamed of the statue that would save the world."
From his birth in the village of Pyrgos on the island of Tinos – amid the marble slabs and plentiful dust of his family’s stone cutting workshop – through to his legendary sculpture of the “Sleeping Maiden” that stands inside the First Cemetery of Athens. And from his breakdown, his committal to a psychiatric hospital, and his many years spent in isolation up in the mountains of his island, through to his spiritual awakening and the sweeping renaissance that characterized his old age. As he himself said: “The new (old man) Halepas outdid the old (young man).”
Through dream-like illusions, Argyro Chioti walks to the difficult path that was the sculptor’s life, always between silence and absurdity, stillness and creativity, presenting the contemporary music tragedy “Halepas” with a libretto by The Boy, music by Jan Van Angelopoulos, set designs by Efi Birba and an exceptional ensemble cast.
Cast
Libretto: TheBoy
Conception & Direction: Argyro Chioti
Music Composition & Sound Design: JanVanAngelopoulos
Stage installation & costume design: Efi Birba
Lighting Design: Tasos Paleoroutas
Physical preparation: Hara Kotsali
Rehearsal advisor: Aliki Stenou
Efthymis Theou's dramaturgy consultant
Artistic collaborator Nefeli Giotis
Music preparation advisor: Katia Molfesi
Sound technical editing by Nikos Kollias
Costume making: SANDI COUTOURE atelier
Artistic partner: Efthymis Theou
First Assistant Director: Katerina Kotsou
Stage designer's assistant: VasiaLyris
Costume designer assistant: Alexandros Garnavos
Second Assistant Director: Konstantinos Kardakaris
Performed by (in alphabetical order): Simos Kakalas, Hara Kotsali, Antonis Myriagos, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Aliki Stenou, Dimitris Sotiriou, Argyro Chioti, Tzorgina Chryskioti
Production Execution: Maria Dourou / VASISTAS
Production: Onassis Foundation Roof
Co-production: ERTEmiliaRomagnaTeatro (Italy)
Performance information
Organisation: Andros International Festival
Open theater of Chora Andros
Tuesday 16 August 2022, 21:00
Performance duration: 75 minutes
TICKET PRICES:
GENERAL ADMISSION 15 EUROS
STUDENT, UNEMPLOYED, DISABLED 13 EUROS
