Homeriad is a saga about the non-return, of the battle with nostalgia as a vital necessity for existence.
Inverting the Homeric concept of nostos [longing], Dimitriadis perceives the return – the homecoming – as opposing the destination, and the desire to go back as destructive.
I am Ithaca
I am Odysseus
I am not Ithaca
I am Ithaca
and Odysseus
I am not Odysseus
I am Ithaca
that lost Odysseus
I am Odysseus
who Ithaca lost
I am not Odysseus
I am Ithaca
Odysseus
Ithaca
Odysseus
She killed me
Ithaca
I killed him
Me and him
Her and I
Now […]
The play has been translated into French, Spanish, English, Italian, Russian, German, Portuguese and Arabic.
8 male - 6 female
Flexible
3 male - 3 female
7 male - 2 women
1 male - 2 female
Monologue
6 male - 4 female
7 male - 3 female
8 male - 3 female
4 male - 4 female
5 male - 6 female - 2 children
5 female, 4 male and 4 chorus women
3 male - 2 female
15 (Chorus)
2 male - 3 female
1 male - 2 female
Translation: Elena Delliou
In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertru...
Dimitris Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963, with a scholarship from the Belgian state, he studied theater and cinema in Brussels at the...
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