Love is the basic pattern that Dimitriadis poses, exposes and transposes in this play, via a series of dysfunctional relationships which he pushes to their limits; a woman who left the marital home returns, and her husband avenges her with epic cruelty; a woman kills both her husband and her lover; a man shoots his psychotherapist/lover; the love triangle of the gay couple who share the same lover is proven utterly surreal: they kill and cut him up, so that each one can have half of his body.
The play is not exhausted in a mundane metaphor about passion as an impossible momentum, but explores the possibility of escape from the vicious circle. Thus the repetition; her role is other than to simply confirm Fate’s dominance.
There are four acts, each one “divided” in two: the square and the circle. We start with the square and finish in the circle.
Published and premiered in French, in 2010 – Odeon theatre, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti. Released in Greek in 2013, by Nefeli publications.
PLAYS
The Price of Resistance in the Black Market, 1968
8 male - 6 female
Dying As a Country, 1978
Flexible
The Beginning of Life, 1995
3 male - 3 female
The Stunning of Animals before the Slaughter, 2000
7 male - 2 women
Settlement Proceedings, 2003
1 male - 2 female
Insenso, 2007
Monologue
Chrysippus, 2008
6 male - 4 female
Touching the Seabed, 2008
7 male - 3 female
The Circle of the Square, 2009
8 male - 3 female
Interest, 2010
4 male - 4 female
Civilization: A Cosmic Tragedy, 2013
5 male - 6 female - 2 children
Evacuation, 2013
5 female, 4 male and 4 chorus women
Phaethon, 2009
3 male - 2 female
In Chorus, 2015
15 (Chorus)
Reaping, 2016
2 male - 3 female
Stroheim, 2015
1 male - 2 female
ESSAYS
DIMITRIS DIMITRIADIS' THEATRE
Translation: Elena Delliou
In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertru...
In Chorus by Dimitris DImitriadis
Dimitris Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. In 1963, with a scholarship from the Belgian state, he studied theater and cinema in Brussels at the...
