Phaethon is a one-act play that serves as a parable, introducing the archetypal rivalry of the son with the authoritarian father-Sun in the present time.
Domestic morbidity, terror and violence; the decay of the family’s social core. In Dimitriadis’ play, the ancient Greece and contemporary England blend into each other.
An anatomy of the archetypal familial, social, political, divine and cosmic brutality; the only possibilities of salvation lie in resistance, disobedience, and the real or/and symbolic murder of every Father figure, of every authoritative imperative and emasculating violence.
The action unfolds in a modern middle-class living room in North London. A modern family is entrenched in its suffocating limitations: Hamnet Lom, Julie, Beth, Ann, Lelo; the parents, their two daughters and only son are the main characters, while several others – from the wider friendly and family environment – are recalled through the narrative.
Lelo eventually escapes from the family grip, but only after he murders his father.
The play was first published in French, in 2009. In 2013, it was presented in a directed reading in Paris.
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...
