AUTHOR - DIRECTOR
Prodromos Tsinikoris PRODUCTION
National Theatre of Northern Greece Schaubühne
La Joven Too Far East
Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ)
Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) VENUE
Lazaristes Monastery – Studio Theatre
Photos
Mike Rafail
Eleni Stroulia
MADRID 11.07.24 FOR/WITH/BY Festival of European Youth Theatre, Teatro de La Abadía
“If you want your wound to be healed, then show it..." In the 65 minutes of the performance, Thessaloniki is showing its wounds to its own people, thanks to the field research, the reality of numbers, the balanced dramaturgy of the live narration. Thessaloniki is accepting its own past. Thessaloniki stands stunned in front of unshakable evidence of property grabbing, humiliations, systematic actions that aimed to wipe out the non-Christian (but very much Greek) Jewish community from the face of the earth, assisting Nazi Germany, the great initiator of the "final solution".
The evidence was incredible and meticulously documented through archives, publications, thousands of photographs, plenty of audios, testimonies, interviews. We are talking about many months of work with perseverance and patience that has turned into a text with carefully balanced emotional qualities, a clear stand and a special (and needed) kind of humour.
