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Gefesselt/Δεσμώτης

Theater of Regensburg | Germany, Greece

Start Date: 02-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 02-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 03-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 03-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 04-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 04-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 09-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 09-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 10-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 10-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 11-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 11-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 12-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 12-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)Start Date: 13-07-2022 - 18:00 (17:00 CET)
End Date: 13-07-2022 - 23:59 (22:59 CET)

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2, 3, 4 και 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 July, 18:00 – 23:59

Gefesselt/Δεσμώτης
Bound
by Natassa Sideri
Winner of M Y T H O S ?! drama competition - Theater Regensburg in cooperation with NTNG.

When Nephos is about to lose his house for financial reasons, his college friend Callios lends him money. That's what friends are for! And Callios and his wife Pyrra would like to renovate their house anyway, so Nephos could help! But Pyrra and Callios quickly let their power over Nephos become the maxim of their relationship. In Callios' and Pyrra’s world, debts are to be paid back - with interest! But because Nephos works unpaid for the family, his financial hardship increases. Ultimately the supposedly friendly couple robs him of everything, even his freedom. Only Petalia, the daughter of Callios and Pyrra, reveals what her parents are up to: to push Nephos' dependence to the limit. And while Nephos is bound like the ancient Prometheus on the home dining table, Petalia sets out to seek freedom.

The young Greek author Natassa Sideri wrote Bound during the financial crisis in Greece and the negotiations in Brussels on Greece's future in the European Union.

The artistic team consisting of director Janis Knorr, stage and costume designer Ariella Karatolou and musician Thorsten Drücker brings Bound to stage as an atmospheric parable on powerplay in Εurope and on the brutality of capitalism.

Duration: 76΄

Language: German
Subtitles: English, Greek

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Gefesselt/Δεσμώτης
Bound
by Natassa Sideri
Winner of M Y T H O S ?! drama competition- Theater Regensburg in cooperation with NTNG.

Direction: Janis Knorr
Dramaturgy: Laura Mangels and Guido Wachter
Stage and Costume design: Ariella Karatolou
Lighting design: Martin Stevens
Music: Thorstem Drücker

On stage:
Kallios - Guido Wachter
Pyrra - Amèlie Miloy
Nephos - Philipp Quest
Petalia- Zelal Kapçık

Kindly supported by Goethe-Institut and Theaterfreunde Regensburg e.V.

Natassa Sideri was born in Athens in 1981. She is a playwright, writer and translator. Her first plays were written and performed in English, while she was living in London and Berlin. In 2013, her debut play, On the Bridge, won a playwriting competition organized by the theatre group Origins, and was subsequently staged for a number of performances at various venues across England. Her second play, The Island of Immortality, won the 2014 Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation competition, was produced by The Certainty of Chance Theatre Company and toured the UK in September 2014. In 2015, she attended the Playwriting Studio offered by the National Theatre of Greece, in the course of which she wrote Titanomachies which was subsequently included in the National Theatre’s 2017 programme. In 2019, she was named Best New Voice in Fiction for her short story collection Kyriarxoi Poniroi Logismoi (Mov Skiouros, 2021) at the annual Anagnostis awards; while in 2021 she was awarded the first prize at the MYTHOS ?! competition, organized jointly by the National Theater of Northern Greece and Stadttheater Regensburg in 2021 for her play Desmotis (staged in Germany as Gefesselt). Also in 2021, her play To Koino Kalo was produced as a radio play by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.