Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki
13 July, 21:00
 
Making MYTHOS?!—A European project for the contemporary Greek play
 
Discussion on the MYTHOS?! project and the performance of Bound / Gefesselt by Natassa Sideri, directed by Janis Knorr of the Regensburg Theatre.
 
Exactly a year ago, Theater Regensburg and National Theatre of Northern Greece joined together to establish “M Y T H O S ?!”, an international competition for contemporary Greek Drama. Out of 126 texts a bi-national jury decided on Bound by Natassa Sideri - a play written in 2015 in the height of the financial Crisis at a time when the Greek and German governments were busy discussing the future of Greece in Brussels. 
 
Bound tells the story of indebted Nephos helping his friends Callios and Pyrra with renovation work. However, over time their relationship turns around, increasingly centering the powerplay of financial dependence until Nephos loses his very freedom. Can daughter Petalia flee to live a different life? 

“A kind of poetic justice”, author Natassa Sideri commented on the world Premiere taking place in Germany at Theater Regensburg in June of 2022. The artistic team around director Janis Knorr and stage and costume designer Ariella Karatolou brought Bound to stage as an atmospheric parable on the brutality of capitalism. Now, the team presents the production and the process of MAKING M Y T H O S ?! as part of the 4th International Forest Festival organized by the National Theatre of Northern Greece.

Which new alliances were established? How was the production process of Bound? And what happens when a binational theatre project looks back on our shared newest history? 

Together with the audience Natassa Sideri (author), Janis Knorr (director), Zelal Kapçık (actor) and Guido Wachter (actor), Maria Lazaridou (international relations NTNG), Stella Papadimitriou (dramaturge and jury member), Laura Mangels (dramaturge) and Amalia Kondoyanni (head of artistic production and literary department at NTNG), join in for a conversation on the power of European arts in time of crisis.

The performance of Bound is available on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th of July between 18:00-23:59 on on.ntng.gr.