I was Lysistrata-unless

“… I’m coming down of the stands, I run, I yell, I push, I climb on stage, the audience applauds, I’m an old joke that got tired of hearing all these years the same and same, same …”

The Center of Performing Arts MITOS presents the “I was the Lysistrata_unless (from Mouttallos to Mpania),” on Friday 1st of July under the “Hero-isms”, a two-year artistic project in the frame of European Capital of Cultural Paphos 2017 official program.

The “I was Lysistrata,” a text for the scene by Limassolian author Antonis Georgiou, completed the first cycle of performances directed by Lukas Walewski in Limassol and Nicosia during Spring of 2016, and displays the Lysistrata in today talking about her failure to stop war, violence, pain. For the action of 1st of July, the performance will be transformed, as a new version, with four microphones, which will be presented the afternoon in the square of Mouttallos and that evening will be screened in the Mpania area in Kato Paphos.

Through the “Hero-isms” MITOS tries to discuss the wounds and our denials as war legacies. In the secluded area of Mouttallos – just a few kilometers from Paphos center – reconstructed this time the square as another attempt to find the identity and use. The current residents of the community, Greek Cypriot refugees, mainly due to the temporality of their stay, even seeking their relationship with the place. The meeting, acceptance and collective expression still are in ‘crisis’. Can public space rediscover its function?

The “Hero-isms” also include artistic residency at Grotowski Institute in Poland, in collaboration with the E.C.C. Wroclaw 2016 in September 2016, based on the chorus parts of “Persians” by Aeschylus with artists from Cyprus, Greece and Poland and a presentation on September 16 in Wroclaw, September 23 at the Ethnographic Museum in Paphos, 24 and 25 September at the Old Vinegar Factory in Limassol. Finally, in the Spring of 2017 will present the play “The Persians” by Aeschylus.

CREDITS
Direction / adaptation: Lukas Walewski
Dramaturge / Assistant Director: Konstantina Peter
Cast: Marina Mandri, Andria Zeniou, Elena Kallinikou and Marina Makris
Graphics: Andrea Christoforou
Curators of the event: Elena Agathokleous, Lukasz Walewski and Constantina Peter
Programme Coordinator “Hero-isms”: Elena Agathokleous

INFORMATION
Friday, July 1st , 2016
Square Mouttallos 18:00 to 19:00
Mpania area 20:30 to 21:30
Programme Hero-isms, two-year program in the frame of E.C.C. Paphos 2017
Action: I was Lysistrata_unless (from Mouttallo in Bathrooms)
Free entrance
Information: 99 985232
facebook: Ηρωι- σμοί Hero-isms