ΑΛΙΜΟΝΟ ΜΟΥ, ΕΣΕΙΣ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΜΟΥ,
ΚΑΙ ΑΛΙΜΟΝΟ ΜΟΥ, ΕΣΕΙΣ ΓΟΝΕΙΣ ΜΟΥ,
ΚΙ ΕΣΥ, ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ ΠΟΥ ΕΡΕΙΠΩΘΗΚΕΣ,
ΠΝΙΓΜΕΝΗ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΠΝΟ
ΚΙ ΕΓΩ ΣΚΛΑΒΑ ΣΕ ΞΕΝΗ ΓΗ.
I cry for my children,
I cry for my fathers and my country
which collapses in the smoke
of the fire, and, in foreign land, they call me slave
- Euripides
What does remain of war when war is over?
What does remain of war when war is over? What does remain of the battlefield when the battle withdrew? What about the defeated that History forgets? How to re-fertilize a violated land? We go looking for those vestiges, rubble, and defeats that war has left behind. We borrow the story of the capture of Troy and its damage to tell our contemporary history and that of this island in the Aegean Sea, Milos, which has spanned the millennia, just like the myth itself.
After the Greek’s victory, it was horror, abandonment, ruins… but certainly not silence. Once again, we tell the Trojan women’s destiny, drown by the Greek heroes and condemned to exile, in order to reinvent it.
The colonial veneer of vini, vidi, vici collapses today before our eyes and voices.
Captives is a fable based on Euripides’ tragedies Hecuba and The Trojan Women, as well as the Homeriad and Lethe by Dimitris Dimitriadis.
Greek songs from the past and present come to sew and untie everything. Contemporary voices respond as an echo to the ancestral myth… The voices of the poets and those of the performers sharing the stories of their own bounds with this island…
Captives is a story of multiple voices carrying vestiges of a postponed future, desire traces put on hold, frustrations in motion, seedless love, war and drama…
CREDITS
Concept, adaptation, staging and musical direction: Marcus Borja
Artistic collaboration, translator and performer: Magdalena Ioannidi
Decoration and accessories: Solène Fourt
Sound creation: Jonathan Martin
Staging and dramaturgy assistant: Antoine Maitrias
© Crédit photos : Darya Sheizaf
In collaboration with the actors:
Jules Bisson, Ruy Buchholtz, Cécile Feuillet, Thierry Forte, Claire Ganaye, Magdalena Ioannidi, Iris Karampatea, Alexandros Kasapidis, Elisabet Kourti, Masoussos Ksidous, Servane Io le Moller, Elpida Mountsaki and Danaï Tezapsidou
Thanks:
Solal Forte, Danaï Tezapsidou, Jean-François Dubos, Bertrand Cosson
