Sunday 17 May 2020 20:30
The online event is canceled due to technical reasons.
On Sunday May 17, at 20.30, excerpts from the iconic novel Kassandra and the Wolf by Margarita Karapanou will be presented, in live broadcast from the SNFCC Lighthouse, by Maria Kehayioglou and Elina Rizou under Dimitris Karantzas's direction.
Read more: snfcc.org/karapanou
On Sunday May 17 at 20.30, in live broadcast from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) Lighthouse and without the presence of an audience, Karyofyllia Karabeti and Giannis Klinis perform the iconic play 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, under the directorial guidance of Dimitris Karantzas.
Parabases, the SNFCC Reader's Theater, realized thanks to an exclusive grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), continues online its survey of pioneering voices in literature, theater and poetry, focusing on women.
“Sarah Kane died tragically. Everyone's aware, to varying degrees, of the cruelty of mankind, but we manage to compromise with it, put it on the shelf and not think about it for a good part of the day. But I don't think she could do that. She was so naked, and her work was evidently so naked. She had no protective skins at all,” wrote Harold Pinter for the most iconic playwright of the British "in-yer-face" theater.
Overshadowed by her impending suicide, in 1998 Sarah Kane wrote 4.48 Psychosis – a landmark of contemporary playwriting distinguished by its linguistic intensity, vertiginous structure and frightening death. It conjures the innermost thoughts of someone who is about to take their own life. Although Sarah Kane does not specify the setting – though the title suggests a psychiatric hospital at 04:48 a.m., the time when suicides peak, statistically speaking – the playwright ingeniously divides the monologue among the inner voices that well up inside a person at such a defining moment in their lives.
In Dimitris Karantzas’s staging version, Karyofyllia Karabeti and Giannis Klinis alternate in the roles of doctor and patient onstage.
Line-up:
Translated into Greek by: Roula Pateraki, Antonis Galeos
Staged by: Dimitris Karantzas
Performed by: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Giannis Klinis
Audio environment: Yorgos Poulios
4.48 Psychosis, translated into Greek by Roula Pateraki and Antonis Galeos, is kindly provided by the translators.
The event is realized without the presence of an audience and according to the highest possible safety measures, with priority the security of SNFCC’s partners and employees.
Watch Parabases live at snfcc.org/kane and on SNFCC facebook page @SNFCC, on Sunday 17/05 at 20.30 (in Greek).
The event is not suitable for children under 14 years old without parental consent.
The digital content created in the context of SNFCC events programming was realized thanks to a donation by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
