I Want a Different Country — World Theatre Day 2019

About the performance

I Want a Different Country…

ΑΛΜΑ, participating in the celebration of World Theatre Day organized for the second consecutive year by all Greek theatrical groups in Brussels on March 27, 2019 at the Theatre 'de Lijsterbes', presented a composition entitled "I Want A Different Country…", based on the play "I want a country" by Andreas Flourakis.

After the warm reception of our first show, its increasingly relevant messages — it is no coincidence that in the approximately 6 years of the play's life, it has already been presented several times both in Greece and abroad, among others in the UK, the USA, Italy, Germany, India and Mexico — but also the creative flexibility it offers, led us to the decision to "create" "I Want a Different Country…", with an abbreviation of the text, with a mostly new group of actors than that of the first performance and a different directorial approach, which focuses more on the collective cry of agony of the individuals looking for a new country.

Creative Team

Directed byChrysa Baltzaki – Kyprianos Moutevelis

Cast

Christos Aivaliotis, Eleni Andreadou, Stella Daravigou, Alexandros Zervakis, Emilia Kitsiou, Gianna Kyriakoudi, Antonia Malainou, Grigoris Mastoras, Faye Papantoniou, Maria Papoulia, Apostolos Sarantidis, George Fotinidis-Rethemiotakis

WORLD THEATRE DAY 2019 — Joint Celebration by the Eight Greek Theatrical Groups of Belgium

Eight Greek theatre groups each presented a small theatrical creation to celebrate World Theatre Day. The event was prefaced by Mr. Stratis Panourios, Actor and Director of the National Theatre of Greece.

The event was dedicated to the late George Andronidis (09/08/1924 – 22/06/2018), a founding member of the Hellenic Theatre of Belgium, with an active and uninterrupted presence in the theatrical events of Brussels for over 25 years, in recognition of his talent and contribution.

Excerpts from works by D. Kechaidis, P. Mentis, T. Papageorgiou, E. Tsolakidis, A. Flourakis, D. Psathas and the theatrical group ex-animo were presented in a single performance.

The participating teams (in alphabetical order):

ΑΛΜΑ
Atelier Theatrale of Brussels
Greek Theatre of Belgium
Hellenic Community of Brussels
THESPIS Brussels
Lykeio Ellinidon of Brussels
NOTA THEATRAL
Y-GREC

The above Greek theatre groups in Belgium organised a joint celebration of World Theatre Day for the second time in 2019. This day is March 27 every year, established in 1962 by the International Theatre Institute, established in 1948 in Prague on the initiative of UNESCO, and celebrated in more than 100 countries.

This year, the global message was written by renowned Cuban director, playwright and theatre professor Carlos CELDRÁN:

"My theatrical homeland lies in those moments of meeting the spectators who arrive at our theatre night after night, from the most varied corners of my city, to accompany us and share some hours, a few minutes. My life is built up from those unique moments when I cease to be myself, to suffer for myself, and I am reborn and understand the meaning of the theatrical profession: to live instants of pure ephemeral truth, where we know that what we say and do, there under the stage lights, is true and reflects the most profound, most personal, part of ourselves. My theatrical country, mine and that of my actors, is a country woven from such moments, where we leave behind the masks, the rhetoric, the fear of being who we are, and we join hands in the dark."