Women that Became One with the Earth

Sat Oct 04, 2014

20:30

Location

Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus
Manor House on Axiotheas Steet
Old Nicosia
Nicosia, Nicosia

Phone: 22894531

Description

The performance “Women that Became One with the Earth” comprises seven popular narratives of women from Epirus, which refer mainly to the period around 1940 and have been recorded by the writer Georgia Skopouli (“Those Who Became One with the Earth”, Dodoni 2008).

Several rural women marked by the elements of nature, by poverty, war, civil war, exile, the cruelty of men, talk about their lives in a plain language, sincere and true, reviving a Greece that we have almost forgotten.

These illiterate women share their experiences with dignity and faith in life, but above all without bitterness and hatred, turning their troubled lives into a song.

Theatrical adaptation, interpretation: Marinella Vlachaki
Video: Thodoris Papadoulakis, Giannis Kritikos
Adaptation of folksongs: Leonidas Maridakis
Vocals: Leonidas Maridakis, Danae Botik

Ticket price: €10
Students/Discounted tickets: €5
Ticket card for all September – October events: €40

For information and reservations:
Monday to Friday 9.30 – 13.30
Tel. 22894531-2
e-mail: culture@ucy.ac.cy