Facta Non Verba uploaded in May of 2010, the show Balkan Blues ,
μ ια σύνθεση πάνω στην Πυριτιδαποθήκη του Ντέγιαν Ντουκόφσκι
and the Ioanna of the Metro of Vidosav Stevanovic.
The performance was given in the context of the 3rd leftheriakos_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cb
and was the result of the work of theatrical workshop coordinated by that group on_cc781905-5cde-315-b
Snapshots
from the show
Photos: FnV Archive
Balkan Blues
VIDEO
Video of the show: The video recording is from the performances of the extension, on 4/3/2011.
Balkan Blues
From there, the road seems to open up.
In 1945 The Glass World ascends,
which is a great success and is followed by the project Bus of Desire . Around the beginning of the '50s
these two works are transferred to the cinema and are now known to a much wider audience. Here are many projects in which situations and characters are created
from his hectic life. Maybe writing
be for him some kind of purification
and complaint. Beyond the strong psychographic characteristics and the live characters
that he creates, is evident in his works
and a restless conscience with radical political thought but also subtle humor. In Camino Real , through the imaginary metaphorical world full of romantic idealists, an America appears
where according to him 'the spring of humanity has dried up.' To Orpheus in Hades ,
the heroine discovers that her father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan because he could not
to commit racist behavior and action.
The context in which such elaborate characters move is political.
The issue of homosexuality is also included in his works through a political perspective. Himself after
from some failed relationships with women he accepts his sexuality.
He could see the ridiculousness of human existence and perhaps from there springs his humor and his self-sarcasm -5-31
Thomas Lanier Williams, as was his real name
Tennessee Williams, was born in Columbus, Mississippi
in March 1911. He was the second child in the family.
His mother came from an aristocratic family, was beautiful, neurotic and carried a snobbery because of her background.
His father worked as a playboy in a large shoe company and so he was often away from home. Over the years it has developed
a bad relationship with alcohol and its violent outbursts became commonplace. Tom had a very special relationship
with his older sister who was a sensitive person and emotionally vulnerable to the point that he would later lose
her balance, she will be lobotomized and live the rest
of her life in institutions.
His family nurtured and inspired many of
the characters in Tennessee Williams works after
in a way that existed in his life, he also lived in his works.
He was stuck at an early age due to an illness
which paralyzed his limbs and confined him to the house
with only his sister and her governess accompanied.
His father seemed frustrated with the femininity
and the softness he saw in his sick son,
which did not go hand in hand with the tough men of the south
and their 'eloquent' fists. This made his mother turn all her attention to little Tom and boosted the child's imagination as a means of escape at first.
Growing up, he went to study journalism at a good university when he grew up. He was not satisfied and gradually left his studies and sent his poetry and short stories to various literary competitions to try
his luck and maybe get one
small income.
In general it did not go well
to follow a conventional life. In the university clubs he was a shy anti-social young man in front of a typewriter. In the army he could not cope.
His father took him to work
in the shoe factory.
O Tom, 21 years old with a blue collar and monotony from nine to five. Any snobbery
or fantasy had inherited
by his mother, he was demolished during the three or four years he worked there. In order not to feel dead, he promised himself to write something every week, spending the night with coffee, cigarettes.
and typewriter sound.
At 24 his nervous system was severely shaken and so he left work in the factory. His parents are divorcing.
His energy turns again to studies. He studies literature and theater. Takes part
in the collective writing of a work. When he went up
the work something happened inside him.
'Theater saved my life!' he says.
That's when his name changes,
perhaps because of its heavy southern accent.
Balkan Blues
Balkan Blues
Balkan Blues
Some of his works:
Text published in Facta non Verba ,
a periodical for collective creation, in issue # 21.
ink _ Lena Daga
Speak to me like the rain (1953)
Tearful Cat (1955)
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
Something Unspeakable (1958)
Sweet bird of youth (1959)
Adaptation period (1960)
The Night of the Iguana (1961)
The Last Visitor (1963)
Tragic harlequin (1966)
The Kingdom of the Earth (1968)
At a hotel bar
in Tokyo (1969)
Mr. Merrigueder will be back
from Memphis? (1969)
Fugitive (1937)
Spring Storm (1937)
Not in Aidonia (1938)
Battle of the Angels (1940)
The portrait of Madonna (1941)
Lady Fthyrosol (1941)
Glass World (1944)
You Touched Me (1945)
Towards Demolition (1946)
Stairs to the Roof (1947)
Bus the Desire (1947)
Summer and Gloom (1948)
Rose in the Chest (1951)
Camino Real (1953)
Little Smart Warnings (1972)
Work for two people (1973)
The sign of the devil (1975)
This Is Fun (1976)
Vieux Carre (1977)
Tiger Tail (1978)
A Wonderful Sunday for Excursion (1979)
Clothes for summer hotel (1980)
The Diaries of Trigorin (1980)
Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
Ruined house (1982)
Greetings from Bertha
The Mimosas case
American Blues
After the 60's and after difficult situations and losses, his turn to drink
and drugs sharpened. Especially after the death of his partner (Frank Philip Merlot)
fell into melancholy that intensified with the fear that he, like his sister, would cross the line
of madness. He underwent the treatment of Dr. Jacobson (or Dr Feelgood) who combined
amphetamines with sedatives to 'cure'.
Transmission information of this system from which he could not escape, there are
and in the play Suddenly Last Summer , where the heroine faces the possibility of lobotomy
because he is simply telling the truth.
He once said about the role of the artist 'To be an Artist is to be a Revolutionary',
words that some feared and others misunderstood.
Tennessee Williams died at the hotel where he was staying in February 1983.
Tennessy Williams
Balkan Blues
Balkan Blues
Contributors:
Direction-video: Elena Stamatopoulou
Lighting: Giannis Stagos
Distribution (in order of appearance): _ cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
Miss Margarita:
Maria Savvidou
Penny Tsikura
Eleni Goupatsa
Panagiotis Sideridis
Student: Diogenes
