endgame
by Samuel Beckett
June 2017
The show The End of the Game , presented by Facta non Verba, on June 25, 2017 , for five performances,
and was repeated in October of the same year.
The site of the abandoned Yfanet factory in Thessaloniki,
there was the right environment to accommodate the team approach.
The four heroes are in a broken environment,
like in a shelter after the destruction of the world,
as the last survivors.
endGame
by
Samuel
Beckett
• The demolished masonry is the stage environment of the show
of the factory, the worn environment
a worldview that allows the dominance of the human race over nature.
Ecological disaster is pervasive outside
from the shelter with the burnt landscape
after battle and the ash sky
to overshadow any future.
• The vast and empty stage space creates insecurity
both inside and out.
The arrangement of the spectators in the space was a special point that determined
the architecture of the building.
The placement of the audience almost in the center
of this huge semi-outdoor space, created in the viewer, the feeling
the small, the vulnerable and the exposed.
• The sound environment ,
in such a large covered space,
which is circled from a noisy cityscape, takes you
in a future dystopia.
The external audio environment remains
there, however, to remind us of the world
that we left. The directorial approach allowed the external sounds of the city
to invade the theatrical becoming.
This point connected the depth of existence with sound and articulate speech.
The team placed the dystopian framework
of the project in the industrial area
of an abandoned factory, presenting the bankruptcy of capitalism.
The end of Beckett's game may
not have direct political labeling.
The political dimension of this performance by Facta non Verba, however, is underlined and directs the recruitment of the project in a specific direction,
due to the choice of space.
The abandoned Yfanet factory bears a broader political label:
the collapse of the capitalist system.
Through this prism
the work is read.
View by Facta non Verba
at the EndGame
endGame
by
Samuel
Beckett
Contributors:
They play:
Clove: Lena Daga
Ham: Elena Stamatopoulou
Nag: Alexandros Tsonos
Nell: Joanna Peftoulidou
Directed by: Elena Stamatopoulou
Sets-costumes: Facta Non Verba
Lighting: Giannis Stagos
Poster-Program-Form: Gra-fistiki
Posters of the performances
