Previous Performances
2019–2025 "A Wonderful Day" — for audiences aged 3 and above
Theater with dance and live music, ages 3+
From a very early age, we begin to form habits and routines that offer us security and a sense that everything is under control.
Sometimes, however, we lose control and then it is as if the ground is falling out from under our feet, we lose our logic, our balance, even our words.
Then it is time to rediscover the world, our relationships, to connect with what surrounds us, some of it perhaps for the first time, and to encounter the words of the poet: Here let me stand. And let me see nature a little too (C.P. Cavafy, “Sea of the Morning”).
*The performance is part of the Mapping – a map on the aesthetics of performing arts for early years program, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Creative Europe.
**The performance was part of the Mapping – a map on the aesthetics of performing arts for early years program and was supported by Creative Europe and the Ministry of Culture and Sports. Premiere: Hellwach International Theater Festival, Hamm, Germany, June 2021.
Duration: 40’
Director: Marilena Triantafyllidou
Dramaturgy: Katerina Alexaki
Music: Vasilis Kazis
Set & Costume Design: Georgia Bourda
Lighting: Giorgos Agiantis
Performance: Vasilis Kazis, Kleoniki Karachaliou, Maria Baloutsou
Video: ORKI / Stefanos Kosmidis
2022: "Camp 22", for teens and adults
How important is history for young people?
Are we forgetting history?
What does the past have to do with the present and the future?
When does our personal history become History?
Can we become observers and authors of a story that is being written now?
These questions and many more are answered by the site-specific, devised theatrical performance “Camp 22” for teenagers and adults, which focuses on various aspects of history. Because we create stories ourselves, whether we actively participate in them or remain spectators. To preserve them in our memory, we photograph every moment that we want to remind us of where we were, who we were with, and how we were. The performance is followed by an action-discussion during which the therapeutic function of the image is used as a basic tool for retrieving memories and expressing emotions.
*The performance was held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor catastrophe, as part of the 2022 program of the “All of Greece, One Culture” of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, with the support of the region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace / Regional Unit of Drama, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Drama, and the Municipality of Drama. It was presented on August 2 and 3, 2022, at the Byzantine Walls of Drama.
It was presented on August 2 and 3, 2022, at the Byzantine Walls of Drama.
Duration: 40’
Concept – Research – Direction: Katerina Alexaki, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Dramaturgy: Katerina Alexaki, Irini Moundraki, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Original Music Compositions: Vasilis Kazis, Petros Koumbios
Set & Costume Design: Georgia Bourda
Lighting: Giorgos Agiantitis
Action Coordinator: Maria Halari
Performance: Katerina Alexaki, Vasilis Kazis, Kleoniki Karachaliou, Petros Koumbios, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Photographs: Spyros Perdios, Konstantinos Zoupidis
Production Organization: Artika
2021-2022, 2019-2020: "Comes and Goes", theatre with live music for spectators from 1,5 years old.
Theater with dance and live music for audiences aged 1.5 and up
A couple lives together in the same house and shares moments of love, anxiety, and carefreeness. But what happens when one of them leaves?
Separation from anything we love, whether in childhood or adulthood, is always difficult. Even as infants, we need to learn that every time our mother or caregiver is out of sight, they are not gone forever!
Our performance speaks in a simple way about the difficulty of separation from the familiar, the fear of loneliness, and the creative side of becoming independent.
Concept – Direction: Marilena Triantafyllidou
Performance: Maria Baloutsou, Vasilis Kazis
Set & Costume Design: Gelina Palla
Music: Vasilis Kazis
Lighting: Giorgos Agiantitis
Props / Lighting Operator: Stamatis Tsimpidis
Production Organization: Artika
2021-2022, 2019-2020,: “A maiden goes to war", for children 6+
The story of the Girl Who Goes to War takes us back to a time when fighting was only for men. Thus, the heroine must find a way to defend not only the honor of her family and her homeland, but also her own identity and need for self-fulfillment. But how will she manage to survive in this world and prove her worth?
The fairy tale is based on the true story of Antonousa Kastanakis from the village of Kera in Chania, and was created after being commissioned by the Rokkas Festival, Kera a Stage of Crete, August 2021
Story: Katerina Alexaki
Direction – Performance: Katerina Alexaki, Vasilis Kazis
Music: Vasilis Kazis
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2013 - 2014: "Good night day", for children 1-4 years old.
Theatrical performance for children aged 1 to 4
Two young children, just before going to sleep, meet under a huge blanket to share the wonderful things they experienced today…
Original Idea: Katerina Alexaki
Direction: Katerina Alexaki, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Performance: Rebecca Gogou, Aphrodite Mitsopoulou
Set & Costume Design: Maria Bah
Music: Vasilis Kazis
Lighting: Giorgos Agiantitis
Performance Duration: 40 minutes
2009: “A boy made of paper", for children 3-6 years old
Theatrical performance for children aged 3-6
A story about a little boy made of blank paper who, guided by his thoughts and dreams, will create his own colors, with which he will paint himself as he wishes, thus making his dream come true.
Text: Vasiliki Nomidou
Direction: Katerina Alexaki
Performance: Evangelia Kozoni, Vasiliki Nomidou
Set & Costume Design: Maria Bah
Lighting: Panagiotis Psichas
0-3 in prison (2008) on Kinky Kong- Μultimedia performance.
This is a visual and textual insight into the lives of mothers and their babies who grow up in women’s prisons in Thebes, Greece. Funding for the production was provided by the European Community and the Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Welfare.
Text – Direction: Our Team
Performance: Katerina Alexaki, Emilia Zafeiradou, Vasiliki Nomidou, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Visual installation – video: Antigone Pasidi
2008: "A Brave New World", for children 3-6 years old
In the beginning, there is conception, and the story that follows is astonishing! Within nine months, the tiny creature transforms from a small cluster of cells into a baby!
So that’s where it all begins, in mommy’s belly. There, this little creature sleeps, wakes up, moves, swallows, hiccups, coughs, exercises, eats, opens and closes its eyes, and perceives sounds and even light from behind the wall of the womb. Full of vitality, it grows and swims carefree until the day of its big “exit” into the world:
The baby’s life will never be the same as before. The things it knew without ever wondering “how” will have to be learned from scratch: breathing, swallowing, supporting its head, moving. And later, it will have to become aware, communicate, and form its own independent personality. And the story continues…
Director: Katerina Alexaki
Performance: Emilia Zafeiropoulou
Set & Costume Design: Maria Bah
Lighting: Panagiotis Psichas
2007: "My own umbrella", for children 1,5 to 3 years old
In this performance, young viewers are invited on a journey into the world of first sensations, memory, and all the sweet things that accompany us throughout our lives. There are two heroes: a girl who dreams or plays, and a creature that may be real or imaginary. The world they create together is round, funny, frozen, mysterious, crazy, bright, colorful, musical…
The journey begins when the girl closes her eyes. The two heroes will return to the sea that will take them to the land of ice, and when the ice melts, they will find themselves in the forest where they will part ways. When the girl opens her eyes, she is alone, or almost alone. The friend she made on the journey is gone, but everything he left behind, real and imaginary, remains.
Director: Katerina Alexaki
Cast: Emilia Zafeiradou, Marilena Triantafyllidou
Set & Costume Design: Maria Bah
Lighting: Lefteris Pavlopoulos