Victory

by Loula Anagnostaki

ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE

Having been violently uprooted from their homeland, Nikos, his sister and their mother live in an industrial town in Germany, along with a large number of Greek immigrants. In the family's efforts to survive, they attempt to forget the past and adapt to a different way of life and social conventions. However, Greece and its raw wounds are hard to escape...
Victory, written by Loula Anagnostaki in 1978, marks her move towards a more realistic form of writing, without betraying the deeply poetic outlook that runs through all her works. Stripped of melodrama but shot through with a very Greek form of civil strife, Victory is a bold and dispassionate critique of the political blind alleys that have plagued our recent history. The considerable directing experience of Victor Ardittis and an excellent cast of actors combine to bring one of the most significant works of post-war Greek theatre to the stage.