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Performances Saturday 04.02.2012

• 21:00

  “Foreigner”: Invisible Olga, Austras or Couch Grass

  INVISIBLE OLGA (by Giannis Tsiros) A young immigrant woman becomes the victim of human trafficking and is trapped with no hope of escape from a system with no moral code. AUSTRAS or COUCH GRASS (by Lena Kitsopoulou) A group of young friends invite a tourist in Greece to visit them at home, creating tension between them and bringing about unexpected consequences. Invisible Olga is part of Emergency Entrance, an international theatre project involving the National Theatre of Greece, Teatro Garibaldi (Italy), the Habima National Theatre of Israel, the National Theatre of Prague, the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania) and Schauspielhaus Graz (Austria). Emergency Entrance is funded by the EU Culture Programme 2007-13, in partnership with the Union of the Theatres of Europe. The programme was unveiled in Cluz in December 2010, and all the productions will be performed together at the Emergency Entrance Festival in Graz, Austria from 26 to 29 January 2012.

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• 15:00, 18:00

  Petros’s War

  KATINA PAXINOU CHILDREN’S THEATRE

  On 28 October 1940, war breaks out in Greece, turning the life of nine-year-old Petros upside-down. In the midst of this new and dangerous situation, the young boy sets off on a long walk full of adventure and excitement, through which he will learn to love his country above all else...

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• 20:30

  Pericles

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  Desiring to create a family and a strong state, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, after various adventures, marries Princess Thaisa in the kingdom of Pentapolis. They have a daughter, Marina, but Thaisa apparently dies giving birth. Raised far from her father, the girl is sold to a brothel in Mytilene but her innate innocence protects her from the attentions of male visitors until she and Pericles are reunited...

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• 18:00, 21:00

  Victory

  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...

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• 17:00

  Koutroulis’s Wedding

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  A tailor, Manolis Koutroulis, falls in love with Anthousa, the daughter of a middle-class family, but she only has eyes for Leonidas, a young policeman. To avoid the prospective groom without opposing her father, Anthousa says that she will marry the illiterate Koutroulis on condition that he becomes a minister of state. Koutroulis launches his election campaign, uses every means at his disposal and appears to have achieved the impossible...

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