Following last season’s successful run at the Experimental Stage for Emerging Artists, Christos Vakalopoulos’s The Line of the Horizon, directed by the valedictorian of the National Theatre of Greece Drama School Directing Department, Giorgos Pavlou, comes to the Hora Theatre.

“A story of escape” was how the prematurely deceased author (but also critic, essayist, director and radio producer) described perhaps his most mature work, which was largely based on his own experiences. A 32-year-old woman, Rea Frantzi, is at a pivotal moment in her life: she has just got divorced – without knowing why – and takes refuge on Patmos, the deeply spiritual island where John the Divine wrote the Book of Revelations, and where she painfully takes stock of her life. This involves not only reckoning up her personal losses, but also bidding farewell to a generation that has given in, an Athens that has lost all sense of itself, a Greece consumed by materialism, and a society that has surrendered its identity to superficiality.