"The diary of a scoundrel at the Kotopouli Stage Alexander Ostrovskys hilarious comedy opens on 14 February
12.2.2009
"The diary of a scoundrel"
by Alexander Ostrovsky
A hilarious comedy at the Kotopouli Stage
From Saturday 14 February
Determined to make a success of himself, young Glumov uses every means at his disposal, including flattery, declarations of love, slavish devotion and every kind of slander to marry into a wealthy family and thus secure his entrance into high society. Glumov makes ambitious plans and works methodically. In his secret diary he records all the frauds, scandals and dirty linen of high society. Everything is going according to plan until his aunt discovers the diary and all is revealed. Glumovs plans are ruined, but it is too late for him to change his behaviour
How far will one man go to achieve wealth and power? This masterpiece by Alexander Ostrovsky, one of the pioneers of Russian realism, is almost unknown in Greece, and is now being produced for the first time by the GNT. Beneath its merciless comic sensibility and breakneck action, the play is a harsh critique of vacuity, vapidity and vanity.
The production
Translation: Leonidas Karatzas
Direction: Giannis Kakleas
Set design: Manolis Pantelidakis
Costume design: Eleni Manolopoulou
Musical supervision: Iakovos Drosos
Movement: Kyriakos Kosmidis
Lighting design: Sakis Birbilis
Cast
Giannis Dalianis, Giorgos Ikonomou, Kora Karvouni, Eleni Kokkidou, Filareti Komninou, Christianna Mantzourani, Themis Panou, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Gennadios Patsis, Dimitris Piatas, Sofia Seirli, Sotiris Tsakomidis, Maria Tsima, Laertes Vasileiou, Eugenia Zekeri
Preview: 13 February
First performance: 14 February
Information: Publicity and Communication Department
Tel. 210.5288164-5, promodept@n-t.gr
Photographs: Marilena Stafylidou
As part of the Common View programme of artistic events, a short video by Loukia Alavanou, The other, a fraud, will be screened shortly before each performance. The video is made up of a serious of shots, from Hollywood films and cartoons, of hands that never come into contact. Against a backdrop of theatre stages and sets, the hands play with the idea of the wrong marriage, betrayal and the illusion of the perfect family. In the 20th century, the cinema camera played a role previously performed by diaries and Alavanous work echoes "The diary of a scoundrel" in its investigation of desire, rivalry and lost love.
Latest updated: 01/04/2009
