Following on from the triumphant reception given to Dogtooth, Alps and The Lobster, the writer of the scripts that got foreign critics talking about a New Weird Greek Cinema has written his first play, exclusively for the distinguished VASISTAS company and the Onassis Cultural Center.

Argyro Chioti, an outstanding director of the younger generation, known for her vibrant theatricality and ability to conjure up an atmosphere on stage, stages Blood as a punk oratorio about our open wounds.

“Dimitris Kalafatis, aged 40 or so, accidentally rips open his throat in July 1989.” Like a modern-day Philoctetes, Efthymis Filippou’s hero can only watch on as his wound fails to heal, festers and leaves its bloody traces on his shirt, his pillow, and the bodies of his wife and children.

He writes to his dearest friend about it. BLOOD, the outstanding Greek scriptwriter’s first theatrical work, takes the form of the correspondence between two friends. Mirroring the epistolary masterpieces of Rousseau, Laclo and Goethe, and laced with the bizarre and the humorous, with politician’s paranoid speeches and the daydreams of ordinary folk, the work is transformed by Argyro Chiotis’ direction into a punk oratorio awash with surrealism and quick-witted comedy.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10, 11, 12 and 17, 18 και 19 October with English subtitles (translated to English by Memi Katsoni).

Location: ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE 107 Syngrou Avenue 117 45 Athens (Upper stage)

Ticket Prices: 18 €
Concs 10 € | Unemployed 5 €