CYPRUS / 2020
Antonis Georgiou - In Critical Condition
The play was proposed by Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) for the ETC Drama Committee
Written in the contemporary Cypriot dialect, Antonis Georgiou’s play is a sequence of twentytwo monologues and twelve multi-character scenes, unfolding outside a hospital intensive care unit. Five characters are going through emotions of expectation and an underlying absence, as two of their loved ones are confined in the ICU beds in critical condition. One of them is Paris’s mother, Zoe, while Chrystalla and her two sons (Christos and Andreas) and Elena, are worried about Marios, their son, brother, and partner. The space of the hospital gradually transforms into a rink on which an endless battle takes place, a space where suspended sorrow reveals the characters’ exposure to the fragility of existence. Each one of them fights their own struggle, experiencing unexpected circumstances and manifesting behaviours revealing their own vulnerability. Five micro-stories within a familiar, everyday environment; with death as the epicentre.
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Marius Ivaškevičius – Kant
This text excerpt was proposed by the State Small Theatre of Vilnius to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
1783. November. Europe is shrouded in a haze of ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland. But it's clear in Königsberg. As he does every day, at one o'clock in the afternoon, 60-year-old Immanuel Kant sits down to lunch in the living room of his house with a group of old friends. It is here that the fate of mankind is being decided.
DOCUMENT AVAILABLE TO ETC MEMBERS ONLYCYPRUS / 2019
Giorgis Tsouris – 170 square meters (Moonwalk)
This text excerpt was proposed by Cyprus Theatre Organisation to the ETC Drama Committee in 2024.
170 square meters (Moonwalk) takes place in the living room of a 170-square-metre house in the Greek province of Thebes. Two sisters, Alexandra and Lily meet after years on the occasion of their father’s recent death to sort matters concerning their family house and their shares. The house turns into a battlefield, where all its people move aggressively; what is taken for granted, is now upturned. Well-kept secrets come to light and are exposed.
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BULGARIA / 2014
Elena Alexieva – Phantom Pain
The play was proposed by Theatre and Music Centre Kardjali / Bulgaria for the ETC Drama Committee
The Armless Woman has lost both her arms in an accident. After the amputation, she lives in her modest apartment struggling to manage with her new, hopeless life. She is tended by Maria and Maria’s son, the Boy. In an attempt to kill time, the Armless Woman starts to paint with her mouth.
A stranger to art, she is aware that her paintings are weird and poor. However, her case is taken up by a TV journalist, who promotes the Woman and her art, and gradually, the Armless Woman becomes a celebrity artist. The popularity of her works grows. She is even labelled an intellectual. And yet, she cannot sleep at night due to the phantom pain which she tries to fight through painting.
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