I like to look inside other people's homes, even when the curtains are drawn. I see shadows coming and going.

The play by Loula Anagnostaki, The Encounter, was first presented in February 1967 at the National Theatre in Athens, directed by Leonidas Trivizas, and is published for the first time by Kappa Publishing.

"Each work has its own function that spontaneously finds ways to connect with the audience. I do not believe in the declared intention, but in the result. Because, ultimately, the goal will emerge from the result and not from the intention." Loula Anagnostaki (from the author's note in the program of the first performance, reprinted in this edition)