During the Black Seven-Year Period, politics, forbidden by the dictatorship for the people, sought and found alternative ways to express itself. Thus, a particular system of symbols was born, a special cryptic language that each time meant not only what was said but something else as well.
This other meaning remained essentially the same and unchanged, amidst their alternating concealments: Freedom as faith, as hope, as a call to struggle. Thus, we welcomed 'Our Great Circus' - moments from our past, mobilized to help us in a difficult moment of the present.
In the text, it was Greece that called us to not bend in the harsh ordeal, no matter how unbearable it became over the years. And the actors, Kazakos with the granite-like passion of unyielding endurance, Karezi with the blazing passion of outburst, did not only serve the art - they served a people.
The people were present, participating in the performance with the sense that they were fulfilling a duty, like in a demonstration, like in a mobilization. The performances were mass political events, the largest of the Seven-Year Period. Before the Polytechnic...
Manufacturer
- Author
- Iakovos Kampanellis
- Publisher
- Kedros
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Release Date
- 6/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 14x20 cm
- Art Movement
- Modernism
- Art Albums
- Yes
- Subjects
- Photography - Video, Theatre
- ISBN-13
- 9789600424133
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