Aris Biniaris makes his first appearance in ancient comedy and shortly before his return to Epidaurus (after Perseus and Prometheus Bound) he comes to Patras on Thursday 12 September at the Summer Municipal Theater with Aristophanes’ The Birds.
Although the plot in this high comedy is fictional, the theme is real and necessary: ”Chickens” presents a new beginning outside of human society, away from satiety, decay and corruption.
Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos and Giorgos Chrysostomou as Pisthetairos and Evelpides, with a number of excellent actors: Michalis Valasoglou, Stelios Iakovides, Thanasis Isidorou, Tasos Korkos, Kostas Koronaios, Sofia Koonaios, Augustine Koulerias, Augustun Marilos Kouler, os Panagiotu , Kyriakos Salis, Alexia Sapranidou, Konstantina Takalou, Irini Tsellou will try to build their ideal state on the airwaves far from people.
Case
Two friends, Peistthetairos and Evelpides, disillusioned with the conditions of life in their city, are looking for a new place where they can live in peace and joy. Their contact with the bird world will give them the idea of establishing a new state in the ethers, between earth and sky.
As the city continues to be built, uninvited guests from the human world arrive claiming arbitrary powers and privileges, while emissaries of the Olympian gods protest in fear that divine sovereignty is being questioned as the new city is blocked by a fog of sacrifices. from reaching the sky
Will Peistthetairos and Evelpides be able to complete the building of Nefelokokygia with the help of birds? How easy will it be to realize their own utopias?
Aris Biniaris’s direction uses the element of ritual to illuminate the allegorical extensions of Aristophanes’ work, while the music and movement place the human condition, transformation and the restoration of earthly justice at the heart of the play.
As human civilization reaches its climax, the flight of birds is like a rite of initiation and reconnection of man to the natural world and the unprecedented power that comes from that relationship.