Theatrical performance “Body Medea” at the Volax Theater

Performance: Body Medea
based on the work of Z. D. Ainalis

Artistic Supervision, Adaptation: Savvas Stroumbos

Performance: Natalia Georgosopoulou, Antonis Iordanou

Open Theater of Volax, Tinos

Sunday, August 10 at 21:00

Presale offer €12
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with the support of the Cultural Association of Volax

The artistic group Alas is pleased to announce the presentation of the performance “Body Medea” in the beautiful island of Tinos, and specifically at the atmospheric open-air theater Volax for one night only on Sunday, August 10 at 21:00.

The performance is carried out with the support of the Cultural Association of Volax.

Group Alas’ theatrical work, based on the piece “DCX 212 Medea: Construction Site” by Z. D. Ainalis and written specifically for this performance, was presented during the 2024–2025 winter artistic season in Athens, receiving warm reviews from critics and prolonged applause from the audience.

It is worth mentioning that the group’s previous work “War Does Not Have a Woman’s Face” by Nobel laureate author Svetlana Alexievich was also presented with great success, for two years, within and outside Greece.

Note

Body Medea or wound Medea, an acoustic dome of desires and anguish.
Can life emerge from anywhere other than the one visible or invisible wound each person holds within them?
And how is it revealed — at what time, in what space, and with which recipient?
Which path revives anything destined to fade into oblivion?
Medea and Jason remained undeniably, indivisibly together. Their shared Body is Hades and their voices are their souls playing theater in Hades. A confrontation of the human who lives between the mythical image and the real image.
A game of two ghosts or two survivors experiencing the most human tragedy, that of ruin, of desolation, of shadow.

Natalia Georgosopoulou

Z. D. Ainalis – Short Biography:

Z. D. Ainalis was born in 1982 in Athens. He has published the poetry collections Electrography (Gavriilidis Editions, Athens, 2006; 2nd edition, Thraka, Athens, 2018), The Silence of Siva (Vakxikon.gr Editions, Athens, 2011; 2016), The Tales of the Desert (Kedros, 2017), The Monody of the Desert (Kedros, 2019), and Something a Bit Slower (Ypokeimeno, 2021); the collection of poetic narratives Fragments (Gavriilidis Editions, Athens, 2008), as well as the poetic novels Michalis Tatsis – With the Plank in His Hands (Panopticon Editions, Thessaloniki, 2011) and Mythology (Panopticon Editions, Thessaloniki, 2013).
His poems have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Finnish.
He is a member of the Editorial Team of the literary magazine North-Northeast. He lives and works in Mytilene.

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Contributors:

Author: Z. D. Ainalis

Artistic Supervision, Adaptation: Savvas Stroumbos

Co-creation / Performance: Natalia Georgosopoulou, Antonis Iordanou

Original music composition, on-stage musician: Yiannis Ismyrnioglou

Stage installation / costumes: Katerina Sotiriou

Set / costume designer assistant: Marilena Moschou

Scenery construction: Telis Sofianopoulos

Costume making: Parthenia Tsekoura

Photographs: Ariadni Fytopoulou

Video / trailer: Stefanos Kosmidis / ORKI

Makeup: Virginia Tsichlaki

Poster artwork: Katerina Sotiriou
Poster design: Georgia Sideri, Yiannis Vergitsis

Production Organization: Artistic Group Alas

Performance duration: 60 minutes

The work “DCX 212 Medea: Construction Site” by Z. D. Ainalis is published by “Panopticon” Editions

They wrote about the performance:

“The performance Body Medea is a brilliant example of physical theater, a ritual that draws the viewer to co-experience along with Medea and Jason and to become part of this body which on stage does not seek answers, but the primary question.

In the role of Medea, Natalia Georgosopoulou impresses with the feverish use of her body which becomes a palette of tensions and outbursts. Beside her, Antonis Iordanou portrays Jason, quickly erasing any tendency for male dominance, abandoning the authority of the man and king, becoming the mirror in which the image of Medea will appear. On stage, musician Yiannis Ismyrnioglou defines the silences and expresses the psychological fractures of the heroes with sounds resembling breaths, with measured musical outbursts that highlight the dialogue and the tensions.”
[Maro Triantafyllou, Antilogos Magazine]

“The performance of the roles is, in a word, shocking. Natalia Georgosopoulou descends to the depths of her bodily being, becoming ‘an acoustic dome of desires and anguish’, presenting the heroine as a fully sculpted embodiment of the fearsome goddess Hecate. Antonis Iordanou sheds all pretenses of male power and will, standing bare before the image of the woman he has fatally wounded. And of course, the captivating music, with the ‘constructed’, material sounds of Yiannis Ismyrnioglou, with the musician himself on stage, accompanying and sustaining the whole.”
[Leandros Polenakis, Avgi Newspaper]

“Savvas Stroumbos, key collaborator of Theodoros Terzopoulos, continues his deep research path in theater, creating an environment where body and sound become dominant narrative tools. The actors’ movement acquires almost choreographic power, with repetitions enhancing the sense of entrapment and metaphysical struggle.

The work does not focus so much on the traditional version of Medea’s story but dissects her relationship with Jason as a single, fragmented ‘body’, a battlefield between memory, oblivion, and destruction. Through a game of shadows and survivors, the performance touches on the essence of human desolation, where love and hate are inextricably linked.”
[Alexia Vlara, openmind.gr]

  

Info

Location: Open Theater of Volax, Tinos

Date: Sunday, August 10. Start time: 21:00

Performance duration: 60 minutes

Information / Seat reservations: 6947656041 and at the Soaping Art store (Volax, Tinos)

Ticket prices: €15 (regular) & €12 (discounted: unemployed, under 18, over 65, disabled and companion of disabled persons, student, group of more than 7 people)
Presale offer: €12

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