- stage: MKC, Frosina hall
Athens & Epidauros Festival (GR)
Director: Anestis Azas
Duration: 100’
Language: Greek with Macedonian subtitle
Author: Gerasimos Bekas and the team
Cast: Katerina Mavrogeorgi, Cem Yigit Uzumoglu, George Katsis, Gary Salomon
Conceived and directed by: Anestis Azas
Dramaturgy – Assistant to the director: Michalis Pitidis
Set design: Eleni Stroulia
Costume design: Vassilia Rozana
Lighting design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Sound design – Music: Panagiotis Manouilidis
Video editing: Dimitris Zachos
Video’s Director of Photography: Michalis Gkatzogias
Choreography: Zoe Chatziantoniou
Production manager: Kostis Panagiotopoulos
„Republic of baklava” is a theatrical pseudo-documentary inspired by the historical events of the 1821 Greek war of independence, but set in our modern, digitally-connected, world. Its theme is two young people’s attempt to free themselves from the weight of age-old stereotypes of hostility and invent a new identity for themselves. A group of “researchers” are invited on stage to reconstruct the history of the tiny nation, its birth, conflicts and heritage. Based on a series of fictional, surreal and comic situations, the show explores issues of identity and political organisation through the filter of the present day.
SURREAL COMEDY, WHICH IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND FICTION. FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF ITS COLLAPSE, THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BAKLAVA HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH. TODAY, IT’S AN ELDORADO FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY FANATICS AS A LARGE AMOUNT IS STILL BURIED IN ITS ASHES.