“As long as Dimitris exists, there will be others as well,” the great theatre master Karolos Koun used to say about Kehagias... This year, 20 years after the death of Dimitris Kehagias, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Kalamata (D.I.PE.THE. Kalamata) honors his memory with the play “Laurels and Oleanders”. Laurels for the timelessness of its delightful political satire of our social morals, and Oleanders, because this work—written in 1979—feels as if it were written yesterday, today, and I fear even tomorrow.

The poetic quality of Kehagias and the sarcasm of Chaviara—“three tape recorders and a typewriter”—four years of writing and many more years of their shared life, gave us “an almost theatrical masterpiece,” as critics of the time noted.

Four party officials, on the eve of elections, scheme, bluff, and weave conspiracy theories on the green felt of our public life “for an empty shirt,” for a chair..... Manos Karatzogiannis

 

Direction Manos Karatzogiannis

Set Design Natalia Astypaliti

Costumes Vasiliki Syrma

 

Thanasis Vlavianos, Giorgos Ziovas, Filippos Sofianos, Giannis Tsourounakis

 

Start time 21:30

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