“THE CARYATID!” is a delightful, relentless comedy by Giorgos Kapoutzidis that thrilled audiences with its vitriolic humor, roaring laughter, and sweeping gaze at Greek reality.
What happens when the lost sixth Caryatid finally returns to her homeland? The country puts on its Sunday best. The cameras are set up. The speeches are prepared. The statements are rewritten. The mechanisms work overtime. The tensions rise. And somewhere in there, national emotion meets political paranoia, the official line clashes with the hidden backstage, and Greece does what it knows how to do best: turn grandeur into a fiasco, and a fiasco into hilarious entertainment. Inspired by an exceptional theatrical concept, “THE CARYATID!” becomes a bitter comedy, a satire of national self-awareness, a farcical portrait of a country that can be deeply moved, spectacularly divided, and self-undermining with enviable consistency — often all at the same time.
Text: Giorgos Kapoutzidis Direction: Katerina Mavrogeorgi Dramaturgy Advisor-Artistic Collaborator: Antonis Antonopoulos Set Design: Artemis Flessa Costume Design: Ifigeneia Ntaountaki Music: Larry Gus Movement Direction: Sofia Paschou Lighting Design: Vasia Attarian Video Design: Tasos Goletsos Production Dramaturg: Vivi Spathoula Assistant Director: Sofia Stathatou Assistant Set Designer: Aggeliki Vasilopoulou-Kampitsi Assistant Lighting Designer: Serafeim Radis Assistant Costume Designer: Alexandra – Anastasia Ftouli Second Assistant Director: Korina Vezyrgianni Hair Design: Konstantinos Koliousis Make-up Design: Olga Faleichyk Photography: Elina Giounanli
Cast (in alphabetical order): Asimina Anastasopoulou, Stelios Iakovidis, Stelios Xanthoudakis, Agoritsa Oikonomou, Drosos Skotis, Stamatis Fakorelis, Maria Filini
