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With: Mit Nikos Alexiou, Ilias Algaer, Rena Andreadaki, Melina Apostolidou, Michail Chatiris, Anastasia Eden, Adrian Frieling, Smaro Gaitanidou, Roza Kaloudi, Soo-Jin Kim, Ilan Manouach, Yannis Ntalianis, Alexandra Pavlidou, Theodora Tzimou, George Ziovas, Petros Alatzas, Mariska Arvanitidi, Lambros Filippou, Rena Fourtouni, Margarita Kalkou, Virginia Katsouna, Tilemachos Mousas, Vasilis Spyropoulos, Aris Tsaousis, George Vrondos

With the participation of the author Mr. Dimitris Dimitriadis in the part of Beba Blans Maria

Participants from Athens and Vienna: Maria Avramidou, Nikoleta Dafnou, Katerina Delegou, Afroditi Evangelatou, Evely Frederick Donald, Maria Fakinou, Yannis Gardelis, Maria Esther Andre Gonzales, Vasiliki Kamaratou, Maria Karoglou, Hara Karamani, Konstantina Kyriakou, Pavlos Laoutaris,
Olympia Paspalaki, Areti Pragia, Androniki Prodromidou, Ismini Proiou, Anna Tsapara, Melina Zacharopoulou, Helga Bauer, Bili Baumgartner, Hermine Bernard, Lilo Besold, Verena Blaas, Ourania Chouridou, Judith Christian, Andreas Dampfhart, Maria Domes, Fiona Ebner, Happy Egbule, Barbara Eger, Liesbeth Engelbrecht, Nicole Ertl, Christine Flamond, Rigel Flamond, Helgard Forsthuber, Klaus Gaffron, Anna Gajdzik, Anna Gromova, Christopher Hambrusch, Pauline Hammer, Mi-Zu Han, Alana Hancock, Johannes Hanel, Nora-Anna Hofmann, Stefanie Janka, Barbara Juch, Sylvia Kadrnoska-Litschauer, Peter Kamykowski, Yulia Karpovich, Ahmad Kharma, Anna Knapp, Nicole Kodicek, Erich Koller, Branka Kozomara, Renata Lakatus, Gerald Lamprecht, Ernestine Lederer, Kathrin Lewandowsky, Leonore Lewisch, Valentin Lewisch, Charlotte Lewisch, Elene Machariaschwili, Theresa Martini, Daniel Mathiaschitz, Josef Matzinger, Lisbeth Meinharter, Emilija Milunovic, Helga Morasek, Daniela Moser, Leila Müller, Johann Musial, Aurora Orso, Sophie Portolano, Renate Posch, Corinna Prey, Annika Prey, Karl Raunig, Christian Rebler, Christa Rentenberger, Flora Resl, Jesus Rivero, Michaela Schausberger, Anneliese Scheibein, Gerda Schlatzmüller, Ernst Schrammel, Lisa Sejdija, Senka Sokolovic, Binu Starnegg, Lisa Stern, Naghmeh Taghizadeh, Serge Tako, Karin Verdorfer, Friederike Vogler, Natalia Walla-Karpovich, Heidrun Wanzenböck, Julian Weizenhöfer, Ernestine Weyen, Heinrich Worsch, Anton Zabsky, Christine Zabsky, Elisabeth Zak, Lisa Zalud, Gertrude Zimmer, Agnes Zottl

In his text Dying Like A Country, which was published in Athens in 1978, Dimitris Dimitriadis described the inner life of a collective, a sort of inner biography of his country. He portrayed a country annihilating itself in a hopeless war and state of siege, a country whose women have stopped bearing children, that says goodbye to what it was before. As a country of the past, it is partly stuck in the era of the Second World War, of occupation, civil war and the post-war period, and partly in a future where all shreds of its identity have been lost. As the country of a biography, it is located inside its inhabitants.

The text is a diagnosis of the Greek present, the analysis of a broken identity. In the perception of its inhabitants, the country has ceased to exist, destroying their existence in the process. “The name of the country has changed. The new country resembles the old one in nothing at all”, a protagonist remarks. But the language is indestructible, a complex language that has survived all occupations and attempts at colonialisation.

Athens-based director Michael Marmarinos has created a queue composed of 120 persons from Athens including 12 performers. This line of people will carry the text through the audience and across the stage: “A static procession of humans that has sprung from the oldest texts of the Old Testament and continues, endlessly, to the present and far into the future.”

Discussion with the audience:
Free admission, 14 June, following the performance, Hall E at MuseumsQuartier

Breakfast Talks for the Audience, Colleagues and Press
6 May to 10 June
Every Tuesday and Saturday (including public holidays)
11 am – approx. 12.30 am
Café Prückel, Stubenring 24, Vienna 1
Free admission
With: Performing Arts Director Stefanie Carp