MAKIS

at the Apothiki Theater

*Final Performance: Sunday, April 13, 2025

Vasilis Katsikonouris’s famous ” Makis ” is back for a second year!

Joining him, of course, is the theater’s iconic performer, Errikos Litsis, who will take the stage at the Apothiki Theater starting October 7 and will talk to us about the things that used to happen and no longer do—but then again… you never know…

Every Monday and Tuesday.

The story:

Grandpa is at home. His children have gone on vacation. Santorini, Paros, Mykonos…. He used to go to Makronissos and Gyaros…

Now he’s all alone in Athens in the middle of this heat wave! With his obsessions, his frustration, and his fear.

He feels no nostalgia for the past, nor does he mourn—he merely longs for: Just a little while longer.

Even if everyone and everything around him has him all figured out…

But that distant, inexhaustible longing for life remains, and it won’t let him give up.

And when he does, he’ll make as much of a fuss as possible.

In this journey of his—inside a room—the “unruly” grandfather speaks to the silent, golden inhabitant of a glass jar.

The words, with their subtle power and irony, shatter the silence of the summer scene.

A lonely tango. A man who is both young and old at the same time, standing at the edge of one of life’s steps, hesitates and tests his strength.

Across from him, the silent goldfish bears witness to an existential monologue about a deeper struggle: The grandfather makes a last-ditch effort to ward off the relentless march of existence.

Deeply self-deprecating and impulsive, an elderly man takes a look back at the suitcase of his life, unwilling—but also no longer able—to change anything.

In the empty house, all alone, he mocks everyone and everything—and above all, himself. A character marked by both the tragic and the comic, which constantly alternate until their final, tender union…