As part of Stages Network’s Theatre Talks series, actor Christos Hatzipanagiotis discusses the play ““Dads with Rum” by Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou,” which is running forits fourth season starting in October at the Aliki Theater, directed by Stamatis Fasoulis.
The actor expresses his satisfaction that every night after the show, the audience waits for the actors to thank them for the two hours of laughter and carefree fun they’ve just enjoyed, and he emphasizes that this is what matters most to the actors.
He also points out that “The Dads” is Reppa and Papathanassiou’s best work. A play that, as he says, “depicts the quintessential Greek family, which is capable of resorting to extreme measures for money.”
It is a biting satire, first performed in 1996, that ridicules Greek society. A society that, even today, unfortunately continues to be larger than life, “smaller” in its behavior, greedy, racist, and offensive in all its manifestations.
