at the Emporikon Theater
Start Date: Monday, October 5
Following the huge success of the play “A Certain Void,” Valeria Dimitriadou returns to the Emporikon Theater with her fourth play, “DEADLIFT. Lifting Death”. A contemporary and incisive political comedy that uses humor and sarcasm to reflect the cracks in a society where power, transactions, and invisible power plays shape the terms of everyday life. In a world where market rules and relentless competition dictate human relationships, the heroes are called upon to decide how far they are willing to go to defend what they believe in.
A troupe of exceptional actors, who perform the show’s music live, tells a story that constantly balances between the comic and the tragic, where the personal inevitably becomes political.
The Story
A new, modern gym, ZENITH, opens across the street from an old neighborhood gym, DEADLIFT, and this event serves as the starting point for two conflicting narratives.
For Odysseas, the owner of DEADLIFT, the opening of ZENITH marks the gradual unraveling of a world built on personal labor, care, and small scale.
For the newly elected mayor, Dimitris Zafeiropoulos, however, the fully equipped ZENITH gym embodies the vision of growth, openness, and modernization for a city that is claiming its future.
Between the two sides, there is not only a conflict of interests, but also a clash between two different ways of understanding the world.
The two men tell the same story from different social perspectives, confirming that every narrative is subjective and depends on the experience of the person telling it and the impact that experience had on their life.
Truth does not emerge as an objective fact but as a product of experience, self-interest, and desire. Both narratives, however, ultimately converge on the same inescapable event: the death of a man who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
With a satirical perspective, a fast pace, and constant twists, the play turns its gaze toward those who struggle to maintain their dignity in an environment that constantly changes the rules of the game. Truly, how resilient can our moral core remain when our very survival is constantly up for negotiation?
Where does personal responsibility end and the responsibility of an entire system begin? And when a human loss comes along to upset the balance, can it truly sway someone who has already chosen a side? Or once someone enters the game of power and interests, is it no longer possible to stop playing?
Play Dates & Times: Saturday at 6:00 p.m., Sunday at 9:00 p.m., Monday and Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.
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