at the Mikro Horn Theater
For the third consecutive year , the award-winning play by Yannis Tsiros , “ Axyrista” ” Chins “, is presented at the Mikro Horn Theater , directed by Giorgos Paloumpis !
Stathis Stamoulakatos plays the role of Savvas, and in the roles of Kyriakos, Marinakis, and Irina, we see Ilias Valasis, Spyros Asimenios, and Antonia Pitoulidou, respectively.
For the project:
This important play, 15 years after its first staging* and more than 20 years after it was first written, proves to be more contemporary and more relevant than ever. Human exploitation, the plight of immigrants, sexist treatment of women, economic inequality, and power dynamics—the issues addressed by the play—have likely intensified in our time rather than subsided. “Unshaven Chins” returns after more than ten years, during which our country has undergone decisive changes, to provoke thought and stir the emotions, as if it were speaking directly to the here and now.
“Unshaven Chins” is a realistic social drama with existential and poetic undertones. Through humor and intense suspense, we follow “real” and familiar to us, with all their weaknesses, guilt, charm, absurdity, tenderness, and cruelty.
Their secrets are gradually revealed, and with them, the story’s plot unravels piece by piece until the gripping finale.
These are trapped men who lay themselves bare emotionally before the object of their desire; they become both the perpetrators of a woman’s suffering and victims of their own masculinity. Unable to control their passion, they come face to face with their hidden, terrifying selves.
Director Giorgos Paloumbis is once again collaborating with playwright Yannis Tsiros (“Invisible Olga,” National Theater, 2011), and drawing on his experience staging contemporary realistic Greek plays, he creates a powerful production of this particular story.
Case:
Three men, hospital employees, work every day in their department in the basement wing. From the upper floors, they receive, sort, care for, and temporarily store the bodies of those who did not survive. They follow a routine of standard procedures. Tonight, however, a woman “arrives” to shake up their lifeless reality. Secrets, revelations, and conflicts will bring to light their weaknesses and base instincts. Crime, revenge, and guilt follow, and by morning, nothing will be the same.
