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There, a game of deception and revenge will unfold, forcing each of them to confront their own moral code, the things they wanted to do but didn\u2019t, and the words they spoke even though they didn\u2019t mean them. <\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cat and a canary that aren&#8217;t there (anymore), as if they were still at home.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sozos, Thalia, Fanis, and Ada.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four young, \u201cinsignificant\u201d yet essentially human beings, with a bleak and faded fate, search for their identity without burying their heads in the sand.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What brought them into this house? What connects them, and what pits them against each other? A person, a crime, despair perhaps\u2014or maybe a wound that just won\u2019t heal?  <\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talcum powder, starch, baking soda for gargling. Hypnotics, Depon, amphetamines. Ponstan and paracetamol. Colorful pills, capsules, and Dramamine. Skulls and crescent moons\u2014goodbye, world, or hello, joy? Everything\u2019s at stake in this nocturnal game of truth and illusions.     <\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A modern-day story of love and hate set in a neighborhood in central Athens, featuring heroic ghosts of people searching for the truth to escape their darkness.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The play \u201cDon\u2019t Dig in the Sand\u201d is strictly for audiences 18 and older.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Authors&#8217; Note<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cDon\u2019t Dig in the Sand*\u201d is a \u201cchamber\u201d piece for four instruments.<\/em><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A polyphonic work without an orchestra, guided by four protagonists who take turns directing the voices of the others amid utter chaos.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The four figures, trapped in the corridors of a reality they themselves have carved out, seek a way out, asserting their place in the twilight world that contains them and that reflects, with realistic precision, the fleeting illusion of truth<\/em>.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A co-production of ATHENS THEATERS and the PIRAEUS MUNICIPAL THEATER.<\/strong><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>%%GALLERY%%<\/em><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>%%VIDEO%%  <\/em><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"has-bd-color-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Performance Dates &amp; Times<\/strong>: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: 8:30 p.m.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"has-bd-color-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Group Reservations Department: 2111026277 &amp; 210 2117240 ext. 305 ( <\/strong>weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) \u2013 email: reservations@a-th.gr<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>&#13;\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; at the Piraeus Municipal Theater &#13; &#13; The Piraeus Municipal Theater, in collaboration with the Athenian Theaters, presents the award-winning play by Antonis and Konstantinos Koufalas,\u201cDon\u2019t Dig in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","cpt_portfolio_group":[449,455],"class_list":["post-45011","cpt_portfolio","type-cpt_portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cpt_portfolio_group-2024-2025","cpt_portfolio_group-piraeus-municipal-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45027,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio\/45011\/revisions\/45027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cpt_portfolio_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_portfolio_group?post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}