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Directed by Froso Lytra. <\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A monologue\u2014an ironic commentary on the stifling clich\u00e9s of our lives, the unbearable conventions that undermine our freedom, the oppressive \u201cmusts,\u201d and the outdated \u201csupposedly\u201d! Laughter\u2014both hearty and bitter\u2014from an unexpected and extraordinary woman, just like the one next door. <\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three women collaborate to present, in 90 minutes, their own contemporary version <strong>of M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A.<\/strong>\u2014the one set in 2025!<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE STORY:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 37-year-old woman takes us on a journey\u2014across the turbulent archipelago of Athens\u2014toward her own Ithaca, with one and only lifeboat: her biting and ironic sense of humor!<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She opens the door to her bathroom to the public and shares with them an incredible experience of empathy and escape from the relentless grind of everyday life.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On her white clothesline, she hangs out the dirty laundry of the human race, pins it up with clothespins, and waits for it to dry so we can all gather it up together.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she confides to us: <em>\u201c\u2026My coffee commits suicide every day on the burner. It swells and bubbles up like a rash inside my coffee pot, and each of its blisters bursts like a dream. And I\u2019m afraid it might spill and I won\u2019t have time to take it off the heat. So I cut my dreams short to make it in time. So they won\u2019t spill. 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