{"id":46203,"date":"2026-05-26T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/emilios-cheilakis-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:15:11","slug":"emilios-cheilakis-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/emilios-cheilakis-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilios Cheilakis on \u201cHigh Heels in the Swamp\u201d | Lambeti Summer Theater \u2013 Taratsa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46203\" class=\"elementor elementor-46203 elementor-44558\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dcbcb8c e-flex e-con-boxed sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5dcbcb8c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1615dd6f sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1615dd6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><span lang=\"EL\">As part of <\/span><span lang=\"EL\"> Stages Network\u2019s <\/span><span lang=\"EL\">Theatre <\/span>Talks<span lang=\"EL\">series <\/span><span lang=\"EL\">, actor and director Aimilios Cheilakis discusses the play \u201cHigh Heels in the Marsh\u201d by Akis Dimou, which opens on June 2 at the Lambeti Summer Theater\u2014Taratsa, directed by Cheilakis in collaboration with Manolis Dounias.<\/span><span lang=\"EL\"> As part of a tour running concurrently with the Lambeti Terrace, the production will visit major cities throughout Greece.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\">He began by speaking about the respect and hard work of the show\u2019s cast and crew in Akis Dimou\u2019s remarkable play. He explained why both he and Athina Maximou chose to stay in Athens this year, in contrast to the extensive tours of previous years. At the same time, he expresses his joy that a childhood dream of his\u2014to perform on a rooftop terrace on the outskirts of Pedion tou Areos\u2014will come true. As for the play, he noted that it borders on satire because it addresses politics and the ills of political life among politicians. He spoke at length about his own role, as well as the other characters in the play. Regarding the tour schedule for the production in carefully selected cities, he said, \u201cI am in favor of touring theater,\u201d and explained his reasons.     <\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\">A minister, his wife, and a leading figure in the Official Opposition. An eccentric, ambitious writer and a rising, equally ambitious journalist. A passionate (so they say) love affair that some cannot forget and others do not want to remember. A wedding anniversary that turns into a farce, a pile of dirty laundry that comes out into the open (but there\u2019s no water to wash it), and the public life of a country that, for other<\/span><b><span lang=\"EL\"> <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EL\">is in danger and<\/span><b><span lang=\"EL\"> <\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EL\">is burning . And all this while everyone is waiting, moment by moment, for the Prime Minister\u2019s arrival at the reception.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\"> <\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EL\">A colorful pop comedy<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EL\"> about the gray areas of politics (and beyond).<\/span><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Stages Network\u2019s Theatre Talksseries , actor and director Aimilios Cheilakis discusses the play \u201cHigh Heels in the Marsh\u201d by Akis Dimou, which opens on June 2 at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[562,561,499],"class_list":["post-46203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidcasts","tag-emilios-cheilakis","tag-heels-in-the-marsh","tag-vidcast","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=46203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46207,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46203\/revisions\/46207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}