{"id":46212,"date":"2026-05-26T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/athina-maximou-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:15:11","slug":"athina-maximou-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/athina-maximou-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Athina Maximou on \u201cHigh Heels in the Swamp\u201d | Lambeti Summer Theater &#8211; Taratsa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46212\" class=\"elementor elementor-46212 elementor-44571\">\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\">, actress Athina Maximou 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 Manolis Dounias and Aimilios Cheilakis.<\/span><span lang=\"EL\"> As part of a tour running concurrently with the Lambeti Taratsa, the production will visit major cities throughout Greece.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\">He began the discussion by mentioning the beautiful rooftop terrace of the Lambeti Theater, describing it as a wonderful escape in summertime Athens. She described the play as \u201ccheerful, colorful, and full of surprises, while also making the audience think.\u201d She expressed her enthusiasm both for the cast of the production and for the decision she and Aimilios made to perform in Athens during the summer rather than go on a major tour, as they had done in previous years. She spoke about her role, saying that she plays the wife of the Minister of the Environment, a lighthearted woman who is the one who provokes the opposition\u2019s blackmail against her husband, the minister.   <\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\"> <\/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 to light (but there\u2019s no water to wash it), and the public life of a country that, in other   <b> <\/b>is at risk of other things as well<b> <\/b>It&#8217;s burning. And all this while everyone is waiting for the Prime Minister to arrive at the reception any moment now. <\/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 class=\"has-drop-cap\"> <\/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 , actress Athina Maximou discusses the play \u201cHigh Heels in the Marsh\u201d by Akis Dimou, which opens on June 2 at the Lambeti&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[565,561,499],"class_list":["post-46212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidcasts","tag-athens-maximou","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\/46212","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=46212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46214,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions\/46214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}