{"id":46230,"date":"2026-05-26T14:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/manolis-dounias-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:15:20","slug":"manolis-dounias-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/manolis-dounias-on-high-heels-in-the-swamp-lambeti-summer-theater-taratsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Manolis Dounias 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=\"46230\" class=\"elementor elementor-46230 elementor-44548\">\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 Stages Network\u2019s Theatre Talks series, director Manolis Dounias 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 Dounias in collaboration with Emilios Cheilakis.<\/span>As part of a tour running concurrently with the Lambeti Taratsa, the production will visit major cities throughout Greece.<\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"EL\">The director analyzes how he directs this highly topical play by Akis Dimou and, at the same time, expresses his joy and surprise at being able to tackle a play, a political pop comedy that has never been staged before. He emphasized that he wants to convey an Almod\u00f3var-esque mood to the audience, both in the play and in the set design. Joking, he noted that Lambeti\u2019s Taratsa calls for a touch of madness, and that is precisely how he and his collaborators are approaching this production. He also said that this political comedy addresses social ills in a lighthearted way, without taking sides. It touches on everyone\u2014after all, it\u2019s a play about what we\u2019re all going through. He also emphasized that comedy is an easier genre, especially when it comes to rehearsals, since the dialogue lifts everyone\u2019s spirits. However, as he aptly put it, comedy is actually a more difficult and demanding genre for actors.      <\/span><\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><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><\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EL\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p><p class=\"v1MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><span lang=\"EL\">A colorful pop comedy<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EL\"> about the gray areas of politics (and beyond).<\/span><\/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 Talks series, director Manolis Dounias 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":46231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[561,572,499],"class_list":["post-46230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidcasts","tag-heels-in-the-marsh","tag-manolis-dounias","tag-vidcast","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230","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=46230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46232,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46230\/revisions\/46232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}