{"id":46278,"date":"2026-06-30T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/?p=46278"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:10:33","slug":"danae-pappa-talks-about-the-play-he-who-saves-himself-is-saved-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/danae-pappa-talks-about-the-play-he-who-saves-himself-is-saved-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Set designer Anna Biza talks about the play \u201cHe Who Saves Himself Is Saved\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46278\" class=\"elementor elementor-46278 elementor-46277\">\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\">Stages Network \u2013 Athenian Theaters present Eduardo de Filippo\u2019s comedy \u201cHe Who Saves Himself Is Saved,\u201d directed by Tamilla Koulieva and featuring a large cast of leading actors. It is a tender situational comedy brimming with spirit that highlights the warmth and humor of traveling theater troupes\u2014that is, the famous \u201cboukoukia\u201d\u2014who form the roots of modern theater. The show\u2019s set designer, Anna Biza, speaks to the Stages Network camera and to Nikos Thrasyvoulos. She mentions the difficulties inherent in building a set that will, in fact, be on tour. She explains the instructions she received from director Tamilla Koulieva and ultimately presents a set that references both the past and the present.The choice of scaffolding\u2014which essentially serves as the set\u2014came naturally to her as soon as she heard the director\u2019s instructions. She also explains her final decision to present this set and outlines the purposes it serves. She reveals secrets of her work\u2014which is so important for a production\u2014and, among other things, mentions that she studied all the venues the production would visit using satellite photos, in order to assess the functionality of her set design. Concluding the discussion, she emphasizes how easily the set can be transported and, at the same time, explains how its final form is determined, always in collaboration with the set builder.<\/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>Stages Network \u2013 Athenian Theaters present Eduardo de Filippo\u2019s comedy \u201cHe Who Saves Himself Is Saved,\u201d directed by Tamilla Koulieva and featuring a large cast of leading actors. It is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[582,578,499],"class_list":["post-46278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidcasts","tag-anna-biza","tag-he-who-saves-himself-is-saved","tag-vidcast","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46278","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=46278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46296,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46278\/revisions\/46296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a-th.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}