Blitz Theatre Group I Greece


Surreal ball night amid Europe's ruins
After everything is over, three women and three men dance in the wreckage of a ballroom. They remember the great catastrophe that ravaged Europe. They remember the destruction of Paris, the battle of Zurich, the army that marched through Berlin, Ljubljana full of refugees, a burning Telekom high-rise and the walls of Amsterdam tagged with "Your former life is over you idiots!”. They think about former times, about an old flame, a farewell for ever, a specific rainy day, the best time of their lives, life under fire: "At the time we thought the war would never end. We were right." They forge fantastic plans for the future: Open an orphanage in the Alps! Learn how to navigate a submarine! Become a long-distance tightrope walker! Die happy! But most of the time they just dance. And try out a few numbers. After all, the show must go on...
With Late Night, the Greek theatre collective Blitz has succeeded in creating a fulminating yet poetic and ironic, amusing and moving theatre experience about the state of Europe. As if life were a sentimental novel in which one is stuck after the dramatic finale, they look back on a drama that may possibly well happen.

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Written and directed by Blitz Theatre Group Dramaturgy Blitz Theatre Group and Nikos Flessas With Christos Passalis, Angeliki Papoulia, Giorgos Valaïs, Maria Filini, Sophia Kokkali, Fidel Talaboukas Assistant Director Vassia Attarian Lighting Tasos Paleoroutas Music Blitz Theatre Group and Giorgos Konstantinidis Choreography Yannis Nikolaidis Set Efi Birba Costumes Vasilia Rozana Coordination Ligne Directe/Judith Martin Coproduction Onassis Cultural Centre, Blitz Theatre Group, La Filature – Scène Nationale de Mulhouse