{"id":1838,"date":"2026-06-08T06:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/?post_type=programa&p=1838"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:18:05","slug":"the-house","status":"publish","type":"programa","link":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/programa\/the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The House"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe tiles always looked ready to burst, as if behind the walls were the hands and lips and feet of those who lived there previously, but they never did so; they remained there as a diary of which year we did what we did and the lives of those people.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The House is a performance-parable about violence, addiction to images and the abolition of illusions or, in other words, about a reality that, no matter how much you try to avoid it, will catch up to you sooner or later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our house. Our little corner of the world. Our definitive retreat. Where we are safe. Or perhaps not? An original work\u2014elliptical and revolving mainly around action in silence\u2014comprises the textual material of the parable forged by Dimitris Karantzas and his team, featuring scarce dialogue, relentless tension, and two actors\u2014Alexia Kaltsiki and Fidel Talampoukas\u2014carrying out the daily housekeeping ritual at their home until the world\u2019s violence breaks in and uproots all.<\/span><\/p>\n

In “The House”, two figures, a woman and a man (Siblings? Flatmates? Partners?) spend a typical day in their home, which may be in Athens, Tokyo, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, or Vilnius. In any metropolis where people live in cell-houses, bereft of identity and where everything looks alike. The two figures perform their chores, arrange the shopping, pay the bills, fold the clothes, and tidy up the space and their structure. The art of doing nothing substantial is elevated to a poetic parable, with the daily routine seizing the hinges of the heroes\u2019 thoughts and conquering the stage. Both of them entrench themselves to avoid confronting reality and soothe the nooses that the outside world has in store for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, a window feeds and is fed by them. A window of the house faces a quiet street in which, from time to time, passers-by stroll. As their day moves on, the window transforms into a funnel, a hellish kaleidoscope, in which various manifestations of our era\u2019s violence parade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dimitris Karantzas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dimitris Karantzas was born in Athens in 1987. He studied at Embros Higher Drama School and at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the University of Athens. He has worked with the National Theatre, Onassis Stegi, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, Theatro tou Notou at the Amore Theater, the Karolos Koun Greek Art Theater, Odos Kykladon Theater, etc. He has directed works from both the Greek and international repertoires, including: Dimitris Dimitriadis\u2019s \u201cPhaethon\u201d and \u201cThe Circle of the Square\u201d, Euripides’s \u201cHelen\u201d and \u201cMedea\u201d, Thomas Bernhard’s \u201cHeroes’ Square\u201d, Virginia Woolf’s \u201cThe Waves\u201d, Harold Pinter’s \u201cAshes to Ashes\u201d, Aristophanes’s \u201cThe Clouds\u201d, Anton Chekhov’s \u201cThree Sisters\u201d and \u201cUncle Vanya\u201d, Marina Tsvetaeva’s \u201cPhaedra\u201d, Aeschylus’s \u201cPersians\u201d, William Shakespeare’s \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

His performances have been presented internationally at the Avignon Festival (68th edition), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, and the Oslo Nationaltheatret. He participated in the KunstenFestivalDesArts in Brussels, as a guest artist for its \u201cResidence & Reflections\u201d project. He was nominated for the European Theatre Prize (XVI edition) in the “New Theatrical Realities” category. He has been serving as Artistic Director of the theatre Proskinio in Athens since 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The presentation of “The House” was supported by the Onassis Stegi Touring Program<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Written and Directed:<\/strong> By Dimitris Karantzas<\/span><\/p>\n

    Concept:<\/strong> Dimitris Karantzas, Geli Kalampaka, Tassos Karachalios<\/span><\/p>\n

    Actors:<\/strong> Alexia Kaltsiki, Fidel Talampoukas<\/span><\/p>\n

    Video:<\/strong> Geli Kalampaka<\/span><\/p>\n

    Set:<\/strong> Clio Boboti<\/span><\/p>\n

    Costume Design:<\/strong> Ioanna Tsami<\/span><\/p>\n

    Movement:<\/strong> Tasos Karachalios<\/span><\/p>\n

    Music:<\/strong> George Ramantanis<\/span><\/p>\n

    Lights:<\/strong> Dimitris Kasimatis<\/span><\/p>\n

    Assistant To Direction:<\/strong> Kelly Papadopoulou<\/span><\/p>\n

    Set Designer Assistant:<\/strong> Angeliki Vassilopoulou Kampitsi<\/span><\/p>\n

    Line Production:<\/strong> Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi<\/span><\/p>\n

    Surtitles\u2019 Translation In English:<\/strong> Memi Katsoni<\/span><\/p>\n

    Tour Technical Manager:<\/strong> (Onassis Stegi) Stavros Kariotoglou<\/span><\/p>\n

    All The Above Contributed To The Play\u2019s Dramaturgy<\/span><\/p>\n

    Premiere:<\/strong> 20 September 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Discounts<\/b>: for students, pupils, seniors, people with disabilities, and POLA members.<\/p>\n

    For performing arts professional discounts, please contact bilietai@sirenos.lt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","festivalio_programa":[10,14],"class_list":["post-1838","programa","type-programa","status-publish","hentry","festivalio_programa-tarptautine","festivalio_programa-programme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/programa"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"festivalio_programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sirenos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festivalio_programa?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}