Mystery 76 Don't Look Back

Γιάννης Χουβαρδάς (Yannis Houvardas); Έρι Κύργια (Eri Kirgia); Εύα Μανιδάκη (Eva Manidaki); Ιωάννα Τσάμη (Ioanna Tsami); Θοδωρής Οικονόμου (Thodoris Economou); Χριστίνα Θανάσουλα (Christina Thanasoula); Μαρκέλλα Μανωλιάδη (Markella Manoliadi); Κώστας Μιχόπουλος (Kostas Michopoulos); Χαρίκλεια Πετράκη (Harikleia Petraki); Νεφέλη Βλαχοπαναγιώτη (Nefeli Vlachopanagioti); Δέσποινα Λάρδη (Despina Lardi); Άννα Ζούλια (Anna Zoulia); Βασιλική Σουρή (Vassiliki Souri); Κώστας Μπώκος (Kostas Bokos); Μαρίτα Βλασσοπούλου (Marita Vlassopoulou); Γιάννης Βογιατζής (Yannis Vogiatzis); Στεφανία Γουλιώτη (Stefania Goulioti); Καρυοφυλλιά Καραμπέτη (Karyophyllia Karampeti); Ράνια Οικονομίδου (Rania Economidou); Ιωάννα Κολλιοπούλου (Ioanna Koliopoulou); Kostas Koroneos (Κώστας Κορωναίος); Έκτορας Λυγίζος (Hector Ligizos); Παντελής Παπαδόπουλος (Pantelis Papadopoulos); Δημήτρης Παπανικολάου (Dimitris Papanikolaou); Καλλιόπη Σίμου (Kalliopi Simou); Αποστόλης Τότσικας (Apostolis Totsikas); Πηνελόπη Τσιλίκα (Penelope Tsilika); Σπύρος Ντόγκας (Spyros Dogas); Κωνσταντίνα Βέρρου (Konstantina Verrou)

Mystery 76 Don't Look Back

project

Description

Mystery 76 Don't Look Back was an original creation by Yannis Houvardas, that was presented at the Old Oil Mill Factory of Elefsina in May 2023. The three Warehouses of the Old Oil Mill Factory of Elefsina were transformed into the abandoned Hotel Spectre in which the spectres of the mythical lovers Orpheus and Eurydice were brought to life, portraying the fateful moments of their tragic love. An unprecedented dreamlike journey that blurred the lines between audience and performers, inviting spectators to make crucial decisions at key points in their tour. Walking the line between thriller, science fiction and metaphysical performance, Mystery 76 Don’t Look Back drew inspiration from the one condition imposed by Hades, king of the Underworld, on Orpheus if he wanted to bring his beloved Eurydice back up with him to the world of the living: Don’t look back. The project was also inspired by other famous tragic love stories as captured in film, theatre, poetry, music, dance, visual and other art forms.The audience stepped into a labyrinthian ghost hotel, the Hotel Spectre, starting a “descent” to Hades. Following the dreamlike figures as they appeared, acted and disappeared, the audience was drawn into a close-up experience of their own. All these figures who were, at some point in their lives, an Orpheus or a Eurydice, were now the fragments of a tragic, unrequited or unredeemed love. A love that was born and died inside the Hotel Spectre, leaving the “victim” – and sometimes the “perpetrator” – mutilated, like immaterial visions, wandering in the rooms of the “hotel”, without the possibility of contact or any communication with their partner, sometimes visible to the public, but not to themselves. During this journey, time seemed to have paused at the “cursed moment” when the fatal event occurred – whether a murder or a suicide, a painful separation or a terminal illness, betrayal or madness, even an unexpected and unexplained disappearance. The spectre of each hero returned again and again, without end, without redemption, as if in repeated punishment, to the place and time of the “crime”, searching for their lost other half, reliving the event that led them to this state of “eternal captivity”. Space and time lost their ordinary form and, as in a dream, the conscious submitted to the subconscious. Imagination became dominant and anything could happen.

Artists

Γιάννης Χουβαρδάς (Yannis Houvardas), Έρι Κύργια (Eri Kirgia), Εύα Μανιδάκη (Eva Manidaki), Ιωάννα Τσάμη (Ioanna Tsami), Θοδωρής Οικονόμου (Thodoris Economou), Χριστίνα Θανάσουλα (Christina Thanasoula), Μαρκέλλα Μανωλιάδη (Markella Manoliadi), Κώστας Μιχόπουλος (Kostas Michopoulos), Χαρίκλεια Πετράκη (Harikleia Petraki), Νεφέλη Βλαχοπαναγιώτη (Nefeli Vlachopanagioti), Δέσποινα Λάρδη (Despina Lardi), Άννα Ζούλια (Anna Zoulia), Βασιλική Σουρή (Vassiliki Souri), Κώστας Μπώκος (Kostas Bokos), Μαρίτα Βλασσοπούλου (Marita Vlassopoulou), Γιάννης Βογιατζής (Yannis Vogiatzis), Στεφανία Γουλιώτη (Stefania Goulioti), Καρυοφυλλιά Καραμπέτη (Karyophyllia Karampeti), Ράνια Οικονομίδου (Rania Economidou), Ιωάννα Κολλιοπούλου (Ioanna Koliopoulou), Kostas Koroneos (Κώστας Κορωναίος), Έκτορας Λυγίζος (Hector Ligizos), Παντελής Παπαδόπουλος (Pantelis Papadopoulos), Δημήτρης Παπανικολάου (Dimitris Papanikolaou), Καλλιόπη Σίμου (Kalliopi Simou), Αποστόλης Τότσικας (Apostolis Totsikas), Πηνελόπη Τσιλίκα (Penelope Tsilika), Σπύρος Ντόγκας (Spyros Dogas), Κωνσταντίνα Βέρρου (Konstantina Verrou)

Stages of Implementation

3 months of rehearsals at the Megaron Concert Hall and in Elefsina Meeting point: Canteen (coastal front) Opening night: 19-05-2023 Performance days: 19-05-2023 and 22-05-2023 to 29-05-2023 Admission time: 21:00 (public attendance: 20:30) & 23:00 (public attendance: 22:15) Duration: 100 minutes

Partners

Two Monkeys Productions, Studio 19

Tickets Policy

General admission: 15€, reduced ticket: €10 (students, people from 65 years and above), special admission (unemployed, persons with disabilities and accompanying persons, actors) 5€.