A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
Direction
Zois weaponizes the fourth wall until it shatters.
Acting
Blurred lines between performers and 'real' audience members.
Writing
Greek tragedy structure devouring itself in real-time.
Director
Yorgos Zois
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the actual Rex Theatre in Athens, a neoclassical landmark built in 1935—its real history of Nazi occupation during WWII haunts every frame.
The film adapts Aeschylus's 'The Suppliants,' itself about refugees seeking asylum—Zois makes the audience into the threatened city-state.
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