MONODRAMA FESTIVAL - Kassandra

MONODRAMA FESTIVAL - Kassandra

KASSANDRA – 

A STAND-UP TRAGEDY IN BROKEN ENGLISH 

By Sergio Blanco

With Despina Sarafeidou

Greece

In broken English 

Using the mythical Cassandra of Greek tragedy, playwright Sergio Blanco creates a one woman tour-de-force. Kassandra, wearing red patent-leather boots, reveals her Odyssey. Sex, war, and power, winners and losers. In her off-kilter immigrant English, she talks about our own search for meaning and hope. Tears and laughter, sarcasm and humor, Euripides and Bugs Bunny. The distance between myth and reality, performer and audience, space and text collapses.

Kassandra is performed in broken English by a protagonist who is simultaneously the Cassandra of ancient Greek tragedy and a transsexual immigrant prostitute in any city of the 21st century – an exile in her own body, a stranger in every country.

Direction Despina Sarafeidou - Evangelia Andritsanou

Costumes Loukia Minetou

Music selected by Vasilis Tsonoglou

Photos / Lights Dimitris Gerakitis

Graphic design Dennis Spearman

Trailer Christos Mouroukis

Production team Theodoros Kagkelaris, Thanos Kappas, Alexis Karatzas, Eleni Karra, Christina Kouli, Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Eleni Panitska, Tzeni Paraskevopoulou, Anneta Pylarinou, Antonis Rokakis, Toula Stavrakoudi, Maria-Xenia Stylianou, Larissa Vergou