NTNG 2020: Babylonia, trailer

Venue: Lazaristes Monastery - Sokratis Karantinos Stage
Opening: 23 October 2020
Dimitrios K. Vyzantios wrote “Babylonia” in 1836. Using the language issue-the hottest topic of his era-as a backdrop, he created a work which put the problem posed by local dialects in the limelight, along with the need for a single Greek lingua franca. The author wanted to turn “this most saddening state of affairs” into a comedy, and thereby encourage the audience to prioritize education while highlighting the need for a standardized Modern Greek idiom. Lexical misunderstandings which feed into quarrels are a core feature of Greek popular comedy; in “Babylonia”, they provide the axis around which the text revolves. [bit.ly/34m1exP]
Credits
Adaptation-Direction: Takis Chrysikakos, Sets-Costumes: Savvas Paschalidis, Music: Dimitris Lagios, Choreography: Giorgos Sofianidis, Lighting: Stelios Tzolopoulos, Music coaching: Panagiotis Barlas, Assistant to the director & to the set-costume designer: Tatiana Nikolaidou, Second Assistant to the set-costume designer: Chara Argyroudi, Assistant to the lighting designer: Stathis Froussos, Production coordinator: Marily Ventouri
Cast: Takis Chrysikakos (Anatolian), Kosmas Zacharof (Policeman), Nikolas Maragkopoulos (Scholar), Kostas Itsios (Peloponnesian), Ilias Bermperis (Chiote), Dimitris Palaiochoritis (Innkeeper), Alexandros Moukanos (Arvanitis), Konstantinos Chatzisavvas (Cretan), Vasilis Papadopoulos (Cypriot), Lefteris Litharis (Police clerk), Thanasis Raftopoulos (Soldier)