The play

The six Caryatids from the Erechtheion have for centuries decorated the temple on the northern side of the Acropolis with dignity and resolution. One fatal night on the rock their sibling bond was taxed when Anthia was seized.

Many years later the five remaining Caryatids come to life in the Acropolis Museum. A random encounter sparks the reconstitution of their lost memories and they settle on a daring escape plan.

The play is a tender allegory about historical memory, self-actualization and the need for change, through the gaze of female forms which remain eternally motionless.

Excerpt from the play

It lingered in the testimony of Athenians who remembered that night, when the sixth Caryatid vanished. They said that a song of mourning rose from the Erechtheion on the rock and travelled on the wind to awaken the citizens of Athens that fateful night. Many wrote of it, but they were never certain what it said, whether the wind fooled them or whether that mournful song was a assortment of the sobs that echoed from every corner of the city.

Konstantina Spyropoulou

Konstantina Spyropoulou is an author with a passion for history and the voices of women within it.

She studied English Language and Literature at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where she also carried out postgraduate studies in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

She is an educator in Dubai.

Strawberries in July is her first full-scale theatrical play. Her writing draws inspiration from Greek myths, contemporary society and the everyday experience of women, combining the classical and the contemporary with humour.

She loves the theatre as a form of expression, empowerment and catharsis.

She lives between Dubai, Athens and her imagination.

Strawberries in July

Playwright: Konstantina Spyropoulou

Director: Chrysa Kapsouli