The play

A couple with their seventeen-year-old son are living a calm ordinary life on their farm, cultivating almond trees. One day they are visited by a stranger, who is a beekeeper and appears friendly. The parents worry, however, because their son is late coming home, and they don’t know whether something has happened to him.

What does the stranger want? And if the bees are dying, is someone to blame?

An allegorical text on human alienation from the climate change that is upon us.

Excerpt from the play

This break did me good. I sat down and thought about why I would need that kind of money. I couldn’t find an answer. Then, I think I really looked at nature around me and it was like I comprehended that by being in tune with nature could I be happy…

The young ones are at war, they swarm above the land and fight to save it. And what do we do? Do we simply observe?

Dimitris Foutsias

Dimitris Foutsias was born in Athens and is a playwright, director and group coordinator for creative writing and theatre groups. He has written twelve plays.

These have been staged in Greece (Aliki theatre, M. Kakoyiannis Foundation, Vault et al.) and abroad (Cyprus, Oxford, London). The snow on my teeth (Aparsis Publications, 2022) and Meatball (Kapa Publications, 2020) have both been published.

A founding member of the theatre company Plasters, he has directed three of his own plays: Rigolios the journey of a stripe; Acceptance speech, Patrocluss anatomy.

His short stories and poems have been published in collections and magazines and have received awards.

He is the artistic director of the Icaria Festival With my own wings (2023-2024). www.dimitrisfoutsias.gr