The play

A., 32, is a film director. She was born in Athens in the 1990s and grew up in the provinces near the sea. Later she became an adolescent. Even later she became an adult. Somewhere around that time, she discovered films or rather, films discovered her.

Any time now, she’s expecting to learn whether her film will be her country’s official entry for an Oscar. While waiting, she shares her thoughts. She travels over the memories of recent history, touching on the Greek family; what it means, when you come down to it, to be a woman. Her monologue is on the guilt of reaching adulthood, the anxiety of poverty, the burden of identity, the fear of failure. She tries to say it all, leaving nothing out. She struggles to be contemporary and is concerned about being timeless. She blurs the boundaries between drama and comedy. And in the midst of all this she wonders most of all: What is, in fact, the real Capital.

Excerpt from the play

… I read a lot of books. And whatever I read, I believed to be true. I thought people used words in order to tell the truth. I didn’t realise that they only used them to tell their own truth. I didn’t realise that people simply say what they can say. I said what I thought. I said more, because I could say more. I said more, because I wasn’t as afraid. I didn’t realise that this, besides being honest, was also confrontational. I thought that everyone else also said as much as I did. And what I did. I didn’t realise…

Anastasia Antonakaki

Anastasia Antonakaki was born in Athens and grew up in Volos. She has a doctorate in Movement and Image (Performance Art/Sociology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). She has studied Law, Sociology, Dance, Theatre and Film. She has worked as a choreographer, artistic director, producer, script writer, director.

She has taught theatre, dance and the relationship between theatre and film at the University of Athens and in drama schools. She has worked with actors and dancers in Greece, England, Czechia and Serbia.

These past few years she has written and directed her own plays.

Starting with theatre, she has also gone into film, and her projects have travelled to festivals and art spaces in Greece and abroad (Clermont-Ferrand, Art Number 23, Dance Films ft Filmat Lincoln Center).

Das Kapital

Playwright – Director: Anastasia Antonakaki