Monologue

Based on the playwright’s own short story of the same name

The play

Every person has their fault line, through which they seep out, along with all they believe about themselves, what we term “personality”.

Iason, a humiliated, put-upon teacher, discovers the opposite: a fragmentation point not for himself, but for his three-dimensional environment, from which he can choose to seep into another dimension, another way of existing. The hermetically closed and air-tight system of his life has now fragmented. And his only longing now is to live that magical “again”, which for a single moment was revealed to him. To make the fault line a rift.

Or will perhaps the timespan for happiness in humans always be too short?

Excerpt from the play

And if the others thought that I was always spaced out, someone with a certain access, perhaps, to something else, beyond reality, it looked that way, because, very simply, … I found reality here to be particularly pointless. Yes, absolutely boring. I told you already that my only joy was a piss at the end of the day, why are you talking about daydreams, mysticism and poetry and all kinds of bullshit… No man, that sort of thing didn’t go for me. Never. However…

Vasilis Katsikonouris

Vassilis Katsikonouris has written the plays: The Milk, California Dreamin’, The Harley Jacket, Makis, Kangaroo, The Missing, Cheetah and others, which have been staged at the Greek National Theatre, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, various Municipal Regional Theatres, the Dimitris Horn Theatre, the Stoa, the Metaxourgeio Theatre, the Stathmos Theatre, the Neos Kosmos Theatre, the Apothiki Theatre, the M. Kakoyiannis Foundation, Hellenic World and others; in Cyprus (The Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Dionysos Theatre, ETHAL- the Limassol Theatre Development Company and others); as well as Poland, Serbia and Germany.

In 2011 his play The Milk was adapted for film, with a script by the author.

He has received National Awards for Playwrights from the Greek Ministry of Culture, with a prize in the Onassis Foundation International Competition and audience prizes from the magazine Athinorama.

THE 7:45 pm RIFT (AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!)

Playwright: Vasilis Katsikonouris
Director: Manos Karatzoyiannis