The play

A cat on the balcony of an apartment belonging to a middle class family, comprising “mummy” –an attorney- “daddy” –a teacher- and her “brother” – their eight-year-old son.

Kitty has it all: Love, good food, vets, calm, cuddles; and is fully integrated into human society.

This cat learns to handle a computer, to love good books, she likes to observe, to criticise and slowly starts to comprehend what is going on around her, to perceive what she wants and doesn’t want, who her friends are and who are her enemies.

A cat on a balcony. What will happen on the day she decides to jump down into the apartment building garden?

Excerpt from the play

I am an animal – that’s what you call me, an “animal” – without ever admitting that I behave like you, a person, would. Unfortunately we cats copy your foolish habits, your idiotic behaviours. You used violence to remove us from our innocence, from our primitive lives and to made us just like you.

Minas Vintiadis

Minas Vintiadis is a journalist and author, born in Port Said in 1957 Said. He worked for approximately thirty years in the newspapers To Vima and Ta Nea, in various management positions, was for five years editor-in-chief of the historical magazine O Tahidromos, and he has also made cultural programming for the Third Programme on state radio.

He has written six novels, a collection of short stories, two children’s books and more than twenty plays, including Lower Parthenon, which was played by the National Theatre of Norther Greece, at the Alma, in London, Oxford, Brussels and was taught at the University; Tatoo land, which was nominated in 2018 for the Karolos Koun Award; Andromeda, which was staged in English at the Oxford International Festival; My brother Amadeus, which was staged at the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens.

The confessions of a cat

Playwright – Director: Minas Vintiadis