The play

Trump, leader of the free world, wants it all, as he insinuated in his first statements, at the start of the year. Karagiozis, the shadow puppet who is the eternal Greek, marshals his surrealist humour and negotiations devolve into bargaining at a farmer’s market. A market where everything, tangible and intangible heritage, is on the bargaining table, and in the end Karagiozis manages to snatch from the president a cod’s tail in exchange for a pair of Despo’s tsarouchia clogs, which “stink”.

Excerpt from the play

TRUMP: I want Kythera, Greenland, Diakofto, Tadjikistan, Upper Toumba, Kalogreza, Lower Cuba, the House of Lords, Lordan the Barbarian, the relics of Saint Gerasimos, the drums of Katsantonis, the Nun’s yard, Lake Tanganyika, Mount Ararat along with Noah, Moses and the Ten Commandments, Guadalupe, Turkmenistan, the Sortie from Messolonghi, Aspasia the hetaera, the Broken Fount, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hidden Poems of Cavafy, Pericles’ Epitaphios, the Mahabharata, Kato Partali, the battle of Stalingrad, the Desert Fox…

Giannis Soldatos

Giannis Soldatos was born on the island of Lefkada. He wrote the History of
Greek Cinema and is the editor-in-chief of the publishing house Aigokeros. He was written literary works, plays and books on cinema. His plays have been staged, while he has also directed and produced for film, theatre and television.

When Karagiozis met Trump

Playwright: Giannis Soldatos

Director: Konstantinos Kyriakou

The actors (in alphabetical order) are:

Telis Zacharakis, Socrates Kotsores, Alexia Moustaka, Vicky Filippa.