based on “DCX 212 Medea: Construction Site” by Z. D. Ainalis

Artistic Direction, Dramaturgy: Savvas Stroumpos

Performers: Natalia Georgosopoulou, Antonis Iordanou, Yiannis Ismirnioglou

The performance «Soma Medea», by Alas theatre company, is based on the play «DCX 212 Medea Constraction»: by Z. D. Ainalis and was written for this particular performance. It was presented during the theatrical season 2024-2025 in Athens, attracting the warm response from critics and viewers.

Savvas Stroumbos is responsible for the artistic supervision and adaptation.

Performed by Natalia Georgopoulou and Antonis Iordanou, with the show’s composer and musician Yannis Ismurnoglou on stage.

It is worth noting that the previous work of the group, “War Has No Woman Face” by Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich, was also presented with great success for two years, both in Greece and abroad.

Note:

Soma Medea or Medea wound, is a landscape of ultimate desire and lament.

Can life stem from a womb other than the unique visible or invisible wound that each person keeps within?

How can it be revealed? Which is the space and time destined to embrace the theatre of life?

Which is the stage that revives everything destined to pass into oblivion?

Medea and Jason remain unquestionably, inseparably together. Their mutual body is Hades, their souls, animating between myth and reality, play a theatre of life and death in Hades. In front of us we watch a game of two surviving shadows who experience the most human tragedy, that of devastation and desolation.

A game of two ghosts or two survivors experiencing the most human tragedy, that of ruin, that of desolation, of shadow.

Natalia Georgopoulou

Z.D. Ainalis – Brief Biography:

Z. D. Ainalis was born in Athens in 1982. He has published the poetry collections Electrocography (Gavriilidis Publications, Athens, 2006; 2nd edition, Thraka, Athens, 2018), The Silence of Siva (Vakxikon.gr Publications, Athens, 2011; 2016), The Fairy Tales of the Desert (Kedros, 2017), The Monody of the Desert (Kedros, 2019), and Something Slower (Ypokti, 2021); the collection of poetic narratives Excerpts (Gavriilidis Publications, Athens, 2008) as well as the poetic novels Michalis Tatsis – With the Cadre in His Hands (Panoptikon Publications, Thessaloniki, 2011) and Mythology (Panoptikon Publications, Thessaloniki, 2013). His poems have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Finnish.

He is a member of the editorial team of the literary magazine North-Northeast. He lives and works in Mytilene.

Soma Medea

Writer: Z. D. Ainalis

Artistic direction, Dramaturgy: Savvas Stroumpos

Co-creation / Actors: Natalia Georgosopoulou, Antonis Iordanou

Music composition, live music: Yannis Ismyrnioglou

Stage installation / costumes: Katerina Sotiriou

Assistant set designer: Marilena Moschou

Set construction: Telis Sofianopoulos

Costume construction: Parthenia Tsekoura

Photography: Ariadne Phytopoulou

Video/trailer: Stefanos Kosmidis/ORKI

Make-up: Virginia Tsichlaki

Poster: Katerina Sotiriou

Poster design: Georgia Sideri, Giannis Vergitsis

Production: Alas Theatre Company

Τrailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnZaHHurKpM

The website of the Alas group with more material on the performance Soma Medea (reviews, interviews, photos) as well as previous productions: https://alastheatre.gr/

*The work “DCX 212 Medea: Construction Site” by Z. D. Ainalis, published by Panoptikon Publications.