{"id":6463,"date":"2026-09-22T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/play\/i-call-her-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:58:27","slug":"i-call-her-mother","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/play\/i-call-her-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"I CALL HER MOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The play is based on The Button (To Koubi), written by Tassoula Tsilimeni (Kastaniotis Editions, 2017), which has also been published in French.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The characters of the play emerge from the untamed paths of memory. They recall childhood, loss and trauma \u2014 the Greece of the past and the women of the countryside. Women who are mothers, women of quiet endurance, living on the slopes of Mount Olympus and in the neighbourhoods of provincial towns during the 1960s. Before they become mothers, mothers are girls \u2014 girls who play at growing up. Through their innocent games, they encounter and ultimately clash with the paradoxical adult world.<br\/>These are nostalgic and accusatory narratives, reflecting on what they lived through and what they never had the chance to live. The work is a dramatised narrative guided by the emotional landscapes of rural imagery and the free associations of memory. It is a work about the funeral rite of memory.         <br\/><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>D. Mother, look around the bend. Look\u2026 a handful of lights across the plain. Sykourio\u2026 Evangelismos\u2026 look.<br\/>M. There it comes at last\u2026 The mist. That\u2019s been the ruin of us.<br\/>D. What are we to do now?<br\/>M. Don\u2019t be afraid. Keep walking. It\u2019ll lift further on.        <br\/>D. It won\u2019t lift, Mother. It\u2019s closing in. The whole world is vanishing!   <br\/>M. Walk on, I said. Don\u2019t let fear take hold of you.  <br\/>D. We\u2019ll be swallowed by it, Mother. The child, you, me\u2026 We\u2019ll go over a cliff and no one will ever find us.   <br\/>M. Do you hear them, daughter? Do you hear? Those are Dapos\u2019s dogs. Do you hear them? (Far away, the sound of dogs barking.)     <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Creative Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Written by<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/biography\/tasoula-tsilimeni\/\">Tassoula Tsilimeni<\/a><br\/><strong>Dramaturgy \/ Direction<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/biography\/filia-dendrinou\/\">Filia Dendrinou<\/a><br\/><strong>Performed by<\/strong>: Maria Damasioti, Filia Dendrinou<br\/><strong>Video \/ Sound processing<\/strong>: Vangelis Katsigiannis<br\/><strong>Music curation<\/strong>: Filia Dendrinou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-6463","play","type-play","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/6463\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}