{"id":731,"date":"2025-08-27T21:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analogio.pcinfo.work\/play\/what-reality\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:08:37","slug":"what-reality","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/play\/what-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"What Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dreams, memories and work schedules<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Phoebe and Panos love each other deeply but they are unemployed, up to their necks in debt, and threatened with eviction. Extreme measures are required. The absurd is lurking. People introduced: a mental health controller, a phone-sex line customer, a debt negotiator interested in unexpected trade-offs\u2026   <\/p>\n\n<p><em>When it comes down to it, how do you resist, when it all goes wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt from the play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>PANOS: I can\u2019t any longer.<\/p>\n\n<p>PHOEBE: How do we figure a way out?<\/p>\n\n<p>PANOS: My ideas are all black.<\/p>\n\n<p>PHOEBE: Mine aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n<p>PANOS: This is why we\u2019re together.<\/p>\n\n<p>PHOEBE: Fine, then I\u2019m in charge now.<\/p>\n\n<p>PANOS: Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Nina Rapi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Nina Rapi writes plays, short stories and essays. Her plays have been staged\/presented and\/or were published in London, Athens, New York, Slovakia, Italy, Poland, India. They include:<em> Angelstate, Splinters, Wild Beats, Did Persephone have the Stockholm Syndrome<\/em>, <em>Kiss the Shadow, Edgewise, Reasons to Hide<\/em>, <em>Ithaka<\/em>. She taught at London University and Greenwich University. Her latest short story collection <em>Field of Flow<\/em> has been published by Kappa Publications, while her previous collection, <em>State of Fugue<\/em>, was published by Kedros. Her essays have been published by the Cambridge University Press, Routledge and many more. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the ground breaking <em>Brand Literary Magazine<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ninarapi.com\">https:\/\/ninarapi.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Directorial note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Nina Rapi\u2019s new play What reality? reveals a new aspect of her theatrical discourse. She turns with ease from the fragmented speech, realistic cynicism, poetic writing and symbolism, elements that featured in her previous work, to black comedy. She doesn\u2019t swerve, however, from her ideological imperatives, which leave a strong political imprint, targeting a socio-political and conscious transition towards another reality. The purpose of the direction is to shed light on Rapi\u2019s indicting writing and to highlight her main theme, which is the attempt to impose upon and control human existence by powerful centres of control. The main directorial axis will move between polar opposites such as acquired needs and inherent desires, true love and unfeeling exploitation, humanity and ferocity. The direction will attempt to convey to the public the question that exists in the play\u2019s title and to query: Which reality do we choose? Are there others besides the ones that they are forcing upon us? Are we allowed to choose freely? If not, can we choose to flee and build our own reality? <strong>[Katerina Bilali]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Katerina Bilali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Katerina Bilali is an actor, theatrologist, theatrical translator, drama coach.<a> She graduated the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory (1999) and the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Patras (2021), where she is a doctoral candidate. <\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>She has taken part in more than 40 performances, working with the National Theatre, the Municipal Regional Theatres of Roumeli and Ioannina, as well as many other private theatre companies. She is a founding member of the group TheArtes (2020-the present day), artistic representative of the theatre group Anima (2014-2019).<\/p>\n\n<p>She received an honourary mention as an actor from the State Karolos Koun Awards 2024<strong>, <\/strong>for the role of Carmela in <em>Ay<\/em>,<em> <\/em><em>Carmela<\/em><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>She has translated plays, which were published by Iridanos Publications. Her play <em>Does mourning become Electra<\/em>? has been published by Nikas Publications. Her book <em>The rise of gendered issues through women\u2019s writing for contemporary Greek theatre after the 1990s <\/em>has been published by Aigokeros. She has published articles in journals on theatrology and literature.   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>What Reality?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>Dreams, memories and work schedules<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Playwright: Nina Rapti<\/p>\n\n<p>Director: Katerina Bilali<br\/>Actors: Pericles Lianos, Yiota Tsiotska, Spyridon Xenos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-731","play","type-play","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/731","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"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analogiofestival.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}