DON QUIXOTE (2012) - Set & Costume Design Assistant
Athens Festival 2012
Athens Festival 2012
Direction: Blitz Theater Group
Set & Costume Design: Eva Manidaki
Lighting Design: Tasos Palaioroutas
Set & Costume Design Assistant: Daphne Koutra
Masks: Nektarios Dionysatos
The performance follows the lonely journey of the knight from the first night he left Mancha until the time of his death. Don Quichotte is walking on a tread-mill, walking but not really moving, while he is being surrounded by strange birds and persons with masks, young men and women running in a de-serted landscape, in a weird Punishment Park, in a violent and irrational universe, where chaos reigns and all hope is gone. It is not clear if this strange world really exists or if it is the product of the hero’s deranged mind. It is not clear if this world is the universe of the book or the real world we live in. The production reworks the legend of the “knight of the heavy countenance” in an effort to pin down the loneliness of the man who chases windmills as he walks through a hard and incomprehensible world: a docufiction / static road movie about the adventure of being or, to quote László Krasznahorkai, the “melancholy of resistance”.
Photos: Yiorgos Makkas
Set & Costume Design: Eva Manidaki
Lighting Design: Tasos Palaioroutas
Set & Costume Design Assistant: Daphne Koutra
Masks: Nektarios Dionysatos
The performance follows the lonely journey of the knight from the first night he left Mancha until the time of his death. Don Quichotte is walking on a tread-mill, walking but not really moving, while he is being surrounded by strange birds and persons with masks, young men and women running in a de-serted landscape, in a weird Punishment Park, in a violent and irrational universe, where chaos reigns and all hope is gone. It is not clear if this strange world really exists or if it is the product of the hero’s deranged mind. It is not clear if this world is the universe of the book or the real world we live in. The production reworks the legend of the “knight of the heavy countenance” in an effort to pin down the loneliness of the man who chases windmills as he walks through a hard and incomprehensible world: a docufiction / static road movie about the adventure of being or, to quote László Krasznahorkai, the “melancholy of resistance”.
Photos: Yiorgos Makkas