‘Fando and Lis’ and ‘The Prayer’

by Fernando Arrabal

Peris Michailidis, director .  Born in Alexandria, Egypt. He  enrolled at the Drama School of National Theatre of Northern Greece in 1974 and he participated in seminars intructed by Grotowski and his partners at the University of Rome. He worked as an actor at the National Theatre of Northern Greece from 1986 until 1992 and as a director for three years, 2005-’08. He created the “Machine” Theatre Company presenting pioneering performances on the works of Beckett, Seneca, Dostoevsky, Bernhard etc. In recent years I’ve acted in Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”.

Actors:

Dimitris Kapamas,

Arriti Kechagia,

Yiannis Petridis, 

Baptised to the plays of Arrabal by our teacher, Peris Michailidis, we found there what we want to say with our performance. The abyss of the human soul, the cruelty of human relationships, how love and violence are interconnected and all of this in the manner of Fando and Lis.

[Fando moves towards Lis. He looks at her with respect, very sadly approaches her. He holds her, sits her up. Her head keeps falling, inert. Fando doesn’t say anything. (The three men under the umbrella, standing up and solemn, have taken their hats off.) Fando rests her on the ground with great care, then arranges his mantle. Fando is close to tears. Suddenly he rests his forehead on her belly. Although we don’t hear him, he is probably crying.]

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Fando and Lis

by Fernando Arrabal 

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