The sea and the old man

THE SEA AND THE OLD MAN
Based on Ernest Hemingway's play "The Old Man and the Sea"
Adaptation - directed by Marlene Kaminski
Starring: Tasos Nousias, Vassilis Milionis, Phaedra Soutou

2ND YEAR OF PERFORMANCES

After the great and extremely successful summer tour around Greece and the 2nd winter cycle of sold out performances in Thessaloniki and other major cities, the performance "The Sea and the Old Man", which received rave reviews, returns for its second year of touring in selected theatres.

The theatrical productions Dimitris Fotopoulos IKE present:

"The Sea and the Old Man" is an adaptation based on the classic and
Ernest's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Old Man and the Sea"
Hemingway, after which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The
this work ranks among the masterpieces of world literature
and is likened to an Homeric epic.

It describes the story of a fisherman, Santiago - played by
Tasos Nousias- and his journey to the unexplored and vast
sea. His epic encounter with a magnificent blue marlin, which
the hero managed to fish after 84 days without a catch. The fish
is very strong, Santiago doesn't manage to kill it and it
hooked by his line, pulling him and his little boat
deeper and deeper into the sea for three days and three nights. Ο
Santiago finally manages to kill the fish but because it is very
big enough to fit in the boat, he ties it to the side of the boat. On her way
his return sharks attack him and eat all his flesh
of a huge fish. Underneath this simple story, there is a world
rich in symbolism and metaphors in the search for meaning,
the endurance of the human spirit and its conflictual relationship
man with the natural environment.

Manolino, played by Vassilis Milionis, is the
Santiago's devoted young apprentice. As his father
no longer allows him to go fishing with Santiago, Manolino
can only visit him in his daydreams and his nightmares
dreams in the sea and thus the connection between memory is made,
present and future.

Hemingway wrote the story in 1951 and Marlene Kaminksi wrote it
transports it to our modern times. On the occasion of the title, added the
the figure of the Sea performed by the dancer Phaedra Soutou
and with her voice Evelyn Assouad.

"The emergence of the self in the wild is an escape from safety and security.
atrophy of the spirit produced by security. It is for the sake of releasing the
of the human spirit and, in the process, man becomes part of the deep harmony
of the physical universe". Leo Gorko "The heroic impulse in The Old Man and the Sea"

DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Reading history from the perspective of the industrialized and
modern environment of the 21st century, I was reminded of the
the primordial struggle and harmony between Man and Nature. If
one has learned how to work with and within nature instead of
tries to conquer and destroy it, there is no limit to the
depth of a real understanding of its mysteries. The fate of
of man cannot be separated from the fate of the oceans. However
these, 70 years since history was written, direct or indirect
human impact has damaged the health of the oceans, something that with
in turn affects life on land. Combining text and dance
and 3D animation screenings, I hope to invite the audience to
immersed in a holistic universe setting in which they might be able to
remember our inevitable and enigmatic connection with nature.
In the words of Lmi Ponifasio (theatre director from
Samoa and choreographer) "it is not possible to change the human
behavior without revising our spirituality." No
we can only hope that only by using technology,
spending money, establishing guidelines will
avoid the climate emergency and man-made
destruction of natural habitats and biodiversity.

As artists it is our duty to find ways to improve
the quality of the way people feel, hear,
see and touch the world. What is our role on earth? We are
part of the earth's processes and these processes were happening very
before us and will happen long after we're gone.
Marlene Kaminski