RODOKANAKIS REDISCOVERED 1908-2008
THE CRIMSON ROSE
Based on the story "The Crimson Rose" by Platon Rodokanakis
Performed at locations where he lived or that related to his work: the Byzantine Museum of Athens (3-13/7), BIOS (16-22/7), the Isadora Duncan Centre for Dance Study (26-30/7), the Kastromina Theater, Chios (29-31/8), and the Benaki Museum Pireaus Building (20-23/9) 2008
Production: "ohi pezoume" performing arts company
The theatrical performance seeks out the secret that for more than a century lay behind the story of "The Crimson Rose", and which inspired P. Yiannopoulos to commit suicide by entering the Skaramaga sea with his horse, Christomanos to go to courts over claims of plagiarism, and Lapathiotis to fall deeply in love. It is this same secret which led a journalist with the Acropolis newspaper—where he had started being published—to go down to the printing-presses with a hammer and destroy all the pieces that seemed to him irreverent.
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