Is there, perhaps, anything
that can disrupt our inertia and awaken within us once more the capacity to “see”
what we no longer have time to notice?
A student boards a train, as he does every day. This time, however, the train enters a tunnel with no end. As the darkness stretches on, his unease begins to grow. And yet, his fellow passengers remain unfazed, as though nothing at all were happening. Based on the allegorical short story by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, this adaptation follows that very passage into darkness, bound for an unknown destination. Or is there, in fact, no destination at all?
In the present day, human life unfolds under a state of sheer acceleration. Even as catastrophe, loss, and injustice take place all around us, we remain swept up in a motion already underway – resisting anything that might force us to stop and listen. Speed becomes a refuge; and within this ceaseless movement, we seem more than ever motionless and silent. In the face of this mute acceleration, the artist Panos Iliopoulos proposes a pause: “Perhaps it is enough to reacquaint ourselves with our own gaze, so that, like a whisper, that sensitivity may awaken within us – the one that once allowed us to feel truly human.”
The initiative GEN 260 is realised with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development.
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Translation Iannis Kalifatidis • Direction Panos Iliopoulos • Adaptation Panos Iliopoulos, Stavroula Krassakopoulou • Dramaturgy advisor Erie Kirjia • Set design Venetsanos Balopoulos • Costume design Kostis Glykantzis • Choreography Markella Tzaferi • Lighting design Tasos Palaioroutas • Music Alexandros Artemisios, Andreas Karaspilios • Set construction Giorgos Angelopoulos • Photography Akis Christou • Production management Maro Kyriakopoulou • Cast Eleni Giannouli, Titos Grigoropoulos, Antonis Dermitzakis, Ioanna Kokka, Odysseas Makris, Giorgos Boufidis, Christos Papageorgiou, Panagiota Papakyriakou, Anna Rizou • Special thanks to Hristos Theodoridis, Xenia Themeli, Michalis Pitidis, Giannis Konstantakopoulos
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