“These are the things each of us lives through – and they are what shape us. But some turn them to good, others to harm. We are not all made of the same material.” The line emerges from the lips of the story’s heroine as both a moment of recognition and a sealing of a long, strange, and painful journey. It is the story of a girl born somewhere in central Greece – a girl not unlike the others, as fairy tales often go, but a girl exactly like them. The only thing that sets her apart is that on the day she was born, nine or ten wolves passed through the snow outside her house, as her mother would tell her. An omen, as though each animal foreshadowed a hardship that would one day come to pass. “If each of us could understand the material we are made of, might we also be able to shape it?”
The Wolves’ Tale is the true story of a woman from Thessaly (1928-2017); it is a dream her grandson once had; it is the death of her brother during the Greek Civil War; it is an incident her son experienced; it is the folk ballad The Dead Brother’s Song; it is Heiner Müller’s Hamletmachine; it is Sophocles’ Electra. Above all, however, it is a tale about domestic violence as an aftershock of political violence, written precisely to speak of this and to pose a question: can a human being ever break the chain of violence?
The initiative GEN 260 is realised with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development.
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Direction – Text – Movement Dimitris Tsikouras (Tsik) • Assistant to the director & movement Xenia Tabourou • Set design – Masks Yannis Theodorakis • Music Giota Dimitrakopoulou • Costume design Alexandra Stamati • Lighting design Tasos Palaioroutas • Cast Charalambos Athanasopoulos, Andromachie Makridou, Dafni Markaki, Dimitris Tsikouras (Tsik), Antigoni Fryda
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