On Saturday, July 9, actresses Evdokia Statiri and Filia Dendrinou, both with long careers in the art of storytelling, read texts about utopian cities on the show “Our Town” of ” The Voice of Greece”. There will be excerpts from:
– “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas (translation by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke). A voice work intended for radio.
A day in the life of a fictional town’s strange inhabitants reminds us of play, humanity, and the world’s beauty.
-“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino.
A love poem to cities, at a time when living in them, is becoming increasingly difficult.
– “The House” by Filia Dendrinou
A call to memory. Stories of a dilapidated house in the city.
Selected music is played in tandem with the texts.
On the second part of the show and the occasion of the publication of his micro-essays “The Stork’s Stand” (Stereoma Publications) poet, translator, child psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Thanasis Chatzopoulos, expands on his opinions and discusses with Themis Rodamitis about: “poetry and prose in their own time”, “the child-poet”, “the analogical thought”, “the poet as an ignoramus”, “the imprint of the body and the land”, “the dream portrait of K. Anghelaki-Rooke”, “Pessoa-Dickinson: When the writer is left in the shadow and the work hangs in the balance”, “language and its limits”, etc.
Curator, host: Themis Rodamitis