The first part of the show on Thursday, January 2, 2025, was dedicated to the challenges, expectations, and prospects for 2025, with insights from Mr. Michalis Glezakos, Professor of Finance at the University of Piraeus, and Mr. Dimitris Tzanidakis, an international relations expert.
In the second hour, guests in the studio were actress Maria Maltabe and director Francesca Minutoli, who present the play The Yellow Wallpaper every Thursday at 9 PM at the Alkmini Theater in Kato Petralona. The classic Gothic literature short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, written in 1890, is presented in a contemporary adaptation at the Alkmini Theater, directed by Francesca Minutoli and with a theatrical adaptation by Katerina Loukidou.
After each performance, there is a series of discussions on the topics of postpartum depression and the trauma of women related to reproduction. Our guests spoke about the work, written in a time when feminism was only an idea in the minds of a few brave women and, as expected, it was censored. However, it served as a catalyst for changing perceptions about the treatment of postpartum depression, which, until then, imposed isolation on women and enforced a regime of “calm.”
In the studio of Voice of Greece, we talked about the demands of the performance and the role, how it can affect both women and men today, and the importance of staging works like this in a time when gender-based violence is on the rise. It is a work that pays tribute to the feminist movement, in which a woman suffering from postpartum depression records her interaction with the abstract designs of the yellow wallpaper in her room, which gradually engulfs her and leads to her liberation. The work highlights the social aspects of postpartum depression resulting from gender inequalities within and outside of the partnership. It sheds light on the invisible and unresolved traumas of women related to reproduction, which are often overlooked by the medical process and public discourse.