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GIOROS NEOPHYTOU |
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Nationality: Cypriot Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Plays by Gioros Neophytou |
Manoli | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95714 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | part of 23rd International Playwriting Festival | |||||
Synopsis: | The dramatist describes it as a duologue, the second character being the title role Manoli, a rather overweight cat whom the actress has to make us imagine by the way she directs her conversation to him. At first this seems to be a simple situation: a boy outside taking pot shots with is shotgun and this black-dressed widow worried that her much loved companion could become a target. As it unfolds this becomes a much darker story that harks back eleven years to another gunshot when the woman's son was killed as a political opponent of the rebelling faction that sought power and precipitated the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus. It is a moving evocation of a situation many must have lived through in places where there has been civil conflict, a neighbour the known killer of one you loved. That it is written now, more than a further two decades from when it is set and those events have largely been swept under the carpet is significant in itself, but for a non-Cypriot audience it will have a much wider resonance. This production by Andreas Christodoulides (Artistic Director of Theatro Ena) emphasises the relationship between woman and the cat that was a tiny kitten when her son was killed, which makes her isolation more apparent and by avoiding the over dramatic actually strengthens the dramatic effect. | |||||
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