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Andreas Flourakis

ANDREAS FLOURAKIS

  (1969 - )
Nationality:    Greek
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aNDReaS FLOURaKIS is a writer and instructor of playwriting. He participated in the Royal Court International Residency in 2001 and served as visiting professor on Playwriting at the University of Kansas during the course of his Fulbright award in 2005. He has published three books of poems, two novels and three plays. the Days Before You Came (2002), Faith -material (2002) and Her Leaves (Cultural Olympiad, 2003) have been produced in Greece by the Theatre of the South. Faith was included as part of the 2002 Intercity Festival, Florence, and in 2003 his play Ice received special distinction in the one-act competition held by the art Theatre, athens. His play the Phoenix and Its Chicken, was given a reading at the Gate Theatre, London (2003) at the Inge Theatre, Kansas (2005) and at the Frederick Loewe Theatre (2007), as part of HotInk festival in New York. a script-in-hand performance of his play, atreides, was presented at the University of Kansas and at the closing of the 29th Comparative Drama Conference in L.a, California. (2005). Some of his plays are available for free downloading at www.costis.org/books.

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below is a list of Andreas Flourakis's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Animal         Antelopes         Atreides, End         Cassie         Crossings Plays, The         Days Before You Came, The         Greece         Her Leaves         In An Hour         Phoenix And Its Chicken, The         Sea Blue         Stemcells

Animal

Synopsis:
the relaxed pace of a middle-aged couple's life changes when, after a minor explosion near the place they live, they receive an unexpected guest. In contrast with the wife, who thinks that the explosion is the result of a common accident, the husband is convinced that their nearly scorched, disheveled guest is an alien coming from outer space. Nevertheless, they decide to adopt this stranger as their son. after a series of murders including animals and a human being, the couple is worried that "their son" has some involvement with this.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Arama Tiyatosu Theatre, Istanbul     2007

Organisations:
Oyun Yaz Festival (Scratch Nights)

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Antelopes

Synopsis:
Two sisters, Soti and anna, share a flat in england where they're at University, while their Father works all day in his shop in athens to keep them there. Rivalry between the sisters escalates when Soti persuades her own lover, a young man of Greek parents, to seduce the virginal anna. In Greece, their Father conducts his own affair with a married woman while tortured by memories of his dead wife. Over several hot days the tension in the family builds to breaking point. the play is told in a non-linear fashion playing with conventions of time and place, following an emotional rather than a realistic narrative.

Notes:
translation/adaptation by Tajinder Singh Hayer

1st Produced:
Courtyard, West Yorks Playhouse, Leeds     2006

Organisations:
the Janus Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Atreides, End

Synopsis:
after the assassination of Klytaimnystra and aegistos, the government of argos was handed to the descendants, who are much less interested in the political affairs. the Royal House's ex-gardener, Pholus, now electra's husband, is secretly in charge. the two sisters, electra, who erotically desires her brother, Orestes, and Chrysothemis, herself in love with the third sister, Iphegenia, intend to prevent the incest between Iphegenia and Orestes. Iphegenia's magical powers bring the dead Cassandra back to life in order to foretell Orestes' future. Cassandra, who is only visible to Iphegenia, becomes the escort to the Reign of Death of all the souls murdered for passion and authority throughout the play.

Notes:
a stage reading of the play Appeared At April 2005 At the closing of the 29th Comparative Drama Conference in Hidden Hills, Los Angeles

1st Produced:
Staged Reading At The 29th Comparative Drama Conference, La     2005

Organisations:
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1st Published:
www.costis.org/books,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cassie

Synopsis:
Cassie, a pet name for Cassandra, leaves the underworld temporarily behind her, after Iphigenia's evocation (atreides, end). Cassie, on her way to the world of the living, narrates a series of stories which connect her either to a setting of ancient and contemporary myths or to the realm of memory and dream. Cassie is a play without stage directions, therefore open to different readings, while the duration of the play is equal to the actual walking of the character up the world of the living. Cassie is a girl as odd as any imaginative creature with a firm grasp of what death is about. Her speech aims at infusing the events of the atreides myth with aspects of the contemporary complex reality.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
???? Meeting On Ancient Drama     2007

Organisations:
Delphi Festival, Greece

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Crossings Plays, The

Synopsis:
A double bill of two short plays from two writers from Greece and Italy, exploring the impact of the migration crisis in their countries and communities.

Notes:
by Andreas Flourakis & Fausto Paravidino

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Genre:
two short plays

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Days Before You Came, The

Synopsis:
This dark comedy tells the story of a family beset by a series of murders. In the Days Before You Came what is left unsaid by the characters is of as much importance as what they say to one another. as observers we are given only fragments of conversation. Characters ask questions that at first seem simple, but, upon examination, we find that they are at the root of human existence. In the beginning of the play, the Father asks the question "Is there a way out of here?" He is haunted by the realization that there are many doors and, thus, many choices. We are all the summation of our choices. People are murdered. If there is a "life after life after death" it seems that we are stuck with the same people and, thus, the same doors or choices. In the Days Before You Came there is no Heaven or Hell. there is no final answer. there is only the unbearable repetition of choices.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Of The South     2002

Organisations:
Theatre of the South

1st Published:
theatron magazine of Washington University (Vol.3) www.costis.org/books, 2006   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Greece

Synopsis:
International writers join up with their British counterparts to bring their experiences to the Royal Court. What is life really like for those living in todays austerity. Daily dispatches from Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain will invade the Jerwood theatre Upstairs. "With unemployment reaching almost 30% in Greece, soup kitchens springing up and immigrants being physically assaulted by Neo-Nazis on a regular basis it seems like the right time to put the lives of those affected by the eurozone crisis centre-stage at the Royal Court. Collaborating with writers from the countries on the frontline of austerity and using a variety of theatrical forms we will bring the PIIGS into the heart of London for a week of tragedy, comedy and rage" - Alexi Kaye Campbell, Playwright

Notes:
Andreas Flourakis (Athens), Alexi Kaye Campbell (London), Translated by Alexi Kaye Campbell

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Her Leaves

Synopsis:
a middle-aged woman counts "Her leaves", her life, that is. In a sharp and bitter way she narrates all the stories that marked the 45 years of her life. She ends her monologue with a count-down and returns back to the present. Hidden behind the roses of her balcony, the heroine feels secure. She keeps her eyes shut and starts the "count-down". She counts the "leaves", she recalls, in other words, the people she loved, and those she misses. Memories come to mind, archiving past thoughts, events and emotions. In "Her leaves", though, Andreas Flourakis prefers to use bitter irony, cynicism and an abrupt way of expression. Thus, his heroine uses a laconic monologue, "restrained", and "distant" from the facts of her life.

Notes:
English Translation by Maria Tranou

1st Produced:
Spring Theatre, Athens     2003

Organisations:
Cultural Olympiad in athens

1st Published:
www.costis.org/books,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In An Hour

Synopsis:
a woman dies. Her son and grandson meet at the beach, just before her funeral.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Workshop Theater At Brooklyn College, New York     2007

Organisations:
GI60 Festival

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
one minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Phoenix And Its Chicken, The

Synopsis:
a Mother and a Father, a Man and a Woman, a Doctor and a Nurse, and an unfortunate victim, all cross paths in a hospital and become intertwined in ways that push all boundaries of the appropriate and expected. exploring the deeper comic underbellies of violence, sexuality, and caretaking, the playwright seeks to unburden the audience, to help them diminish their fear about things that have to do with moral issues, illness and death.

Notes:
the English Translation made by Alexi Kaye Campbell And commissioned by the Royal Court theatre. A reading of the play was performed At the Gate theatre in the GReeK theaTRe TODaY week, November 2003, London. In August 2001 scenes of the play were read in the Royal Court theatre, London.

1st Produced:
Hotink Festival, New York     2007

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
the Brooklyn Rail: In Translation,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sea Blue

Synopsis:
a look at more cynical attitudes to control.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Stemcells

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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