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GIOROS NEOPHYTOU
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ManoliManoli
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.
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
- Howard Loxton, British theatre Guide
Notes:
part of 23rd International Playwriting Festival
1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London 2009
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