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Moby Dick at Pallas Theater
February 28, 2020 @ 9:00 pm - March 11, 2020 @ 11:30 pm
Start: 28 February 2020
End: 11 March 2020
Onassis Culture in collaboration with Theatrical Scenes present at Pallas Theater from 28 February 2020 one of the greatest works of world literature of all time, which is transformed into a musical (libretto and musical composition) by Dimitris Papadimitriou, directed by Yannis Kakleas. A thrilling musical adventure takes theatrical form and is transferred to the stage of Pallas Theater with innovations in set design, holograms, 3D graphics, live orchestra and choreography.
A curse. An omen. A man-eating caterpillar. A demonic, strange fairy-tale adventure or a philosophical workshop of ideas? Dimitris Papadimitriou, in collaboration with Yannis Kakleas, and with a great team of performers, are staging at the Pallas Theater the masterpiece of world literature and the fifth most widely read book in the history of Mankind, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Friendship, human destiny and the relationship between man’s limits and God on the stage of the Pallas Theater from 28 February 2020.
It is a work for the whole family, as its multi-layered story makes it both a breathtaking children’s adventure and a profound philosophical text. Yannis Kakleas’ direction brings Dimitris Papadimitriou’s musical to life on the city’s largest and most central theatre stage with the fairytale sets by Manolis Pantelidakis and the choreography by Angeliki Trombukis, the costumes by Ilenia Doujeleris accompanied by the impressive and novel holograms and 3d animation by Panagiotis Rappas that go beyond the hitherto known theatrical stereotypes.
The story of a charming, “crazy” captain who convinces his entire crew to follow him on his inner mission: to conquer his limits, Nature, his Fate, to reach and surpass God. Moby Dick’s dark fairy-tale metaphysics, his thrilling naval adventure, his gritty story, his theosophical quest are a beam of light in the dark labyrinths that man travels-today more than ever-in his quest for self-knowledge.
In this play, the evil Captain Ahab ends up a controversial Saint, the neglected and wounded Man seeking to regain the attention and love of his Father and God. By the end of the play, he has captivated the entire crew and audience along with him. They are asked to choose a “side” between the tragic hero, the unyielding fighter of Truth Captain Ahab, the one-man righteous family man Starbuck (first lieutenant), the indifferent joker Stump (second lieutenant), the one-dimensional, shallow materialist “third” Flask and finally the sensitive intellectual, the “historical chronicler” Ishmael.
Like all masterpieces, Moby Dick is a perpetual “genetic laboratory” of ideas. Just put the right concepts into the same story and they will in turn reproduce and spawn millions of new ideas and their combinations. This is how the masterpiece is reborn into the ages.
Libretto & music composition: Dimitris Papadimitriou
Director: Yannis Kakleas
MOBY DICK – COORDINATORS
Lyrics – Music: Dimitris Papadimitriou
Director: Yannis Kakleas
Production Executive: Gg Productions
Sets: Manolis Pantelidakis
3D Animation: Panagiotis Rappas
Costumes: Ilenia Doudeleri
Lighting: Stella Kaltsou
Technical Director of Holographic Projection: Vassilis Leonidopoulos
Choreography: Angeliki Trombuki
Sound Recording: Yannis Lampropoulos
Composer’s Assistant: Tasos Rosopoulos
Assistant Director: Feli Moschos
Felios Moschos Production Management: Konstantinos Sayas
Production Manager: Spyros Hatzanis
Stars (in alphabetical order) are:
Babis Velissarios
Thodoris Voutsikakis
Nicolas Karagiouris
Vassilis Kourtis
Ivan Svitailo
Emilianos Stamatakis
Still playing (alphabetically):
Samuel Akinola
Antonis Vlachos
Dimitris Georgalas
Konstantinos Efstratiou
Orpheus Zafeiropoulos
Jerome Kaluta
Thodoris Bouzikakos
Marios Petkidis
Phoebus Rimenas
Polycarp Filippidis
Dimitris Fourlis
Also participating is a ten-member orchestra