The Third Wreath at Pallas Theater

Season: 2020-2022
Start: 16 October 2020
End: 9 January 2022

Kostas Tachtis’ masterpiece “The Third Wreath” is revived at the Pallas Theater with the signature of Konstantinos Markoulakis, with the audience enjoying the iconic roles of Hecave and Nina played by Maria Kavoyannis and Maria Kitsou.

A troupe of talented actors and actresses enters the vortex of Minos Matsas’ new, original music, bringing to the stage the sounds and images of an entire era.

This is a major production of the Theatrikes Skines, which will be presented in a new adaptation, highlighting the poetry and narrative qualities of the novel, with absolute respect to the author and his intention to present a story that opens and closes like a cycle, just like life itself.

A testimony of memory where, through the personal stories of the heroes, the entire modern history of Greece is highlighted in a style that, although it does not aim to teach, captures with a rare humour all that one deserves to fight for in this life.

A novel that has been a milestone for Kostas Tsakhtsis and one of the most beloved by the Greek public throughout time.

In fact, in the past it was made into a serial by Yannis Dalianidis, winning the TV audience, while it was also the material for many successful performances directed by Stamatis Fassoulis and Thanasis Papageorgiou.

But what is it, what attracts the viewer to “Third Wreath”? What makes it timeless and always relevant? It is the ruthless affirmation of life. This realism that resists and remains unaffected by any form of acting. It is the very characters of this drama. Characters of steel, people of another era who ache, suffer, cry bitterly, kneel, bleed but never give up hope, never lose faith in life and in what each tomorrow holds. They courageously stand up to every difficulty, laugh out loud, showing the way.

Through the story of two women, who pull the strings of the men’s fate, a picture of post-war society emerges with flashbacks to the Balkan era, Asia Minor, with direct references to the Metaxas era, the Occupation and with emphasis on the civil war and post-civil war landscape.

Hecave and Nina love each other, cool off, talk incessantly and are only silent in the face of what transcends them, always carrying the beautiful and strange burden of the homeland that gave birth to them, as “mythologized” by Elytis: “Beautiful and strange homeland / Like the one I never saw / Casting to catch fish catching feathered ones / Setting up on earth a boat garden in the waters / Crying kissing the soil alienated / Staying on the five roads manly […]”

A genuine Roman mosaic of emotions, rich in Greekness. The audience will appreciate the adventures of Hecave and Nina, but also the collective adventure of the Roman, projected in the background, as “The Third Wreath” will reveal where Hecave and Nina began, showing them what our life is today and why it is this and no other…

Credits:

Directed by Konstantinos Markoulakis
Adaptation: Konstantinos Markoulakis, Nikos Manousakis
Sets: Parris Mexis
Music: Minos Matsas
Lighting: Alekos Yannaros
Costumes: Claire Bracewell
Motion: Kiki Baka
Assistant Director: Christina Matthaiou
Photos: Elina Younani
Production: Theatrikes Skines

Stars

Kostas Andalopoulos, Irini Valatsou, Dani Giannakopoulou, Danae Epithymiadi, Maria Kavogianni, Dimitris Karaviotis, Syremo Kecke, Maria Kitsou, Tasos Lekkas, Ornella Louti, George Makris, Dimitris Mandrinos, Stathis Mantzoros, Kalliroi Miriangou, George Nousis, Eleftheria Pagalou, Alexandra Pantelaki, Elisa Skolidi, Menela Hazarakis, George Psychogios