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POLYPLANITY PRODUCTIONS
Theater Productions

Oxygen

Polyplanity Productions-Oxygen
DIRECTED BY: George Koutlis
Onassis Stegi-Main Stage
21/11/2024 - 12/01/2025
Polyplanity Productions-Oxygen

What makes you breathe? What deprives you of air? What do you believe in? Where do you swear by?

“Oxygen” by Ivan Vyrypaev, a theatrical manifesto for the 00s, is presented as an antidote to the “psychopolitical suffocation” of Generation Z.

A troupe of 25 individuals, all members of this generation, participating in a spiritual rave experience.

Director's note

A rave party, a bacchanalian non-stop beat, a generational manifesto, beings vibrating to the DJ’s music, searching for a lost religiosity, giving the impression that if they stop dancing, they will stop breathing.

They are looking for what oxygen is, what makes us breathe, and what deprives us of air. They try to talk to the audience alongside music, which brings the body into a trance.

Two DJs at the decks, 11 actors, and a 12-member chorus of dancers. All of them are members of Generation Z.

They dance non-stop, they get drunk, they fall in love, and some of them grab the microphones and talk.

Based on Ivan Vyrypaev's play, “Oxygen,” with texts devised by the actors, we will tell the story of Sasha and Sasha, who open their souls―all the dirt, cruelty, and beauty of human nature―trying to answer a primordial, unanswerable question: “What is your oxygen?”

-George Koutlis

CONTRIBUTORS
Direction, Translation & Adaptation: George Koutlis

Adaptation & Dramaturgy: Vasilis Magouliotis

Choreography: Alexandros Stavropoulos

Movement: Alkistis Polychroni

Music & DJs on stage: Reign of Time

Music & Sound Design: Jeph Vanger

Set Design: Constantine Skourletis

Video Design: Uncharted Limbo Collective

Costumes Design: Eva Goulakou & Dimos Klimenof

Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou

Assistant to the Director and Artistic Collaborator: Eleni Koutsioumpa

Assistant to the Costume Designers: Alexandra - Anastasia Ftouli

Assistant to the Lighting Designer: Marietta Pavlaki
2nd Assistant to the Director: Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis

2nd Assistant to the Lighting Designer: Pavlina Papadaki

Performers (alphabetically): Gavriela Antonopoulou, Electra Barouta, Ioannis Bastas, Nikolas Chatzivasiliadis, Chara Giota, Nikos Gonidis, Marios Hadjiantoni, Eleftheria Iliopoulou, Panos Kladis, Despina Lagoudaki, Marianna Mathia, Alexandros Nouskas Varelas, Evini Pantelaki, Kostas Phoenix, Antonia Pitoulidou, Gal A. Robissa, Katerina Samara, Natalia Swift, Thodoris Theodorakopoulos, Giannis Tomazos, Anastasia Valsamaki, Noemi Vasileiadou, Jason Vrochidis

Photos: Panos Kefalos

Production Coordinator: Nikos Charalampidis

Executive Production & Production Management: POLYPLANITY Productions/ Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki

Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi

Surtitles’ translation in English: Memi Katsoni

Simultaneous Surtitling: Yannis Papadakis
Supported by the Onassis Stegi “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program