After the impressive audiences of “Nikhyan” and “Trud”, another new performance, an example of modern Greek dramaturgy, is presented on the stage of the Poreya Theater. “Garamond 12” by Maria Dreamy, which got its name from … the font, appeared at the Drama School of the Poreya Theater.

On the trigger shaft of the lie was written “Garamond 12”. “The high art of lying” – this is how Vangelis Chatsigiannidis formulated it at the beginning of the second year of the school of theatrical writing. The basis of the work is personification. Agoraphobic writer Mark Hunter lived cooped up in his home with his mother for decades. As his fame grows and the success of his books, he is forced to interact with the public, journalists and publishers. He is desperately looking for someone to impersonate him in all these circumstances, an avatar for the outside world. The arrival of this man, Jake, whose name I deliberately did not name, turns Mark’s life upside down and reveals a deep trauma that goes back to his childhood. The four characters in the story interact around the Hunter’s closed home, haunted by memories with a literary tinge. Mark Hunter, who lives in captivity in a love nest built for him by his overbearing mother, realizes that he became a writer because of his suffering. His contact with Jake is a catalyst, a spark that ignites half-extinguished embers. Mark’s soul is filled with a huge question mark. Can literature replace real life? What room for escape does such a long deprivation of simple everyday things leave? “To see the sun, to be blown by the wind, to smell the nature. Everything that ordinary people do.” How difficult is it to make Mark Hunter an ordinary person? I tried to answer all this in my work” says Mrs. Dreamy “K”..

“As with Emily Louise for Labor, so now the Porea Theater has turned to a young director, Russian Sergey Okunev, a graduate of the famous GITIS school, who is signing his first stage direction in Greece,” emphasizes the artistic director of the March Theater Dimitris Tarlow.

“The theater is an art form that includes live communication. After a long period when the situation was difficult due to the pandemic, it is logical that now people should turn to the theater,” says Mr. Tarlow. “It’s good that a very young audience comes to the theater and gets to know him through new approaches. We want each of our performances to be a new offering,” he adds.

Starring Maria Zorba, Alexandros Mavropoulos, Haris Tzortsakis and Celia Bisioti. Eleni Kuciupa participated in dramaturgy, scenery and costumes were designed by Alegia Papageorgiou, music and sound design by Panu, choreography by Katerina Foti, lighting by Nausica Christodoulakou.