GREEK

THE RED NOTEBOOKS
Neos Kosmos Theatre February 2020
DIRECTION | ORIGINAL TEXT : Eleana Georgouli

THE RED NOTEBOOKS is a theatre performance of a new original play I created based on the true story of my grandmother, Vasso Strofilla, resistance fighter during the German Occupation and ELAS Member. The play brings to life the Odyssey of young Vasso: her recruitment in the anti-fascistic struggle during the 2ndWorld War, her meeting with the love of her life and ELAS partisan Yiannis, the murder of her sister, her journey to illegality and imprisonment until her release in 1953.

For the creation of THE RED NOTEBOOKSI conducted a research that took more than three years, based on the extended file my grandmother, Vasso Strofila, held. I drew upon a variety of sources: newspapers of the time, personal journals, state documents, photo albums and interview material from partisans of ELAS, woman prisoners of Averof Prisons,family members, following the methodology and the aesthetic code of documentary theater and theater of fact

CREDITS
original Text / direction: Eleana Georgouli
scenic composition consultant: Aleksandra Kazazou
assistant director: Maria Floratou
Lightning Design: Cristina Thanasoula
Set Design: George Trikaliotis
Costumes: Rania Riga / Margarita Dosoula
trailler: Alexis Zafeirakis

WITH:
Andreas Kontopoulos, Nancy Boukli, Yannis Filias, Eleana Georgouli