Tempi / “Twenty-8”: A theatrical documentary about crime

February 28, 2023. A head-on collision between two trains that claimed the lives of 57 other people and bodily and mentally injured dozens extra. A landmark tournament within the nation’s historical past. For lots of, time stopped at 11:21 p.m. that night time of February 28 and for others he continues with the aim of serving justice. In Genovefas Ktenidou’s documentary theater, soul testimonies from survivors and family of sufferers of the Tempe tragedy are published. Testimonies of fellow human beings are introduced on degree, opening a discussion with the viewer about particular person duty.

“My soul best caused me to do that paintings”

Fifteen months after the crime in Tempi, the documentary theatrical functionality “Twenty 8”, conceived and directed by way of Genovefas Ktenidou, is gifted all the way through this time in Thessaloniki, illuminating sides of the tragedy in the course of the testimonies of survivors and family of sufferers. Households who misplaced their family members within the educate twist of fate along with passengers of the deadly educate IC62 who survived the twist of fate shared what came about and the way they really feel so as to have their testimonies incorporated on this challenge which, except its creative measurement, additionally leaves a powerful social footprint.

“My soul best driven me” tells AVGI the writer of the paintings G. Ktenidou about how he made up our minds to present a theatrical shape to the crime in Tempi. “In the summertime of 2023 once I began it, I had the sensation that the arena had forgotten about Tempi and I may now not settle for that, I thought to be it unacceptable. I may now not settle for that this topic would cross like this, as a random tournament. I sought after to speak artistically about it too” he stocks with us in regards to the thought of ​​the display, which belongs to the class of documentary theater and combines 100% true testimonies, whilst a minimum proportion of the paintings is fiction, within the phase in regards to the set-up and the nature names.

“I felt family and survivors my circle of relatives”

At the degree of the Amalia Theater one of the vital testimonies of survivors and family of the sufferers amassed are introduced and on the similar time the play makes an attempt to the touch and make the target audience take into accounts the problem of collective and particular person duty. For the selection of the fabric, there was once touch with the Affiliation of Family of Sufferers and with survivors, with whom the cooperation was once additionally shut all the way through the rehearsals. In particular, testimonies got by way of Maria Karystianou, Smaro Oikou, Kanella Andreadou, Christos Konstantinidis, Evangelos Vlachos, Elina Nasoufidou, Alexandra Tsakiri, Dimitrios Kostarelos, Konstantinos Topouzidis, Alexandros Iordanidis. “I felt like they have been all my circle of relatives, I recognize them with out prohibit” says G. Ktenidou and emphasizes that “this challenge merely needed to be finished, as a result of we artists even have a responsibility to discuss such social problems”.

Was once there any hesitation, as this can be a contemporary incident? G. Ktenidou is apparent that within the tournament of February 28, she may now not simply stay a spectator, as from the start it touched her and driven her to paintings artistically. “I could not prevent, I used to be over excited by way of the development itself,” he says. And he stands within the perspective of part of society that faces such tragic occasions with denial: “What does it imply “I will’t pay attention destructive information as a result of I can be unhappy”? Do you need to sleep in some other global? That is the arena you reside in. Open your ears and your eyes, see what he’s like and the way you’ll exchange him, if you’ll do anything else” he continues. In the end, as he issues out, consciousness continuously comes thru deep wisdom and empathy.

Efficiency ID

Textual content-Route: Genovefa Ktenidou

Carried out by way of: Elvira Kalini, Smaragda Karasavvidou, Nikos Korexianos, Genovefa Ktenidou, Yiannis Konstantinidis, Nikos Palpanis, Pavlos Pavlidis, Vaso Sapundzoglou, Christina Sarri, Nikos Semakoulas, Sotiris Charisopoulos

Assistant director: Nikos Semakula

Track: En Dynami, Kyriakos Karagiannis (No NAME band)

Scenography: Christina Nikolaidou

Dress design: Vasiliki Koutlis, Eva Sideri

Images: Konstantinos Mouratidis, Xenia Tserepi, Thanos Toliopoulos

Projector/Trailer Subject matter: Xenia Cerepi

Make-up-Hair Voula Khoursidou

Poster design: Konstantinos Mouratidis

Poster structure: Kyriakos Karagiannis (No NAME band)

Analysis: Athanasios Athanatos

Manufacturing supervisor: Anna Manian

Manufacturing: Signal Productions

Length: 105 mins

Subsequent displays: Wednesday 22, 29 and Thursday 23, 30 Might, at 9 p.m.

Amalia Theatre, Amalias 71, Evzonon, Thessaloniki