Art & Culture

The Sound of the Gun (O Ichos tou Oplou): Loula Anagnostaki at Theatro Kydonia

Loula Anagnostaki's 1987 classic of post-junta Athens, staged by Chania's Mnimi company. Seven nights, 11 to 20 Dec. From €8, in Greek.

Loula Anagnostaki is one of the most important Greek playwrights of the post-war years, and The Sound of the Gun, written in 1987 and brought to the stage by Karolos Koun's Theatro Technis, is her portrait of a society still carrying its ghosts. Athens, on the eve of the 1985 elections: a woman from the provinces arrives to vote at her husband's insistence and finds her son, a first-year student living with his free-spirited girlfriend, while his impulsive younger brother is caught up in a strange story with an illegal gun. That gun never goes off, yet it hangs over everyone, as the memories of the Occupation, the Resistance and the Civil War collide with a younger generation that cannot breathe. The Chania company Mnimi stages it at Theatro Kydonia on Ypsilanton Street, directed by Michalis Virvidakis with sound and music by Dimitris Iatropoulos, and the cast is Voula Antoniadou, Dimitris Kiosterakis, Kostas Kostidis, Amalia Kotsadam, Chrysoula Lingeridou and Alexandros Ntokakis. There are seven performances between Friday 11 and Sunday 20 December and the start time changes from night to night (19:30, 20:00 or 21:00), so check yours. Tickets are €18, €14 for students and €8 reduced, bookings also on 2821092395, and the play is performed in Greek.