Prometheus Prisoner(Assistant Director to Michael Marmarinos)(2018)

Prometheus Prisoner by Michael Marmarinos

A long-awaited premiere for December 4, 2017

The Tree Theater presents Aeschylus’s tragedy “Prometheus Prisoner I”, translated by George Blanas and directed by Michael Marmarinos, with Katerina Loura on stage. The plot: Titan Prometheus stood by God Zeus when Saturn decided to destroy the gods. And Zeus won. Titan Prometheus stood by the side of man when Zeus decided to destroy the human race. And man lived.

The plot: His charitable and altruistic action enraged Zeus, who decides to punish him. Today, Prometheus is chained to a rock in the middle of nowhere condemned to eternal lack of movement. Oceanides, virgin daughters of the Ocean, decide to stand by his side. The tortures of the philanthropist Titan will move them and make them decide to sacrifice the prospect of a beautiful life and remain with him in the name of moral, justice. They witness his dream of a true democracy.

Director’s Note: There are some Heroes who carry their myth as an inevitable consequence in the Ages. Like Sisyphus a stone, Atlas the world we walk in, or Prometheus his punishment. It is up to us today to realize how an almost immobile body of an actress, in the light of our time, is capable of reminding us of the mythical stillness of the One who, unceasingly nailed to a rock, can still motivate or even shed light on the conscience of what we call the human race.