Part of: FUTURE N.O.W. 2023
Performance, Theater

PERSEIDS or HOW TO PARTY HARD

Βy Zoe Sigalou and Marina Siotou

Dates

Tickets

5 — 10 €

Age guidance

16+

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday - Sunday
Time
22:00
Venue
Exhibition Hall -1

Tickets

Type
Price
Full price
10 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people
8 €
Groups 10+ people
7 €
Neighborhood residents
7 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities
5 €
Companions
7 €

Onassis Stegi Friends and general presale: 08 MAR 2023, 17:00

End of presale: 09 APR 2023, 21:30

Information

Combined tickets for 2 shows (On the same day)

“Call Me Sugar” & “Earthquake”
Full price: 17 €
Friend: 14 €

“Earthquake” & “Perseids or How to Party Hard”
Full price: 17 €
Friend: 14 €

Combined tickets for 3 shows (On the same day)

“Call Me Sugar” & “Earthquake” & “Perseids or How to Party Hard”
Full price: 23 €
Friend: 18 €

Duration

1 hour

English surtitles

Performances with English surtitles in March: οn Saturday 25, Sunday 26, Thursday 30 and Friday 31 March 2023.

Performances with English surtitles in April: on Saturday 1, Sunday 2, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 April 2023.

Introduction

A night in the toilets of “Perseids” club, five femininities share drunken confessions, cursing, swearing, loving, and hugging in a girlhood happening of emancipated leisure. Α Chorus in the “here and now.”

Performance Photos

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Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou
“Perseids or how to party hard” by Zoe Sigalou and Marina Siotou
The basement stage of the Onassis Stegi transforms into the “Perseids” club: a place full of strobe lights, disco balls, pink neon lights, electronic music, and 80s love songs. Five femininities meet in a chance encounter (or not) in the ladies’ room. They talk about their first time; their Barbie dolls; the one-night stands. They text nude pics and create sexting inspired anthems. A night full of drunken confessions, swearing, loving, hugging, and wild dancing. A universe filled with glitter, TikTok tutorials, dating apps, and pop culture references that oscillate between Gen Z and the Millennials.

Is there any room for love in the generation of dissociation and tinder dates? How can you revolt in a world that is constantly fighting against you and your whole identity? Five girls crave to fall in love, to express themselves, and to live their dream, even though they were born and raised in a world where love didn’t come as they expected. Raising their voice against what defined them to this day, they unite in one entity, one solid body. A “dance" of the “here-and-now,” where the ladies’ room transforms into a space of release and liberation. A sharp, delightful, moving manifesto.

Pinelopi Gerasimou

“Perseids or how to party hard” by Zoe Sigalou and Marina Siotou

About “Perseids or How to party hard”
  • This work was created as part of the Goethe-Institut New Stages Southeast workshop for young theater authors, supported and moderated by Prodromos Tsinikoris and Jens Hillje.
  • The production shines a light on small moments of liberation that burst forth inside a women’s toilet. It delineates a possible point of departure for a revolution in the face of everything that defines us, limits us, and makes us –as femininities– feel small and weak in a world that wasn’t built for us.
  • By spotlighting personal confessions and stories, the work seeks to empower the expression of both personal freedom and self-ownership by femininities who came of age in the time of social media, Barbie, and the Kardashians.

Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

Credits

Concept-Script-Direction
Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou
Sets and Costumes
Eleni Stroulia
Movement Instructor
Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Original Music
Marilena Orfanou
Lighting Design
Panayotis Lambis
Sets and Costumes Assistant
Tzanos Mazis
Custom-made Costumes
Dimitrios Paraskevopoulos
Assistant Director
Roxanne Krimizi
2nd Assistant Director
Irini Bazani
Cast
Danae Delaporta, Marianna Bozantzoglou, Katerina Rousiaki, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou
Surprise Guest Appearance (video)
Eleni Karagiorgi
Tik Tok Appearance
Irini Bazani, Roxanne Krimizi
Dom69
Roxanne Krimizi
Dramaturgy Consultant
Michalis Pitidis
Video-Filming
Nikos Kolioukos, Alexandra Riba
Sound Design Video
Pelagia Chatzinikita
Surtitles’ translation in English
Memi Katsoni
Simultaneous Surtitling
Yannis Papadakis
Production Management / Line Production
LEFOU PRODUCTIONS (Vasia Attarian/Serafeim Radis)
Line Production Associate
Angelika Stavropoulou
Commissioned & produced
Onassis Stegi