THE LANGUAGE OF DECENTRALIZATION
A performance about loss, complicity and forgiveness, inspired by the rhapsody Ω of the Iliad, and travels to the periphery and islands of the barren line.
The National Theatre presents the performance Station Ω: a new Greek play by Giorgos Christodoulou, directed by Dimitris Tsikouras (Tsik), an honors graduate of the Directing Department of the National Theatre’s Drama School for the last academic year. Focusing on social reflection on violence, silence, diversity, complicity and forgiveness, this – flexible scale – production is part of the networking activities of the First Stage of the country, which attempts – in collaboration with the Municipalities, Municipalities and other local bodies – to transport artistic creation beyond the narrow boundaries of the urban center, to cities in the periphery and to remote islands, and to cultivate the Language of Decentralization. The performance will complete its run in the spring of 2026, at the Side Stage of the Ziller Building.
The performance draws inspiration from the rhapsody Ω of the Iliad, with Priam kneeling before Achilles, begging for the body of Hector. From this ancient core, a contemporary narrative is born that focuses on collective complicity, loss, the need for catharsis – but also the crucial act of forgiveness.
In a Greek village, a young man – different in the eyes of the local community – disappears. His father is confronted with loss, unimaginable silence, homophobic violence hidden behind “normality”, and ultimately with himself. He stands against the one who deprived him of his child, demanding the truth, demanding a missing body. Five characters meet on stage and, starting from a crime, open a common place of narration, questions and confrontations. Through myths, allegories and various expressive means, they attempt to penetrate the core of the human condition and search for what true forgiveness can mean.
