KET’s performance “On a Saturday”, dedicated to the history of the Greek Jewish communities, will be presented in September 2023 at the Cartoucherie, the iconic space of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Soleil in the east of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 25 March 1944, members of the Waffen-SS, regular German soldiers of the 1st Edelweiss Mountain Division and Greek gendarmes forcibly deported the Jews of Ioannina to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On the same days (23, 24, 25 March), Greek Jews were deported from Athens, Chalkida, Kastoria, Arta, Preveza, Larissa, Trikala and Volos. Few will return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The performance \u201cOn a Saturday\u201d tells their history and their displacement through testimonies, poems, narratives and songs: romaniote, sephardi, epirus and \u201ccamp songs\u201d \u2013 folk melodies of which the exiles changed the words in order to be able to communicate and convey their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The starting point of the show is the short story by Dimitris Hatzis <\/em>\u201cSambethai Kampilis\u201d <\/em>from the collection of short stories \u201cThe end of our small town\u201d. The author returns to Ioannina of his childhood, describing the local Jewish community with its long history as well as the close relationship and conflict of two important personalities of the community, the conservative head of the community Sambethai Kampilis and the poet and communist Joseph Eliya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second part, based on survivors\u2019 testimonies, recounts the invasion of Wehrmacht and the Greek police inside the Castle, the Jewish neighborhood of the city, on March 25, 1944 \u2013 a Saturday \u2013 and traces the deportation of the community from Ioannina to Auschwitz, focusing on a little-known but pivotal event: The Sonderkommando uprising on a Saturday, October 7, 1944, in which Greek Jews played a leading role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n French director Ir\u00e8ne Bonnaud is the dramaturg, director and author (of the second part of the play). Fotini Banou narrates the story, moving from talking to singning, while giving voice to the 11 small statues created for the performance by Clio Makri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RESERVATIONS: Cie 813 \u2013 07 57 82 87 19 & info@cie-813.com (individual reservations) \/ 01 43 74 88 50 (group reservations) \/ www.theatreonline.com\/Spectacle\/C-etait-un-samedi\/81077<\/a> & www.billetreduc.com\/319272\/evt.htm<\/a> (online reservations)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n *The performance is in greek with french subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Production: TV Control Center | Co-Production: Sc\u00e8ne Nationale Ch\u00e2teauvallon \u2013 Libert\u00e9 (Toulon, France) and Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Nice (France). | Organisation of the french tour: SENS INTERDITS, Festival international de th\u00e9\u00e2tre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The performance was presented in France on: 24, 25, 26 & 27 June 2021 at the theatre La Commune CDN Aubervilliers (Paris \/ premiere of the play), on 10 July 2021 at Ch\u00e2teauvallon \/ Le Libert\u00e9 (Toulon), 13 & 14 July 2021 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Nice (Nice), 15, 18, 19, 21 & 22 October 2021 at the SENS INTERDITS festival (Lyon) and 15, 16 & 17 November 2021 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des 13 Vents (Montpellier). In Greece, it was presented at TV Control Center (Athens) in 2022 & 2023 and at the Ioannina Municipal Theatre on 8 & 9 June 2022. On 25 January 2023 it was presented at the Thessalian Theatre, in the framework of the events for the International Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The performance is dedicated to the memory of Esther-Stella Cohen, one of the last survivors of the genocide in Ioannina, who is not with us anymore. She welcomed us to her home in the autumn of 2019 for a long narrative and we owe her, among many other things, the title of the performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We would like to thank a lot for their support during the research and the preparation of the performance: Kaiti Hatzi, Angelina Hatzi, Savvas Michail Matsas, Katerina Matsa, Allegra Matsa, Diamanto Matsa, John Kalef Ezra, Mathilde Eskinatzi, Leonardos Batis, Sakis Negrin, Panos Vadaloukas, Adi Liraz, Saranna Biel-Cohen, Mimis Cohen, Yiannis Alexakis, Popi Banou, Elias Poulos, and Eleni Pangratiou-Alexaki, who recently passed away. We would also like to thank the Jewish Museum of Greece and the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The text of the performance is published in Greek and French by Koukkida Publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excerpts from reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 \u201cAnd all this in a monologue: the sensational Fotini Banou, among eleven small, expressive sculptures by Clio Makri (\u2026), evokes shivers of emotion. In a performance punctuated by songs that she sings with a crystal clear voice, a cappella \u2013 Romaniote, Sephardic, Epirus, rebetiko which multiply the emotion. And that \u201che says\u201d, which sounds \u201cdry\u201d, \u201cdistanced\u201d, before each testimony, works antithetically: it tears your heart out. As for the finale, with its two or three sentences by Esther (Stella) Cohen, a Jewish woman from Ioannina who survived Auschwitz, it\u2019s a punch to the face that, for me at least, made me burst into tears. This \u201clittle\u201d performance is an Event. You MUST see it! I hope it will be repeated and that it will travel. (\u2026) I can only express my regards for the emotion it gave me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Yiorgos Sariyiannis, \u201cThe Fourth Bell\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 \u201cAmong the twenty or so sculptures that occupy the empty scene, Fotini Banou stands out as a giant. She also seems particularly alive and receptive. (\u2026) The songs performed by the Greek actress delicately evoke the tragedy of the past in order to place the disappeared among the living. (\u2026) Like a storyteller, obsessed with the characters to the point of regularly identifying with them, Fotini Banou tells the story (\u2026) The way she stands there, completely present, at the crossroads of many eras and various discourses, makes us understand that the terrible Sabbath has not exactly passed: something of it remains in today\u2019s Greece, which Ir\u00e8ne Bonnaud describes as \u2018the epicentre of European tragedies\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Ana\u00efs Heluin, \u201cOn a Saturday, a tragic day in Epirus\u201d, sceneweb.fr)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 \u201c\u2026an effortless performance, inhabited by ghosts, intense and gentle at the same time, where music and poetry are balsam for the soul!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Jean-Pierre Thibaudat, \u201cWhat is left of the Jews of Ioannina, the small and the large city of Epirus\u201d, Balagan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KET’s performance “On a Saturday”, dedicated to the history of the Greek Jewish communities, will be presented in September 2023 at the Cartoucherie, the iconic space of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Soleil in the east of Paris. 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