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“The taming of the Bugbear”
by Alekos Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos

Is it possible for two absolutely different worlds to converge and coexist? Is it possible for someone, who was deceived to forgive the deceiver? Especially if, because of the exact fraud, the “deceived” along with his three sons, were taken care of, have eaten freshly made, homemade food and the “deceiver” has surrounded them with a lot of love and care?
Is it possible for the little, winged, trickster God to solve any ideological differences and put order in chaos?

These are some of the questions that ETHAL, Point To Contemporary Theater and Anyhow Theatre Ensemble are going to try to answer with this collaboration in Alecos Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos play “The taming of the Bugbear”.

A political comedy, masked as a joyful scenic play, which was staged for the first time by the troupe of Katerina Andreades- Vasilis Logothetidis under the title “An unfortunate lady”, then by the troupe of Lambros Constantaras – Christina Sylva and later on became a cinematic success of Lambros Constantaras.

Once again, ETHAL partners up with two other theatrical teams, extending the cooperation among three theatrical organizations in a summer production for the first time, continuing the cooperation with newer groups, something that inaugurated with the previous production.

Fanouris Petorcheilos, a Director of Marine Academy, a widower with three sons, struggles to coordinate the chaos that rules his home. The life of this incorruptible bugbear will turn upside down when the feminine presence will appear, the young housekeeper Mrs. Anna. Her actions will change for better the life of the four men, but in reality, Anna approached the mariner to ask for a favor on behalf of her younger brother, who is about to be expelled from the Academy because of some sort of misdemeanor.
When the truth surfaces, things are getting complicated in a skein of secrets, lies, worries, love, songs and dancing. What will happen when the skein unfolds?

Direction: Achilleas Grammatikopoulos
Set/Costumes Design: Yiorgos Yiannou
Music Composition/Curation: Giorgos Andreou
Lights Design: Kyriakos Siamptanis
Assistant Director: Michalis Kolokotronis

Actors:
Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Gregoris Georgiou, Giorgos Evagorou, Panagiotis Georgiou, Nayia Anastasiadou, Evangelia Onoufriou and Michalis Moustakas.

Suitable for the whole family

Premiere:
June 26th 2025, ETHAL Theatre, 20:30

Main Sponsor: Deputy Ministry of Culture
Permanent Sponsor: Limassol Municipality
Sponsors: Sunfresh Bakeries
Communication Sponsors: Politis Newspaper and Politis Radio 107,6 & 97,6
Supporters: Rik, Kanali 6, Black Lemon

Rehearsals have already begun for our summer production and once again ETHAL partners up with two other theatrical teams, Point To Contemporary Theater on one hand and Anyhow Theatre Ensemble on the other, extending the cooperation among three theatrical organizations for the first time in a summer production, continuing the cooperation with newer groups, something that inaugurated with the previous production. The production will tour to Municipalities and Communities around the island and the exact schedule will be announced in a later time.

Fanouris Petorcheilos, a Director of Marine Academy, a widower with three sons, struggles to coordinate the chaos that rules his home. The life of this incorruptible bugbear will turn upside down when the feminine presence will appear, the young housekeeper Mrs. Anna. Her actions will change for better the life of the four men, but in reality, Anna approached the mariner to ask for a favor on behalf of her younger brother, who is about to be expelled from the Academy because of some sort of misdemeanor. When the truth surfaces, things are getting complicated in a skein of secrets, lies, worries, love, songs and dancing. What will happen when the skein unfolds?

Direction: Achilleas Grammatikopoulos
Set/Costumes Design: Yiorgos Yiannou
Music Composition/Curation: Giorgos Andreou
Lights Design: Kyriakos Siamptanis
Assistant Director: Michalis Kolokotronis

Actors: Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Nayia Anastasiadou, Gregoris Georgiou, Panagiotis Georgiou, Giorgos Evagorou, Evangelia Onoufriou and Michalis Moustakas.

A free workshop for professional actors with international artist
Carlos García Estévez

ETHAL is organizing a free of charge workshop on Commedia dell’ arte, exclusively
for professional actors, with the international actor, stage director, theatre researcher
and specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’ arte and Mask Performance, Carlos
García Estévez.

The workshop will be held on Sunday 18 th May 2025, from 13:00-17:00 at ETHAL
Theatre in Limassol. The participation is free of charge and the participants should
wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Registration is required at 25877827. Maximum
number of participants 15 persons, a priority order will be followed.
Attached a short bio of the artist.

Carlos García Estévez is an international artist born in Spain. He is Artistic Director
of Manifesto Poetico, an actor, stage director, theatre researcher, pedagogue and
specialist in Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte and mask performance.
Manifesto Poetico comes from Carlos’ 25 years of research and productions done
internationally. He has also performed and directed in over 20 different countries and
over 45 different Universities. Over his career he has developed his research into
multi-style mis-en-scene, inter- disciplinary productions and devised theatre that is
contemporary. The success of his work and the enthusiastic response from the
audience comes from a reinvention of traditional- popular theatre. As he learned from
Dario Fo, Carlos keeps the spirit of popular theatre in order to create new
contemporary theatrical languages that speak to audiences today.
He directs shows, workshops, TransPoetico Productions and research projects in
Europe, North, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Recent creations
directed by Carlos include Nama Kamu Atas Perahu (Kuala Lumpur, 2013), Tito’s
Dream (USA, 2014), Bogota In Action (Bogota, 2015), New York Lands (New York,
2016), Klassiek van de Toekomst (Haarlem, NL, 2017), Hann: Voices of a Bay
(Dakar, Senegal 2018), Pulse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2018), The Gate of Hope
(Guadalajara, Mexico 2019), BELFAST 1919 (Belfast, NI 2019), In The Name Of
Humanity (Wiikwemkoong, Canada 2021) and If I Listened… (Wiikwemkoong,
Canada 2022).

Other artists with whom he worked include Donato Sartori, Yoshi Oida, Dario Fo,
Simon McBurney, Peter Sellars, Marcello Magni, Gennadi Bogdanov, Pierre Byland,
Eric de Bont, Kevin Crawford and Kaya Anderson (Roy Hart – Voice technique),
Mario Gonzáles (Theatre de Soleil), José Luís Gómez (Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid),
Tapa Sudana (Tribuana master and a former actor of Peter Brook’s company) and
Miquel A. Barceló.

He participates as a movement director for opera at DNO (Dutch National Opera
Academy) and Hollands Diep Muziektheater.

He trained with Jacques Lecoq for three years, both at his École Internationale de
Théâtre and at L.E.M. (Laboratoire d’Etude de Mouvement). He is regularly hosted
as a teacher at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris in the Laboratory for the Study of
Movement (L.E.M.) where he is an associate artist and co-contributor to the unique
research undertaken there.

Carlos directs, performs and teaches in English, French, Italian and Spanish.