Text and direction
PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
Cast:
ALEXANDRA CHATZOPOULOU-SAIAS
NATASSA DALIAKA
PANAGIOTIS MANOUILIDIS
PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
Set design and costumes
ELENI STROULIA
Music and sound space
PANAGIOTIS MANOUILIDIS
Lightning
ELIZA ALEXANDROPOULOU
Video
CHARIS PECHLIVANIDIS
ELENI STROULIA
Research team in the city:
ELENI STROULIA
ELLI NALMPANTI
MAIRA KONSTANTINIDOU
LOUIZA - MARIA CHARALAMPOUS
Historical advisor and coordination of educational workshops
TATIANA LIANI
Dramaturgical consultancy
MARTIN VALDÉS - STAUBER
assistant director
NATASSA DALIAKA
Lighting assistant
ELLI NALMPANTI
TooFarEast Production Coordination
NIKOS MAVRAKIS
NTNG production coordination
MARIA LAZARIDOU
In March 1943, the first train to Auschwitz from Thessaloniki left. In August of that year, 50,000 Jews were deported there, most of whom never returned. 96% of the city's Jewish community was exterminated in Nazi concentration camps. The houses and properties they left behind ended up in the hands of property custody agents, the furniture and utensils ended up in Christian houses and shops, the marble slabs from the old cemetery were relocated to the most unexpected places in the city...The Jewish community largest in the Balkans, disappeared from the map while a new social and economic elite emerged.
Who collaborated with the violence and who helped the resistance? What were the mechanisms to forget what happened and what is the role of a theater? Why are we interested in this story of the past now and how does it relate to our own future? In an attempt to bring us closer to that bygone era, the artistic team on stage speaks with guests from the past, present and future of the city of Thessaloniki and shows us the results of an investigation to compose a new historical and social mural of this “city of ghosts”
Sobre la compañía
Documentary theater piece based on the life of the Jews in Thessaloniki, a performative conference on the dark and forgotten stories that have left a visible mark. Through an archeology of the present, 96% investigates that trace, not only through academic study, archival material and testimonies, but also through in-person research in the streets of the city, closed stores, old buildings and new ones, including at the National Theater of Northern Greece, where this performance premiered.
96% is part of the European theatrical and pedagogical project Landscapes of Devastation, developed simultaneously in Thessaloniki, Madrid and Berlin. A collaboration between the National Theater of Northern Greece, Schaubühne and LaJoven with the support of the Memory, Responsibility and Future Foundation (EVZ) and co-produced by the company TooFarEast.
Within the framework of the program, historical workshops have been carried out in educational centers with more than 300 adolescents.