Additional performances on Wednesday 26 and
on Friday 28 May at 6:00 p.m.
The performances on 27 May will be surtitled in greek and
on 28 May will be surtitled in english and turkish
“I never knew you to have a hope or a dream or say a half-wise thing. You worked for fifty-eight years, nine hours a day, in a garden so steep a horse wouldn’t climb it! […]
You spent your life sitting on brambles and wouldn’t move in case someone took your seat!”
Successful Irish writer Charlie Tynan returns to his birthplace for the funeral of his adoptive father. While sorting out things at home, he reminisces about the father-figure, the gardener Da (short for Daddy), and has with him a conversation they never got to have while they were both alive. The play is a return to the memories of childhood and adolescence, and to the often thorny relationship between father and son. Set at the crossroads of two worlds, memory and the present time, the comic gives way to the dramatic, shedding light on the simple and deeply humane things in life.
Leonard’s tender gaze has been brought to stage by director Maria Mannaridou-Karsera in collaboration with distinguished actor Costas Vichas as Da and a vibrant ensemble of actors and contributors. The play is a revival of THOC’s 1996 stage production. Da is scheduled to travel “Away” in a tour of the island’s municipalities and communities. Due to the new situation, it has been adapted for presentation at THOC’s New Stage.
Translation: Errikos Belies
Direction: Maria Mannaridou-Karsera
Dramaturgical editing: Maria Mannaridou-Karsera – Fotis Fotiou
Set-Costume design: Thelma Kasoulidou
Music: Antonis Antoniou
Assistand to the director: Fotis Fotiou
Cast
Fotis Apostolides, Kostas Vihas, Nektarios Theodorou, Vasilis Pafitis, Konstantinos Tsitsios, Valanto Charalambous, Elena Christofi, Christina Christofia
Performances
Nicosia: Theatre THOC, New Stage
Wednesday 26 May 2021
6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.
Thursday 27 May 2021
8:30 p.m. (greek surtitles)
Friday 28 May 2021
6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. (english & turkish surtitles)
Saturday 29 May 2021
8:30 p.m.
Information/Tickets
THOC Box Office, tel. 77772717, www.thoc.org.cy
Ticket Prices
€12 / €6 (unemployed persons, pensioners with relevant documentation, large-families, persons under 25 years of age providing their national identification card)
During the winter period 2021-2022 the production will perform in
municipalities and communities of the country
Information at 22 86 43 30
*All health protocols will be in place, in accordance with the relevant decrees of the Ministry of Health
Media Sponsors
ΘΟΚ/THOC
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