The theatrical company \u201cSyn Ena \u2013 Michalis Toumpouros,\u201d as part of its tribute to contemporary Greek playwrights, already had a triumphant premiere on Saturday, November 8, for its first autumn\u2013winter production of the 2025\u201326 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ceremony\u201d is Pavlos Matesis\u2019s first play.<\/p>\n
A sparkling dark comedy, it deals with the tragicomic situations that unfold during a funeral, where propriety, nouveau-riche attitudes, and the hypocrisy of relatives become the stage upon which social, political, and economic issues play out. The exaggerated characters \u2014 superficial and shallow \u2014 follow a standardized protocol of good manners, which, in Greek reality even today, conceals an obsession with appearances. These petty-bourgeois figures, suffocating within family and social relationships, use the funeral merely as a pretext, an occasion to flaunt their financial status.<\/p>\n
Through this play, Pavlos Matesis skillfully and sharply satirizes, in his own distinctive style, the behaviors of the newly rich, who appear fully aligned with the prevailing establishment. His work breathes a timeless quality, as even in our era class differences continue to serve the economically and politically powerful.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ceremony\u201d is a small masterpiece, rightly distinguished by the jury of the National Theatre Competition, which awarded it the National Theatre Prize in 1966, the year it was first presented.<\/p>\n
Directed by: Kostas Katsoulakis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2826,"template":"","tags":[],"location":[],"event_category":[],"thematic_areas":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2814","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"thematic_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic_areas?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.kalamata.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}