Marina Siotou
Actress I Director I Playwright
Perseids or How to Party Hard
Future Now Festival 2023 - Onassis Foundation
The floor -1 of Onassis Foundation transforms into the club Perseids. Photorhythms, disco balls, neon pink lights, electronic music and 80s love songs. Five femininities meet -accidentally and not- in the ladies room. They talk about their first time. Barbies. One night stands. They send nudes and eat burgers with fries and ketchup.
A night full of drunk confessions, curses, sexting, hugs and wild dancing. A universe full of glitter, tik tok tutorials, dating apps and pop culture references that juggle between Gen Z and Millennials.
Is there room for love in the generation of dissociation and tinder?
How can you rebel in a world that is constantly fighting you and your identity?
Five femininities want to fall in love, express themselves and dream, while they were born and raised in a world where love didn't come as they expected. Revolting against what defined them so far, they become an entity, a solid body. A modern "Chorus" of "here and now", where the lady's room is transformed into a space of trust, unity and liberation.
A sharp, hilarious, moving manifesto.
A utopian moment of freedom.
“Go out to the next open bar, sit next to the person that drinks a glass of scotch with one ice cube only and smells like Davidoff cool water, talk to him/her/it about your long lost love and how much you wanted to travel the world with him but now you can’t and touch his shoulder for him to get the signal to take you out of there and go to his place or your place or to any dark alley to make love loud enough to cover his voice, loud enough to cover your thoughts, loud enough to stop your heart.”
The theater text "Perseid or How to Party Hard" was conducted through Thessaloniki Goethe Institut's "New Stages Southeast Program" under the supervision of Jens Jillje and Prodromos Tsinikoris.
8 young playwriters where chosen through an open call in search of the new narratives in theater during and after the pandemic.
Meta-Amour (2020)
A conteporary dance performance inspired by Café Müller of Pina Baus and Triptyh of Peeping Tom.
Using the pattern of repetition our goal was to exlpore the stages of a polyamorous relationship. From its blossom to its decay.
Co-creators and Performers: Michalis Koutskoudis, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou.
The performace was staged at Arhi Theater, Athens in January 2020.
Yerma (2019)
A narrative performance of the titular play by Federico García Lorca. Three young performers dive into the female gendered psychosynthesis; each giving their unique perspective on love, loss and despair. To help us embody all the rest of the characters we used puppetry to sift from Victor to Maria, to Juan and back to Yerma again.
Creators: Marina Siotou & Zoe Sigalou
Performers: Sotiria Papantidou, Zoe Sigalou, Marina Siotou
The play abaptation was staged at Arhi Theater, Athens in February 2019.