Terzopoulos or Soupopulos! / * (1 star)

I don’t know the original play and probably I wont read it after seeing what I saw, neither I have seen his previews works, I start saying this so my point of view is understand by the occasional reader. But truly the show I saw yesterday left me sad, sad because, it is the fault of shows like this that so many people consider theatre something boring and unreachable. I’m referring to Mademoiselle Julie, August Strindberg’s classic play at the Attis Theatre directed by famous Theodoros Terzopoulos.



The first impression I had when I sat down in my chair in the theatre is the sense that I had just enter a church and that I had to behave, this felling grew bigger and bigger during one of the longest hours in my life, 4 actors with not a trace of fun in their eyes come dragging their feet in a very heavily fashion until they position their self in the 4 corners of the theatre where they will stay for the rest of the duration of the show, as a sense in the space this position has no dramatic interest it has no conflict. They will talk and talk and not once they will look at each other, they will scream and they will hurt your ears with voices that don’t have an ounce of pleasure. The only good moment of the show is when the young actress hides her self and shows only her beautiful legs, this is what give this performance one star. I didn’t understand a thing about what was happening on the stage, later after the show while I was running away from the theatre I learned that there was something to do with vampires, something that made me hate more what I had just seen.



At the end when the actors where taking a bow you could see in their faces that they believe that they where doing something very important, I’m truly sorry if you believe that this is not your job! Theatre is a game! And acting is also called playing!



This is the type of show where you can hear all the time the sound of people reaccommodating in the chairs instead of being on the edge of your chair.



Don’t see it spare yourself. I bought a washing machine and I was very happy washing lots of things that where dirty for a long time. I went to the show and all I could think of while the performance was happening is how happy would I had been if I had stay home looking in to the glass of my new machine while it turns, imagine!