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2-6 December

7:30pm, 3pm

A Frangosyriani, a Lady and Roza
Μια Φραγκοσυριανή, μια Αρχόντισσα, μια Ρόζα

Theatre Lab Company

Rebetiko Cabaret, a musical and theatrical performance performed in Greek with English surtitles

Three women, three voices, live music and the spirit of Rebetiko.


Rebetiko was more than a musical genre. It was a cultural watershed: a bold field of expression

that emerged from the traumatic population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s

and gave voice to class oppression, female emancipation and cultural diversity at a time when

any form of difference was a stigma and meant living on the margins. It carries the experiences of

those who were never meant to be heard — displaced, stateless, classed, gendered, culturally

hybrid — and it did so through song, through defiance, and through a specific, irreducible style. Its

very sound was proof that cultures do not close in on themselves, but are built at the crossroads.

The performance draws on real stories, historical testimonies and the lives behind the songs

bringing female voices to life through music, songs, movement, choreography, and storytelling

transforming memory and fantasy into real action.


Directed by Anastasia Revi


Performed by Elena Hadjiafxendi, Anastasia Revi, Elena Michailidi


Music by Sevdalides Music Band


Produced by Theatre Lab Company and Theatro Technis

Anastasia Revi

Anastasia Revi is the Artistic Director of Theatre Lab Company, an award winning International Theatre Company that is based in London.Her company has been nominated for Total Theatre Awards and has received the OFFCOMM Commendation , the Most Innovative International Theatre Production Company UK , the Coup de Coeur of Avignon Festival, the Prague’s Press’ Choice and The Hellenic Foundation Award. She has directed a vast number of theatre productions in London, in Greece and abroad, including Love in A Foreign Land , Alice at the Asylum, Emmeline andThe Suffragette Movement , Don Juan, A Respectable Wedding, Great Expectations, Lucrezia Borgia, Jamaica Inn, Salome, Dancing with the Devil: Rudolf Nureyev, Macbeth, Sweet Bird of Youth, Medea, Lysistrata, The Oresteia, Antigone, Ghost from a Perfect Place, Velvet Scratch. Anastasia has been highly praised and recognised for her hard work and dedication to Culture and she had the honour to be nominated for the Greek International Women Awards, the Woman of the Year Award of Greece and Emerging Theatre Director Award. She has received the 2016 Director’s Award of Greece, and EXALIPTRON Award for Theatre.

Elena Michailidi

Elena Michailidi is an actress and theatre practitioner based in London. She graduated in Philosophy from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and trained as an actress at the Superior Drama School Andreas Voutsinas (three-year full scholarship), before completing an MA in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She works with Theatre Lab Company as Production Manager and Assistant Director to Anastasia Revi, and recently directed and performed her debut solo piece, "...and Juliet" by Akis Dimou, at VOILA! Europe Theatre Festival in London. Her performance work spans drama, dance-theatre and devised performance in Greece, Germany and the UK.

Elena Hadjiafxendi

Elena Hadjiafxendi is a Greek Cypriot actress, singer and creator based in the UK. Her work is rooted in the cultural memory, literature and musical traditions of Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean, spanning music, theatre, film, television, poetry and live performance. Her practice explores the intersection of voice, text and storytelling, creating interdisciplinary work where presence and language converge. She has performed across the UK and Europe in theatre, concert and literary contexts, as well as in film and television.  Elena is the founder of The Vintage Project and co-creator of Space on Stage, and the lead singer of Unicorn Frequency.
USEFUL INFORMATION

Estimated running time

2 hours, including an interval

Performance times

7:30pm, 3pm

Ticket prices

£25/£22

Concession

Full-time students, those aged under 16, senior citizens, the unwaged, members of Equity and BECTU

Access

Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system fitted in the main auditorium. If you have any questions or specific requests, please email boxoffice@theatrotechnis.com.

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disabled access

Fully wheelchair accessible

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