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"A powerful example of theatre" - Parikiaki newspaper
When her beloved father dies, young Penelope clings to the past while his widow pushes to move on. Like the Greek heroines defending sacred traditions of old, she must decide where the battle lines are drawn. As the bereaved gather, grief ignites a territorial war over the deceased, which then engulfs the soul of the family itself. Ancient grudges fume, primal bonds are torched and, like molten rock surging through fault lines in the Earth's crust, the deepest injuries are finally forced into the open. Will conflict separate the family from its history and alienate bloodlines forever? In a house divided, will love survive — and will anyone survive love?
This is a new contemporary play by Philip de Voni set in Cyprus and England. Directed by Kerry Kyriacos Michael MBE, the Creative Director of London's Theatro Technis, and Olivier and UK Theatre Award-winner.
There will be a post-show discussion with members of the cast and creative teams on February 12.
Poster Design: E. de Vries
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Photo credit: Andreas Lambis
Bea Svistunenko
Natalya
Fanos Xenofós
Kypros Petrides
Fanos trained at ALRA and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. OFFIE nominated for Best Actor in Supporting Role for his role as the immigration officer in Can’t See For Looking at the Cockpit Theatre. Other theatre credits include: Sappho (Southwark Playhouse), The Beekeeper Of Aleppo (Nottingham Playhouse & UK/Dublin tour), Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville), Antigone (Southwark Playhouse), Rest Upon The Wind (Riverside Studios & Middle East tour), Hedda Gabler (Riverside Studios), The Crumple Zone (Kings Head), Failed States (Edinburgh Festival), Don Quixote In Algiers (White Bear Theatre), Dogs Barking (Edinburgh Underbelly) Television credits include: The Chelsea Detective (Acorn TV), FBI: International (CBS), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu), Mankind (History Channel), The Jonathan Pie Referendum Special.
Lucy Christofi Christy
Aristeia
Lucy trained Rose Bruford and works in the Greek/Cypriot and English languages. Theatre includes: A View From The Bridge, Oedipus, Italian American Reconciliation, Macbeth, Yerma, Medea Redux, Hecuba, Invitation to a Beheading, Trojan Women. One women plays: Elena Pavli’s Cypria, Maria
Vigar’s The Machinist, Giorgos Neophytou’s Manoli! She’s appeared in many plays directed by Sam Neofytou and George Eugeniou for Theatro Technis.
Working in Cyprus she played the lead in a Greek Cypriot TV Series and appeared in feature films - Costas Dimitriou’s Road to Ithaka, Panicos
Chrysanthou’s Akamas. Toured in plays for Theatro Ena and Alpha Square.
Voice work includes: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Alexander, Munich, Mamma Mia and radio dramas for London Greek Radio. Film/TV music videos includes: The Bill, Newsnight, Bad Girls, Quanna, Fish n’ Chips, Smoking Guns, Bubbles.
Award winning short films include: Laura Hypponen’s Quadraturin, Vicki Psarias Broken, various shorts by Karine Bedrossian, Dimitri Papazahariou’s Leventis.
Recent theatre: touring Vasili Panayi’s trilingual Greek, Turkish, English play Aphrodite’s Children. Maria Vigar’s play Love in a Foreign Land directed by Anastasia Revi and An Album of Stories directed by Marios Theoharous.
Lucy can currently be heard voicing various characters for a very popular video game!
Sam Cox
Dominic
Theatre includes: Richard III (Rose Kingston/Liverpool), The Visit, Oedipus, The UN Inspector (National), Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, Henry V, The Tempest, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, All's Well That Ends Well, Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe), A Woman of No Importance, Arcadia (West End), Jekyll & Hyde (Tour), A Midsummer Night's Dream, My Dad's A Birdman, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (Young Vic), The Crucible (Royal Exchange), The Twits (Royal Court), The Trojan Woman (Gate), Inherit The Wind (Old Vic), Lovesong (Frantic Assembly), The Deep Blue Sea (West Yorkshire Playhouse), King John, Romeo And Juliet, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida (RSC), Festen (Almeida/West End), Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance (Oxford Stage Company), Great Expectations (Bristol Old Vic), Arabian Night (ATC/Soho), The Power of Darkness, The Revengers Tragedy (Orange Tree), A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Trick, The Singapore Grip, Casualty, Father Brown, New Tricks, The Commander, Inspector Lynley, Doctor Who, The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two Sheds, The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Crime Traveller, Prime Suspect, Kavanagh QC, The Chief, Dandelion Dean, The Orchid House.
Film includes: The Man With Urn, The Man in the Hat, Waiting For You, The Look of Love, Anna Karenina, Agora.
Chrisanthi Livadiotis
Xenya
Chrisanthi Livadiotis is a Cypriot born actor and theatre maker based in London. She trained at Queen Mary University of London and Columbia University in New York. During her studies, she co-founded Stage 3, an award-winning participatory theatre experience in collaboration with People’s Palace Projects that generates discussion about migration, discrimination, and belonging.
She has performed in productions across Europe, New York, and the UK and showcased her work at venues including Theatre Deli, Camden People’s Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, and the Gate Theatre.
Her debut play, ’74, supported by the Cyprus High Commission, was staged at the Barons Court Theatre as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival 2024, where it was nominated for an OffFest Award. The Kitchen Table, her one-act play, was selected for Reboot Festival 5 and staged at the Arches Lane Theatre.
Most recently, she became a member of E-Co, the core touring company of THE HERDS, opening the Venice Dance Biennale 2025, Olavsfest, and the Manchester International Festival.
Han-Roze Adonis
Penelope
Ruth Lass
Jennifer
Theatre includes: Cutting The Tightrope (Arcola Theatre/Edinburgh Fringe); The Tremors (HER Productions); 12:37 (Finborough Theatre); Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre); Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East and UK Tour); Great Apes (Arcola); A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck); Hospital At The Time of The Revolution (Finborough); The Rest Is Silence(Riverside Studios, World Shakespeare Festival); Wagner Dream (Barbican); Tempest (Barbican Bite); Hamlet (Riverside Studios); The Girl on The Sofa (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh International Festival); Martin Yesterday (Manchester Royal Exchange); The House of Bernarda Alba (Young Vic/Shared Experience); Uganda and Live Like Pigs (both Royal Court); The Skryker (National Theatre); Hurricane Roses and Uganda (National Theatre Studio); Les Juste and Hecuba (both The Gate); Mrs Klein (Watford); And All Because The Lady Loves (Soho Theatre); The Dybbuk (New End, International tour).
TV includes: Strike – Lethal White; Silent Witness; Houdini and Doyle; Eastenders; White Teeth; Holby City; Coupling; High Stakes; Trial & Retribution; Antigone; Casualty; The Bill.
Film Includes: Divine Origins, The Ashes You Leave Behind, Keys, Between The Tides, Disobedience; The Book of Gabrielle; Mad Cows; Fill Up, Indian Summer.
Philip de Voni
Writer
Philip de Voni is a writer of plays, poems and narrative fiction. Of Cypriot and British heritage, he grew up mainly in the UK and studied English and Theology at the University of St Andrews. He lives permanently outside the UK but spends some time each year in Nicosia and London. The Ophiolite is his first full length stage play.
Cory Shipp
Set and Costume
Cory is a set and costume designer working across all ranges of performative work across the UK. Cory trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre (as Designer) includes: The Mikvah Project (Orange Tree Theatre); Hansel & Gretel (Chiswick Playhouse), Cyrano de Bergerac, Easy Virtue (The Watermill Theatre); Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play, RENT, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Vinegar Tom, Caucasian Chalk Circle, 6 Characters , Let The Right One in, (Mountview Theatre Academy); Another Planet (The Gramophones Theatre Company); Justice in a Day (Theatr Clwyd); Anyone Can Whistle (Southwark Playhouse, Grey Area Theatre); Deffro’r Gwanywn (Y Cwmni); Glacier (Old Fire Station); The EU Killed My Dad (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Book of Eternity, (Northern Opera); Ice at the End of the World, (Omnibus Theatre); Hansel and Grettel (Creation Theatre); Northbound Boy, (Kings Head Theatre); Cinderella, Educating Rita, (Barn Theatre); Pontypool, (Wales Millennium Centre) and A Role to Die for (Marylebone Theatre, Barn Theatre). Theatre (as Set Designer) includes: Wipe These Tears (Bezna Theatre Company); Justice in a Day (Theatr Clwyd); Sweet Charity (ArtsEd); The Lion, The B!tch and The Wardrobe (Wales Millennium Centre), Son of a Bitch (The Thelmas); Codi and Shades of Blue (Sadlers Wells, Matsena Dance); For more credits and images: coryshippdesign.com
José Guillermo Puello
Composer and Sound
José Guillermo Puello is a composer/sound designer based in Manchester, originally from the Dominican Republic. Since graduating from the University of Manchester with a PhD in Composition in 2015, he has worked in theatre, dance, podcast and the concert hall. As Sound Designer: In the Beginning Woman Was the Sun (HOME and tour); Dynamic Flight (Tour); WrestleLadsWrestle (HOME); Nancy’s Orange (Theatre by the Lake); Meetings (Orange Tree Theatre); Bungalow (Theatre503); The Great Privation (Theatre503); Dream School (The Space); Stray Dogs (Theatre503); There’s no Planet B (Theatre Deli); Legacy (Royal Exchange Theatre). As Assistant sound designer: The Human Body (Donmar Warehouse); Rock, Paper, Scissor (Sheffield Theatres). As Composer: Northern Opera Group; OperaNorth; Manchester Chamber Choir; MusicAbierta; soundSCAPE Exchange; Dominican Republic National Youth Orchestra; Fourth Wall Ensemble; Manchester Camerata.
Nefeli Kentoni
Associate Director
Nefeli Kentoni (b. 1998, Cyprus) is a London-based director, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work responds to the remains of a world in constant flux. Through theatrical and cinematic forms, she investigates the gaps between language and image, the performer-viewer relationship, and the lightness of existence. Weaving tenderness, absurdity, and humour, she dismantles reality and reconstructs it within unpredictable landscapes. Nefeli is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Central Saint Martins (UAL), where she was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Award. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including Tate Modern, Barbican Centre, Prague Quadrennial, The Place, Nicosia International Festival, Dance House Lefkosia, Rialto Theatre, and the Chengdu– Chongqing International Theatre Festival. She was Writer in Residence at Tate Exchange and part of the Barbican’s Young Visual Arts Group for two consecutive years. Her short film Fragility of Language won the Screendance Short Film Competition at the 36th Leeds International Film Festival. Her performance Katabasis was a finalist at the Offies Awards 2025, and received the Best Director Award at the Chengdu–Chongqing International Theatre Festival, where her performance Wall of Babel also won Best Play.
Kerry Kyriacos Michael
Director
Kerry Kyriacos Michael, a second-generation North London Cypriot, was Artistic Director & Chief Executive of Theatre Royal Stratford East from Sept 2004 to Sept 2017. For 13 years, he forged the Theatre’s commitment to develop new work and provide a platform for under-represented voices in the Arts. He is now the Creative Director of Theatro Technis. In 2018, Kerry won Artistic Director Of The Year at the OFF WEST END Awards. In 2019 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London, and in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the Arts. Kerry’s Theatre directing credits include new plays, musicals and operas, including Paul Sirett's play Jamaica House, Tanika Gupta's play, Love and Stuff and Tariq Jordan's play, Ali and Dahlia. Other work includes John Adam’s I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky (co-production with Barbican), The Harder They Come, (transferred to the West End; tours of Canada and USA), Ray Davies’ Come Dancing (Winner What’s On Stage Best New Musical) and a new production of The Who’s Tommy - embedding creative BSL, Captioning and Audio Description. (Winner UK Theatre Awards Best Touring Production 16/17). As a creative producer he has won two Oliviers and had seven further nominations.
TheGeorgeNET
Projection and Lighting
TheGeorgeNET (Georgijs Gaisins) is a dynamic and multidisciplinary creative working across theatre directing and lighting design. His practice bridges theatre, film, installation, and performance art, using a distinct visual language and conceptual depth, his work challenges traditional boundaries of storytelling and form. A graduate of the University of the Arts London – Central Saint Martins, where he earned a Master’s degree with Distinction in Performance: Design and Practice, Georgijs previously completed a BA in Theatre Production (Directing) at Middlesex University, developing a strong foundation in stagecraft and collaborative creation. His portfolio spans dance, contemporary theatre, performance, and musicals, with recent credits including This Is My Family (Southwark Playhouse), Nullspace Motel (touring production), 1984 (Omnibus Theatre), Seeking Shadows (Rich Mix), and I JUST LIKE YOU – A GAY MYTH (Theatre503). TheGeorgeNET’s work has been featured and exhibited internationally, including a lighting and sound installation at Pushkin House, London, in collaboration with the Fetish collective. His recent theatrical project Technological Singularity was featured in BlackPepper Magazine, reflecting his ongoing commitment to redefining performance through bold, hybrid forms of artistic expression.
Hannah Miller CDG
Casting
Hannah was the RSC’s Head of Casting from 2008-2022. Previously she worked as the Casting Assistant at the National Theatre (1998-2002), Deputy Head of Casting at the RSC (2003-2005) and Casting Director for Birmingham Rep (2005-2008).
She now works as a freelance Casting Director most recently working for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester on productions of Great Expectations and Brief Encounter, and My Neighbour Totoro for the RSC. Later this year she will be working with Wales Millenium Centre on a stage adaptation of Pontypool. Hannah works with drama schools and industry organisations, advising actors on professional development and demystifying casting and directed the ArtsEd Actors final year showcase in both 2023 and 2024. She continues to work with the RSC’s Creative Learning and Engagement team as an Associate Learning Practitioner and NextGeneration:Act champion, is a former Trustee of both Northampton Theatres Trust and Tamasha, a fellow of the RSA and an RSC Associate Artist.
Elena Yianni
Assistant Director
Elena Yianni is a Greek Cypriot Theatre and Film Director working with bold new writing by and about underrepresented voices. She holds a First-Class BA (Hons) in Applied Theatre and is an alumna of the Young Vic’s Fresh Direction Programme and the Lyric Hammersmith Young Associate Programme. She is drawn to stories about people - exploring identity, culture, politics and the realities of life today - as well as stories with a thread of hope. Her practice is shaped by care, curiosity and collaboration. Recent credits include Swedish Meatballs (Theatre503) and Ghost Light (The Hope Theatre).
USEFUL INFORMATION
Estimated running time
2 hours and 20 minutes including an interval
Performance times
2pm, 3pm, 6.30pm & 7.30pm
Ticket prices
from £15 plus booking fee
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.
Content Warnings: Strong language, haze, smoking, incense
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