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Sotiris Melanos

Set Designer

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ANTIGONE, SUSPENDED

Bio

Born in Athens and raised in Kalamata. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens focusing on scenography for his thesis and final design project. Since 2015, he has collaborated with various set designers for theatre, opera and dance productions in Greece and abroad (National Theatre of Greece, Greek National Opera, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm et.al.). In 2019-2021, he worked as an assistant to set & costume designer Elli Papageorgakopoulou, taking on the completion of her set design for the opera Inland (Greek National Opera 2022) after her passing. He designed the sets for the productions: Sotiria’s Songs (Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021), To Kitos (Bios 2021), Nadja – Who Am I? (Kalamata International Dance Festival 2021) and Antigone, suspended (Sfendoni Theatre 2022).


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The performance focuses on the uncertainty that the heroes face in the aftermath of devastation, a subject matter relatable to the post-pandemic reality. A city following a war is suffocated by the predicament of decisions that define the fates of the heroes. The need for a deeper form of communication stemming from the post-pandemic rearrangement leads to the search for materials that emphasise communication with the audience in a natural and sincere way. The fragments on stage constitute a visualisation of the object that has been relegated to merely a substance of memory. The material chosen for the fragments is white plaster; a material similar to real stone with adequate weight and texture, that produces sound when falling on the wooden floor and creates dust during the play. A simple but functional material, plaster becomes the materiality of human symbols. Its abstraction, moreover, resonates with the post-pandemic need of the artists to find substance by abstracting what is “exterior”.

Credits

Author: Sophocles
Translation: Minos Volanakis
Direction – Adaptation: Rinio Kyriazi
Music: Nikos Veliotis
Scenography: Sotiris Melanos
Costume Design: Matina Megla
Lighting Design: Stevi Koutsothanasi

Photos: Karol Jarek, Sotiris Melanos

SFENDONI THEATRE, ATHENS – JUNE 2022

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ANTIGONE, SUSPENDED

The performance focuses on the uncertainty that the heroes face in the aftermath of devastation, a subject matter relatable to the post-pandemic reality. A city following a war is suffocated by the predicament of decisions that define the fates of the heroes. The need for a deeper form of communication stemming from the post-pandemic rearrangement leads to the search for materials that emphasise communication with the audience in a natural and sincere way. The fragments on stage constitute a visualisation of the object that has been relegated to merely a substance of memory. The material chosen for the fragments is white plaster; a material similar to real stone with adequate weight and texture, that produces sound when falling on the wooden floor and creates dust during the play. A simple but functional material, plaster becomes the materiality of human symbols. Its abstraction, moreover, resonates with the post-pandemic need of the artists to find substance by abstracting what is “exterior”.

Bio

Born in Athens and raised in Kalamata. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens focusing on scenography for his thesis and final design project. Since 2015, he has collaborated with various set designers for theatre, opera and dance productions in Greece and abroad (National Theatre of Greece, Greek National Opera, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm et.al.). In 2019-2021, he worked as an assistant to set & costume designer Elli Papageorgakopoulou, taking on the completion of her set design for the opera Inland (Greek National Opera 2022) after her passing. He designed the sets for the productions: Sotiria’s Songs (Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021), To Kitos (Bios 2021), Nadja – Who Am I? (Kalamata International Dance Festival 2021) and Antigone, suspended (Sfendoni Theatre 2022).

Credits

Author: Sophocles
Translation: Minos Volanakis
Direction – Adaptation: Rinio Kyriazi
Music: Nikos Veliotis
Scenography: Sotiris Melanos
Costume Design: Matina Megla
Lighting Design: Stevi Koutsothanasi

Photos: Karol Jarek, Sotiris Melanos

SFENDONI THEATRE, ATHENS – JUNE 2022

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