Eleni Stroulia
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and set design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, on a scholarship from State Scholarships Foundation. She works as a set, costume and video designer mainly in theatre. Her work has been presented in state and private theatres in Greece (National Theatre of Greece, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Bios, Municipal and Regional Theatres of Larissa, Kavala, et.al.) and abroad (Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Théâtre de la Ville, Bozar Theatre, Sharjah Biennale, Berliner Herbstsalon-Maxim Gorki Theater, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Théâtre VIDY Lausanne et.al.). She participated as art director in the short film Campo by Anestis Azas that premiered at the International Drama Festival Out of Sight at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. She has collaborated with songwriter Fοivos Delivorias as a set & costume designer since 2002. She also curated dramaturgy for National Garden (Athens Festival 2017 – 2018), The grief of the unemployed (Athens Festival 2014) et.al. The narrative essay National Garden, authored in collaboration with Thodoris Gonis, was published by Agra Publications in 2019.
In this post-documentary performance, based on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, the characters take up the role of “experts” and present hypothetical scenarios of their life after the Cherry Orchard is sold. “Home” is to all of us a refuge of stability and security. The tiny house of the set aims to be the exact opposite: it is displaced and deconstructed just like the characters’ universe. It is a theatrical setting placed, like a Russian Matryoshka doll, inside a film studio – a blue-box. Through the rare genre of a fictional documentary following the effort of Chekhov’s characters to adapt to a new reality, exploring alternative futures, the performance meets the challenges of our own new reality – the pandemic, the climate change, the neoliberal call for self-improvement and self-exploitation, … the rising housing costs of a city surrendered to Airbnb, love via digital applications, all of these are the “progress” to which the characters struggle to adapt, just like us.
Concept – Directing: Prodromos Tsinikoris
Text: Ioanna Valsamidou – Prodromos Tsinikoris & the team
Collaborating Director: Korina Vasileiadou
Dramaturgy: Martin Valdés-Stauber, Ioanna Valsamidou
Set & Costume Design: Eleni Stroulia
Set & Costume Design Collaborator: Zaira Falirea
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Musical Composition – Sound Design: Panagiotis Manouilidis
Video: Dimitris Zachos
Video Cinematography: Michalis Gkatzogias
Photos: Alexandre Schlub, Eleni Stroulia, Sofia Theodoraki
In this post-documentary performance, based on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, the characters take up the role of “experts” and present hypothetical scenarios of their life after the Cherry Orchard is sold. “Home” is to all of us a refuge of stability and security. The tiny house of the set aims to be the exact opposite: it is displaced and deconstructed just like the characters’ universe. It is a theatrical setting placed, like a Russian Matryoshka doll, inside a film studio – a blue-box. Through the rare genre of a fictional documentary following the effort of Chekhov’s characters to adapt to a new reality, exploring alternative futures, the performance meets the challenges of our own new reality – the pandemic, the climate change, the neoliberal call for self-improvement and self-exploitation, … the rising housing costs of a city surrendered to Airbnb, love via digital applications, all of these are the “progress” to which the characters struggle to adapt, just like us.
She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and set design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, on a scholarship from State Scholarships Foundation. She works as a set, costume and video designer mainly in theatre. Her work has been presented in state and private theatres in Greece (National Theatre of Greece, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Bios, Municipal and Regional Theatres of Larissa, Kavala, et.al.) and abroad (Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Théâtre de la Ville, Bozar Theatre, Sharjah Biennale, Berliner Herbstsalon-Maxim Gorki Theater, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Théâtre VIDY Lausanne et.al.). She participated as art director in the short film Campo by Anestis Azas that premiered at the International Drama Festival Out of Sight at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. She has collaborated with songwriter Fοivos Delivorias as a set & costume designer since 2002. She also curated dramaturgy for National Garden (Athens Festival 2017 – 2018), The grief of the unemployed (Athens Festival 2014) et.al. The narrative essay National Garden, authored in collaboration with Thodoris Gonis, was published by Agra Publications in 2019.
Concept – Directing: Prodromos Tsinikoris
Text: Ioanna Valsamidou – Prodromos Tsinikoris & the team
Collaborating Director: Korina Vasileiadou
Dramaturgy: Martin Valdés-Stauber, Ioanna Valsamidou
Set & Costume Design: Eleni Stroulia
Set & Costume Design Collaborator: Zaira Falirea
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Musical Composition – Sound Design: Panagiotis Manouilidis
Video: Dimitris Zachos
Video Cinematography: Michalis Gkatzogias
Photos: Alexandre Schlub, Eleni Stroulia, Sofia Theodoraki
