THE PROSTITUTE UPSTAIRS
The show that has received the best reviews from audiences and critics,
continues its successful run for a 9th season at the CORONET THEATER.
SUMMARY
Erato - the housewife below - talks about love, rejection, betrayal, brutality against women, corrupt public officials, lack of self - esteem. With patience and stoicism, he lives on the sidelines, until the day a prostitute moves into the apartment above. And then, her life changes in a magical way.
A unique acting recital, which takes us for 90 minutes from laughter to emotion, lingering in reality at every moment
to lead us to a SURPRISE ending!!!
PHOTOS
COEFFICIENTS
LIGHTING
ELENI ANAGNOSTOPOULOU
ARTISTIC CURATOR
MINAS MINATSIS
COSTUMES
DIMITRIS ANDRIANOS
MUSIC EDITING
MICHALIS ROUBIS IOANNIS - IOLAOS MANIATIS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
MICHALIS ROUBIS
CONSOLE OPERATION
SEMINA PAPALEXOPOULOU
SET CURATION
MATTHAIOS DAMIGOS
REVIEWS
…Katerina Didaskalou as Erato, is true, simple, earthy, restrained, with excellent crescendos, she embroidered the monologue without visible joints in the canvas of the narration. She played excellently with the gun, the suspense and the versions of a possible suicide, or a likely murder, also flirting with the Chekhovian maxim that says: if a gun appears in the first act, in the third it will certainly go off.
She also played with the eyes, which have the power to narrate alongside but also against her voice and body. Finally, she played with the humor of the text. She often provoked laughter, but she immediately surrendered it – almost terrified – to the bitterness and heartbreak of personal memories, which automatically acquired a collective resonance in the space. (Anni Koltsidopoulou / KATHIMERINI NEWSPAPER)
…the interpretation of Katerina Didaskalou in a role of the ‘opposite’, that of the oppressed woman who breaks free after her husband’s funeral, is mesmerizing. A whole life in seventy minutes. This is what Katerina Didaskalou succeeds in representing, as she interprets with admirable directness, simplicity and moderation the well – written monologue of Antonis Tsipianitis “The prostitute from upstairs” (2011). Without make – up and almost uncombed, with a conservative and not very flattering outfit, Didaskalou appears on stage, nibbles a few snacks, arranges her embroideries and doilies and already with her first sentences she has you hooked thanks to her “live” performance. However, there are several surprises in his writing, apart from the catalytic finding of the prostitute who moved into the apartment on the upper floor, as well as a corrosive humor that softens the possible melodrama. But mainly there is Didaskalou herself as an ideal interpreter of Erato. (Ileiana Dimadi / ATHINORAMA)
...there are moments when you don’t follow the flow of the play because you are following her facial expression. Those of you who only know her from television, will see another person in a well – known figure, the actress moving free from the conventions of commercialism and the lens. And those of you who have watched her in the theater, you will see her stepping into a new stage that can be maturity, can also be the destination of a talent that has worked hard. What impressed me most about the performance? The way she instills humility in her acting style. Didaskalou usually invests her role with her personal “air”. Not here. In this monologue she descends to the level of a miserable, abused woman, takes her by the hand and raises her to the light, exposes her to the warmest applause. The show lasts seventy minutes, but in the end it feels like it ended early. Go watch it, it’s worth it. (Kostas Giannakidis / www.protagon.gr)
