A Body blasts a Mountain.
A Woman cries in a desert.
The last two Survivors fight for a place in history.
A Memory is begging the audience to not forget her.
Bodies on stage try to tidy up the world.
And amid these scenes, a procession led by the Psychopomp descend the five rivers of Hades.

KATABASIS is a theatrical performance, a meditation on human transience. It depicts a world that endlessly collapses and endlessly erects. A world in which characters and audience alike, are not prepared to respond to the remains, to the histories, to the new world, saying goodbye to the old. Inspired by the Cypriot topographical and political landscape, through a series of perpetual deaths the piece explores the paradox between tenderness and violence, remembering and forgetting.

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Running Time: 70 mins

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Writer/Director: Nefeli Kentoni
Performers/Devisers: Melina Koutsofta, Santi Guillamon,

Pablo Temboury, Fatima Rodriguez, Maria Masonou, Gaia Debuchy, Tomio Shota

(Archie Redford & Noemi Gunea 1st version)

Movement Direction: Maria Masonou

Costume Design: Ting Huang

Scenography: Nefeli Kentoni & Veronika Hadjistefanou

Knitted Designs: Veronika Hadjistefanou

Music Composition: Manos Stratis

Sound Design & Mixing: Evagoras Bekiaris
Production Assistant: Marita Anastasi
Photography: Justin Atkins & Antonia Maria Nicolaides

Videography: Nikolas Karatzas

2022: Platform Theatre, UK

2022: Images & Views of Alternative Cinema, CY

2024: Nicosia International Festival, Nicosia Municipal Theatre, CY

2024: Voila Festival, The Playground Theatre, UK