Prometheus in Athens

NAME : ALEXANDROS KALANTZIS

AGE : 60

PLACE OF RESIDENCE : CENTRAL ATHENS / PALAIO PSYCHIKO

BIRTHPLACE : ATHENS

ORIGIN : ATHENS

ON THE NIGHT OF THE PERFORMANCE HE WILL DRIVE WITH HIS CAR FROM PALAIO PSYCHIKO TO HERODEION FOLLOWING THE ROUTE : KIFISISIAS, VASILISSIS SOFIAS, AMALIAS, SYGGROU AND CHATZICHRISTOU.

Alexandros was born and grew up near the main square of Exarcheia. He went to a private school in Filothei and later studied law in Thessaloniki. At the University of Athens he finished his PhD. All of his life he has been working  as a lawyer.
“I used to see 30 performances every year. But I stopped going to the theatre I think that television destroyed theatre. Theatre is finished”.

He reads ancient drama and states “Oedipus Rex”, “Oedipus at Colonus” and “Antigone” as his favourite plays : “I like Sophocles’ pessimistic view on death”.
About the “Prometheus” – play he says : “I can’t really identify with any of the characters. I’m a little bit of everyone. In tragedies you can’t identify as easy as in modern plays”.
“Unfortunately the human-project that Prometheus constructed led to Auschwitz : the bankruptcy of the idea that man can build life and future”.