Prometheus in Athens

NAME: ANNITA MAVROMICHALI

BORN: ATHENS

ORIGIN: MANI

LIVING: CENTRAL ATHENS

AT THE NIGHT OF THE PERFORMANCE SHE WILL TAKE A TAXI FROM NEA SMYRNI (FROM HER SISTER’S PLACE WHERE SHE IS STAYING FOR A WHILE), GO UP SYGGROU AVENUE, TURN  LEFT AT THE COLUMNS OF ZEUS AND FROM THERE WALK UP TO HERODION.

Annita Mavromichali has just returned to Greece after having lived abroad for 35 years as a commercial attaché in the Greek embassy. From her first placement in Belgrade she ended up in Washington DC, where from she returned after her retirement on June 19th. “I was in the centre of activities” at work. She has lived in Serbia, Denmark, Polland, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey and the USA. All these years she was visiting Greece as a rich tourist, since she did not have time to live in Greece, as she was placed form one country to another. “I now return to meet all the problems I have left behind 35 years ago.”
 
What she wants to do more than anything is to work in fashion, fashion as an art, because she thinks that Greek women, including herself,  dress bad. It is the lack of style that bothers her, because “they put on clothes that do not fit them.
In Herodion theatre she will stand out by her white platinum hair “foolish blond.”

Although she has travelled to many places she speaks Greek, French and English, because every time she was falling in love, she could not be bothered with learning new foreign languages.
She prefers not to belong to any group of people because she was out of any box and because she prefers “not to enter the category of public workers”, because as a diplomat she is considered to be one.

«The older I get, the less I know. My life has gone by so fast, like smoking a cigarette.”
She feels that what characterizes is unbearable sadness, for the things that go by, the things she has not done, for the mistakes she has done, for the people who are gone, for those goodbyes. “I have spend a whole life saying goodbye to people….”

She likes the character of Euripides’ Iokaste because she had everything in contradiction to Sophokles Iokasti who seems to be shaggy.
She identifies herself with Hermes, not only because of profession but also because like him she finds herself being between two things.