A series of monologues about animals with behaviors that are similar to human behaviors, and human animals.
Performed on the streets of Athens by Joëlle Montech and Margaret Wesseling, Spring 2023.
Performed at Aegina Film Festival, August 22, 2023.
The story of a young woman's immigration and assimilation to a new culture. The transition was hard. But what's missing in the new place? It's so hard to tell.
https://www.facebook.com/margaret.wesseling.1/videos/719615130261807
https://soundcloud.com/margaret-wesseling/something-missing?si=183161d1949f4a0a9791391cb0a64fe8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdl1yOiyJw&ab_channel=SomethingMissing
https://www.mixcloud.com/Beton7artradio/voulez-vous-jo%C3%ABlle-montech-12092022/
https://www.mixcloud.com/Beton7artradio/voulez-vous-19092022/
A rogue reporter takes to the streets and finds things he didn't expect.
Selected for Stories from the Lockdown Era festival, England, 2020
The stories of four young people on the streets of any city. As they struggle to live and grow they develop courage, friendship and a dynamic attitude towards life, but their fates are ruled by the thirsty god of the sun who demands a return for the life in them.
- Accepted, Athens Suitcase Festival, Spring 2020
Three inhabitants of a remote mountain village struggle to save their world from destruction as the government builds a road under their land. The more they search for answers, the less they find they know. In the process they come to a new understanding of themselves and the real foundation of their lives.
- The Greek translation of this play was selected in the Eurodram competition for Greece, 2021. The play can be found at play-ground.gr.
A group of moths is threatened with extinction because the sun is growing stronger and it burns their wings. They learn that a butterfly has found a solution to this problem: getting “the operation”, which makes your wings transparent. Envy and despair collide with the animals' need to survive.
- The play was a finalist in the New Works of Merit competition, December 2017.
Orpheus has been reincarnated as a library worker. His coworker has forgotten who he is. Their struggle takes them through hell and out the other side as each learns more about himself than he wanted to.
- The Greek translation of this play received an honorable mention in the Eurodram 2017 competition in Greece.
On an isolated farm, plagued by poverty and insanity, a young woman is trying to get out of her life. Her search takes her out of everything she knows, across borders and into a completely different environment as she and her family make the transition from country to city.
What do you need to be all right? Some money, or just a shower? Would friendship help? Two worlds collide in a park when young and old, rich and poor cannot avoid each other.
Published by Aigokeros (Athens 2019) / Directed by Ioannis Backogeorgos at Beep Theatre, Athens, November 2019
