The theatrical performance “Notes from the Basement” is coming to Heraklion

The “Artistic Society of Performing Arts THEA.T.H” presents the first and most peculiar of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpieces. It is a forerunner of his later works, such as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Demons, because it deals with the social, political and moral ideas he negotiates in his above works. Breaking away from the established way of writing, he tells us about the escape from society to the underworld, “Underground”. From “Underground” emerges the passionate confession of a suffering man. His “No Mercy” self-criticism has highlighted him as one of the greatest Anti-heroes of all time in World Literature.

Text dramatization: Konstantinos Polopetrakis

Directed by: Kyriakos Korogiannis

Scenography / Costumes: Georgios Sbokos

Orchestral music: Giorgos Skandalis

Photos: Manos Politakis

Lighting: Stelios Spithakis

Performed by: Konstantinos Polopetrakis

Lisa / Waitress : Kalliopi Dakanali

Ferfitskin : Christos Karantais

Simonov: Kyriakos Korogiannis

Sverkov: George Manousakis

Trudoliubov: Vangelis Nirakis

Singing: Kalliopi Dakanali, Christos Karantais, Giorgos Manousakis

Genre: Social

Duration: 75′

Performances: Premiere November 20

Every Monday, Thursday and Friday at Comeet Polychoro at 3 Louka Petraki Street in Heraklion, until the end of February.

Production: Art Theater of Heraklion

Curriculum vitae

Konstantinos Polopetrakis

He was born in Athens on June 17, 1985 and comes from Heraklion and Rethymnon in Crete. He is a graduate of the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education of Athens with postgraduate studies in Educational Psychology and Educational Counseling. He studied at a Private Higher School of Dramatic Art and attended directing, acting and dance seminars in Greece and Italy. He is the founder of the “Performing Art Society THEA.T.H”. Some works he has taken part in are: Chickens, Lysistrata, Frogs, Plutos and Horseman of Aristophanes. Oedipus Tyrant by Sophocles. Euripides’ Trojans. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Othello and Hamlet. Philargyros, Tartufos and Doctor with Moliere’s Stanio. Our Great Circus of Iakovos Campanellis. Dear God by Eric Manuel Schmitt. The Rainmaker by Richard Nash. Of Men and Mice and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Caligula by Albert Camus. Psychology of a Syrian Husband and The Complaint of the Dead by Emmanuel Roidis.