Thodoris Katsafados met Kostas Tsouros on the set of the show “Akoma neka siktis nitos” at noon on Sunday at Mega. Among other things, the experienced protagonist spoke from the heart about the shock he suffered when he was informed that he will not continue in the show he is participating in this year.
More specifically, Thodoris Katsafados characteristically noted that “as far as my theatrical plans are concerned, I will play until Plague Sunday in the “Martyr category” and I’m done. Then I discuss to see what will happen. I will not be at the repetition of this work, in the winter. It was an unfortunate moment in my theatrical career, I hope it never happens again. It has never happened to me before and I confess that I have been very saddened by this outcome of things. What can we do, but these things also happen.”
“Let me tell you something to make it clear. When a performance is repeated for the following year, the actors, the producer and the director have the absolute right to continue with another distribution. In one role, in two roles or in three roles and without even saying the reason. They have an absolute right. The obligations of the parties are until Plague Sunday. From then on “we want to continue but we will not change this and that in the roles”. This happened to me many years ago, 40 years ago, when Katrakis started to stage Da, Mimis Chrysomallis played the role in the first months and then he wanted to leave, to go play in Kourokoulos, so I found myself for two and a half years to play with Katrakis in Da”.
“These things happen. What went wrong, let’s say wrong, here in my case is that the contributors should first sit down and think if they want to continue with the same distribution, and then let us know. But this did not happen here. Here during the holiday season they gathered us and told us, to the whole troupe, that we are doing well and we will continue next year all together. We are happy and in January – February we are planning to continue together next year and we were even discussing a change of venue. I was so happy that I obviously canceled some offers I had for next year, said “no I’m going to stay there” and went to interviews saying I’d be there next year. But suddenly, in the middle of February, they announce to me that “you will not continue to be”.
“The reason was never clearly explained. Just like that. This made me very sad, suddenly “you won’t be”. In fact, the director suggested that I be in another theater, with another play, he also gave me the text. I thanked him, told him that I would like to stay here and he said “no, we decided together not to be”. It was very sad because I love the show and my role so much, I loved everything that was happening and stopping. Plus I lost my job because I turned down so many jobs and I don’t know what will happen in the end.”
“The other thing that is very sad, but very sad, is that since then, for three months, I have been playing in a show that I know they don’t want me! This is too unpleasant, too toxic and too torturous for me. That is, I go to a theater, I go up on a stage, which for me is a joy to be on a stage, I leave there to go home and I know they don’t want me. I’m somewhere playing and they don’t want me. I feel it, since they have told me that they don’t want me to be next year. So this saddens me, it’s difficult and I’m experiencing it for the first time” then added Thodoris Katsafados in his new television interview with MEGA.
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