Εγώ κι εσύ

Ego ki Esu is a two-actor play at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation on Pireos 206 in Tavros, running Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through the 2025-2026 season. Two chairs, two teenagers, one poem by Walt Whitman, and a secret that rewrites everything you thought the last hour meant.

Lauren Gunderson wrote the original — titled I and You in English — and it won the 2014 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. Gunderson has been America's most produced living playwright since 2016. Director Sophia Vgenopoulou stages the Greek-language adaptation with Leda Koutsoudaskalou as Caroline, a teenager confined to her bedroom by a liver disease that has kept her out of school for months, and Stergios Mikroustikos as Anthony, a basketball player who shows up at her door with Leaves of Grass and a deadline.

The Michael Cacoyannis Foundation — named for the director of Zorba the Greek — is a purpose-built cultural center at the industrial end of Pireos Street. The performance space is direct and unadorned, which suits a play built on proximity: two actors, no set changes, and a conversation that spirals from homework complaints into something neither character expected to say aloud.

You will share the room with school groups who came on organized trips, parents bringing teenagers who need to see a story about isolation and connection that is not on a screen, and theater regulars who follow Gunderson's work or Vgenopoulou's direction.

If you are looking for spectacle — large cast, elaborate staging, musical numbers — this is the opposite. But if you want to watch two performers hold a room with nothing but dialogue and a twist that earns its silence, the script does the work.

Sunday performances at 15:00 and 18:30, Friday and Saturday at 20:30. Tickets twenty euros, fifteen reduced. The foundation is on the Pireos corridor — the nearest metro options are Tavros or Petralona, both roughly a ten-minute walk.

A play about two teenagers, a poem, and a reveal that makes you rethink every line that came before it.