CAVEMAN

A man in overalls walks to the center of the stage, draws a cave painting on an invisible wall, and starts explaining why his wife sends him to buy one thing at the supermarket and he comes back with seven wrong items.

Rob Becker wrote Defending the Caveman in 1991 and it became the longest-running one-man show in Broadway history. Sotiris Kalyvatsis performs the Greek adaptation, directed by Giorgos Galitis, wearing the role with the timing of someone who has toured it across Greece.

If you want nuanced relationship drama, this is ninety minutes of stand-up-meets-theater that trades in broad gender comedy. But if you want to laugh at recognizable domestic absurdity with a room full of couples nudging each other, Kalyvatsis keeps the gags landing.

Theatro Argo, Elefsiniou 15 in Metaxourgio. Curtain at 21:00, duration ninety minutes.

The show has been filling rooms since 1991 and the material has not aged out of relevance — or out of arguments.