Μπουμπουλίνας 18

Amalia Arseni walks onstage carrying her aunt's words. Kitty Arseni was an actress arrested in the summer of 1967, tortured at the security headquarters on Bouboulinas Street, and released in 1968 — when she fled Greece and testified before the Council of Europe, exposing the marks on her body to international observers.

Sofia Karagianni directs this stage adaptation of Arseni's memoir, placing the story on the main stage of Theatro tou Neou Kosmou. The premiere falls on 25 April, the anniversary of the restoration of democracy.

If you want comfortable theater that keeps its distance from history, this production puts you inside a detention cell. But if you want testimony turned into performance — personal memory made public and physical — this is the form it takes.

Theatro tou Neou Kosmou, Antisthenous 7 in Neos Kosmos. Saturdays at 21:00, Sundays at 20:00.

Some stories survive because someone chose to speak when silence was safer.