Past appearance
4 July 2018
Athens Festival
Peiraios 260
Athens, Greece
Premiere
Project Description
A documentary theatre play, based on a true incident that happened a few years ago in the Greek provincial town of Amarynthos. The quiet town came abruptly under the spotlight when a 15-year-old Bulgarian immigrant and honour student appeared at the local police station to report that she had been gang-raped by four of her classmates in the toilets of their high school, while three schoolgirls were allegedly recording the incident on their mobile phones.
Built on extensive archive research and ethnographic fieldwork, “Amarynthos” sheds light to the mechanisms of truth fabrication and justice, while examining the various ways in which public opinion, the media and the local community responded to the case, taking into account the sex, ethnic background, and social class of the victim.
