Past appearance
6 February 2026
National Theatre of Greece / Experimental Stage
Dipylon Theatre
Athens, Greece
Premiere
Project Description
In a future where entertainment is produced by artificial intelligence and live performances have been displaced, eight actors meet for the first time in the ruins of an abandoned theater. It is—was—the country’s National Theater. And tomorrow it will be demolished.
None of them have been on stage for years.
Almost no one remembers how theater is made. But they remember that they miss it. And that’s enough.
Without a play, without a director, without an audience, with fear, uncertainty, and mistrust, they start from scratch to create theater again. Objects from old performances, books, programs, broken musical instruments, worn costumes and masks—fragments of theater history—will spark their imagination, bringing back forgotten words and memories. Slowly, their bodies will remember. How to approach another body again. To tune into a melody. To break. To be silent. To tell a story.
Collective memory, personal experience, mistakes, failure, the need for expression, and the adrenaline rush of exposure push the eight actors into a collective endeavor-adventure: to perform again. Not to save theater, not to rebel, not to make history, but simply because they cannot do otherwise. And in doing so, they rediscover why theater was, and will remain, essential.
The performance ‘I Screamed at the Gods of 0 and 1’ is a hybrid theater-within-theater that balances—sometimes playfully, sometimes melancholically, sometimes dangerously—between reality and fiction. Through frenetic acts, prolonged pauses, blackouts, playbacks, silences and songs, theatrical monologues and personal confessions, autobiographical texts, AI-generated texts, and improvisations, it composes a fragmentary dramaturgy that blurs the boundaries between performance and rehearsal, actor and role, past and future, human and algorithm.
Made with the materials of real life, life on stage, and life in the digital world, it is ultimately a reminder of the persistent, primal, invincible need to continue playing.
