Venice Open Stage 2024

The School of Drama participated in the 12th Venice Open Stage (VOS) with the project HOMESICKNESS BLUES under the supervision of Kostas Vomvolos (Dall’Aglio Arena, Campazzo San Sebastiano, Venice, 8 & 9 July 2024).

Organising Coordinator: Lila Karakosta

• A music theatre piece based on the narration of Maria Sarantopoulou, the first Greek female journalist, who visited the immigrant camps and working places in the USA between 1913 and 1914. The musical plot of the play interleaves early jazz with civil traditional Greek song, exploring the possibility of a dialog between these different cultures.

  There is also a small intervention about the Italian experience of migration.

  The texts are in Greek with English surtitles and the songs in Greek and in English.

  The texts and the songs are all in the public domain.

  Research, Vocal Training: Kostas Vomvolos, Theatre Music Composer-Musician, Adjunct Professor of Music Theatre,

  Direction: Eleftheria Vergidou, Stage Directing student.

  Artistic direction: Alessandra Tudisco, Erasmus Student (IUAV).

  On Stage: ANNA MARIA BOGIATZOGLOU
  SPYRIDOULA GENITSARIDOU
  ELEFTHERIA MAISTRALI
  ZOI LAI
  ELENI-ANASTASIA GEORGAKI
  ELEFTHERIA VERGIDOU
  ALEXANDROS MAVROUDOPOULOS
  ELENI-MARIA VLASTOPOULOU
  DIMITRA FAKA
  DIMITRIOS MOYSIDIS
  IOANNIS DAFNIS
  ANNA KALMANIDOU

  Duration: 40 min