Manoli
by Giorgos Neophytou
presented by Theatro Ena of Cyprus
This will performed by Lucy Christofi Christy
and directed by Andreas Christodoulides.
After a successful reading at Croydon Warehouse
during the 24th International Playwright Festival,
the play will be performed in English for the first
time in UK at Theatro Technis.
Ticket price £ 10
Dates: 27th, 28TH, 29th, 30th May
Performance time: 8 pm.
The monologue Manoli…! is the story of a mother who lost her only son during the coup which took place in Cyprus at the15th of July 1974, just before the Turkish invasion. Years later she is still waiting for the trial and punishment of the killers. A dialogue-monologue with the only creature who is still listening to her, her cat. A dialogue with us? Or at the end just a monologue?
“Manoli…!” was produced in Cyprus and in other countries:
- 1987 Theatro Tecnhis in London with Maroulla Evgeniou. Director Giorgos Evgeniou
- 1988 State Television of Cyprus with Despina Bebedeli. Director Maria Avraamidou
- 1989 State Theatre of Cyprus with Despina Bebedeli. Director Nicos Charalambous
Guest performance in the festival “Theatre in the Suitcase” in Sofia and in many towns of Greece
- 1996 Municipal Theatre of Serres (Greece) with Efi Oikonomou. Director Giorgos Siskos
- 1997 Theatre am Alsergrund in Vienna with Agorita Bakali. Director Emilios Charalambides
- 1999 Municipal Theatre of Kalamata Greece with Aliki Alexandraki. Director Nicos Charalambous
- 2002 Monodrama Festival during the Cultural Olympiad with Despina Bebedeli. Director Giannis Ioannides.
This production was invited and performed to the festival “Fiesta di liberazione” in Venice
- 2008 in Athens with Anna Fonsou. Director Kostas Vagianos
The play was also produced in Germany for radio broadcasting in Radio DDR 1988 and for WDR 1989. In 2000 in Ireland’s National Broadcaster
The German translation was the libretto of a Chamber Opera (music by Vasos Argyrides) which was performed 1990 in Pfalztheter Kaiserlautern (director Michael Leinert- with mezzo-soprano Jane Casselman) and in 1992 in the Music Academy in Hamburg (director Luiz Claudio da Sylva with mezzo-soprano Sabine Schmidt-Kirchner)
LUCY CHRISTOFI CHRISTY
Born in London and graduated from Rose Bruford School of Speech&Drama attaining a BA Degree in Drama and Theatre Studies. She is a qualified Theatre in Education Practitioner and attended RADA for TV training.
For Cyprus, she played the lead for stage and then for CyBC TV Series – Kato stes Teratsies directed by Maroulla Avraamidou and George Evgeniou. Appeared in the feature films by Costas Demetriou, The Road to Ithaka, Panicos Chrysanthou’s Akamas, which won Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
UK TV work includes: The Bill, Bubbles, Newsnight – playing Cruella De Ville. Appearances in many short films, more recently – Shler Murdochy’s The Gift, Lou Panteli’s Sea Urchins and An Unsuitable Boy which Lucy also co-produced and won an award at the London Greek Film Festival 2008. Played the lead in Vicki Psarias Broken winning the UK Channel 4 Talent Award, shown on CyBC, touring worldwide and opened the 2008 LA Harbor Film Festival.
Voice work includes: BBC’s Sunburn, House of Cards, John Madden’s Captain Corellis Mandolin, Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Phydilla Lloyds’ Mamma Mia! and more.
She has worked with many theatre companies: Soho Theatre, Lyric, Albany Empire, Jermyn Street, Southwark Playhouse, Icarus Productions, Edinburgh Festival in roles including Beatrice, A View from a Bridge, Ms Rosenblum, This Islands Mine, Goddess Athena, Ajax by Sophocles, Jocasta, Oedipus and others. She has worked extensively for Theatro Technis in Greek and English.
Previously, she worked with Theatro Ena at Croydon Warehouse Playwriting Festival, directed by Andreas Christodoulides in Blue Whale and by George Savvides in the English version of Golgia.
She is soon to start work on the feature film Ghosthunters.con.