The Challenging Tide

by Stavros Lillitos

directed by George Eugeniou

Tickets £8 Concs £6

This UK world premiere by Greek Cypriote writer Stavros Lillitos, (1919-1972) depicts an epic tale set in the 1930’s and last unstill the German occupation in WWII. Here we experience Greek Tragedy at its best.

A cruel family betrayal leads to the death of both Uncle and Nephew and neither finds comfort in the Church nor in the State. "The Challenging Tide is a depressingly beautiful tale of a family torn apart by political events in Greece" (Barbie Papalios)

The Challenging Tide is not only about how Greek people suffered unfair treatments and were arrested or shot to death for their beliefs, it deals with more than Metaxas' dictatorship in 1936, the German occupation (1941-44) and the civil war that followed. Lillitos questions man’s relationships with himself and the world around him while highlights the hypocrisy of, “might is right”.