SPRING
Youla Boudali
Is there a distinctly male and a distinctly female “destiny”? Are there innate proclivities and talents? Are hard science, mechanical engineering, architecture, or pharmaceutics appropriate for a girl? Spring of 1960, Missolonghi. A group of girls’ school students marches on the city streets, protesting the founding of a Vocational Boys’ Gymnasium that will exclude girls from science courses. A story of women who were born immediately after WWII in an insular, provincial town and envisioned equality with men. Girls whose agency was unusual at the time, and is still unusual today, as gender roles continue to define the dominant national narrative, superficial shifts notwithstanding. An original performance based on actual (and actually Greek) events.
CREDITS
Written and directed by
Youla Boudali
Dramaturgy
Vasiliki Lazaridou
First assistant to the director
Maria Gioni
Second assistant to the director
Myrto Rozaki
Set design
Konstantinos Kotsis
Lighting design
Tasos Palaioroutas
Costume design
Marli Aleiferi
Music
John Tsallas, Kostas Zampos
Recorded texts
Panagiotis Papachristopoulos, Thanos Tokakis
Make up artist
Evi Zafiropoulou
Photos
Myrto Tzima
Poster design
Μaria Giarmeniti
Cast
Vangelio Andreadaki, Athina Balta, Marianna Bozantzoglou, Eli Driva, Vassilis Karampoulas, Erietta Kelly, Christina Kypraiou, Fotini Papachristopoulou, Zoe Sigalou
Executive production
LEFOU PRODUCTIONS (Vasia Attarian, Serafeim Radis)
Special thanks to
Thanasis Vassios (Education Museum of Agios Dimitrios), Andreas Stefanidis (President of the Board at the Ifaistos Educational Association of Athens) and the Missolonghi General State Archives
Co-financed by Greece and the European Union
