“Paradise” isn’t just another performance – it’s a scathing planetary evacuation alert. Don’t try to help anyone else. Think only of yourselves. You know you can.

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Look to the future, because that’s where this performance is coming to you from. Presented for the first time in Greece, Austrian playwright Thomas Köck’s award-winning “Klimatrilogie” (“Climate Trilogy”) – a tragicomic, charged, and outraged requiem – talks bluntly about the loss of planet Earth. In her “Paradise”, Katerina Giannopoulou imagines a not-so-distant future where the remnants of Western civilization rewrite their own history and urge us to laugh at the tragedy of our situation.

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“Paradise” is like an episode of a post-apocalyptic dystopian television series, yet is also a raging political farce that takes us on a journey from the Amazon to Athens, from the 19th century to the 22nd, and from faith in civilization to the admission of crimes committed in its name.