GOLFO'S MONOLOGUES
Date: 24 May 2025
Hour: 21:00
Venue: Aigio Multicenter Conference Hall
Admission free
Texts by: Nikoletta Maltezou, Panoraia Balafa, Maria-Aliki Christodoulopoulou, Sophia-Kleopatra Neou, Angeliki Kourtesopoulou, Myrto Karavousanou, Kyriakos Nassos-Americanos, Angeliki Pitt
Direction: Anna Gourzi, Τheatrologist
Music by: Christos Magalioulis (guitar, vocals), Eleni Seferi (piano)
Actors (Theatre Group - Ionios Quinta): Despina Doulgeraki, Katerina Karvela, Vasiliki Karveli, Michalaki Fai, Roumeliotis Giannis, Patrinelli Anna.
"Golfo’s Monologues" was born out of a playwriting workshop at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, as a dialogue between young people and the Spyridon Peresiadis' play Golfo. Using the monologue form, the young writers—through their own perspectives—sought to find the heroine Golfo in both the past and the present.
Yanna Roilou
Head of the Workshop at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras
Director's Note
Eight contemporary monologues bring the myth of Golfo into the present, illuminating the inner lives of both women and men as they grapple with memory, longing, and regret. In this reimagining, Golfo is no longer confined to a romanticized past; she becomes a shared voice—for all who mourn love betrayed, or love lost.
Rather than dismantling the myth, our contemporary setting rebuilds it with a modern pulse: bold, raw, and honest. Live music flows alongside the text, echoing the emotional rhythm of the characters and underscoring the enduring resonance of their feelings.
Our minimalist set design focuses on emotional symbolism. A few carefully chosen objects evoke memory and internal struggle, allowing the actors’ voices and physicality to take center stage. The performers’ bare feet symbolize a conscious return to the ground—to truth, pain, and presence, stripped of societal masks.
With our amateur theatre group, Ionios Quinta, working with the dedication and integrity of professionals under the auspices of the Association of Kefalonians and Ithakians of Aigialia – Kalavryta, we have created a theatrical space where the personal becomes universal—and the lament of lost love becomes a call for honesty, accountability, and transformation.
We hope our Golfo speaks not only of what has been lost—but also of what might still be saved.
Anna Gourzi
Theatrologist – Director
