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The Loan
by Jordi Galceran
The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC)
presented two performances of the play
The
Loan
, a comedy by the Catalan playwright Jordi
Galceran in a production of the Greek theatre
group “Neos Kosmos”, in its Main Stage, Evis
Gavrielides Auditorium on 16 and 17 May 2017.
There are only two characters in this story,
a man who has come to ask for a €3,000
loan and a bank manager. The beauty and
suspense of the game, however, comes from
how the positions change of the extortionist
and the side that gives in, of the master of
the situation and the one who is in a bind.
Needless to say, this duel is not held using
force – no, everything remains in the form of a
conversation behind a desk. Yet nevertheless,
fates are reversed! The manipulator’s best
accomplice is naturally the other person’s
fear. Feed fear with the necessary words,
give it sufficient material and it will evoke all
manner of possible and impossible dreadful
pictures before a person’s eyes and help to
make the person believe that they are true.
Translation: Els de Paros
Directed by: Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Pantelis
Detakis
Music: Phivos Delivorias
Set design-costumes: Magdalene Avgerinou
Lighting: Sakis Birbilis
Assistant directors: Katerina Lypiridou,
Katerina Panayiotaki
Actors:Michalis Economou,Yiannis Sarakatsanis
About Jordi Galceran
Jordi Galceran was born on March 5, 1964 in
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain as Jordi Galceran i
Ferrer. He is a writer and actor, best known for
his work
Fragile
(2005),
The Method
(2005)
and
Palabras encadenadas
(2003).
His massively successful work
The Gronholm
Method
(2003) has been translated into many
languages and has been brought to the stage
in 20 different countries with great success,
including Cyprus in 2012-2013, when it was
directed by Diagoras Chronopoulos.
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