Performing
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Proper Time
A Solo Improvisation Performance based on methodology developed during MFA Practice Research ‘ Performing Time’.
Original work Created, Devised and performed by Marilena Sitaropoulou
Sound designer: Calum Perrin Lynn
Performed at Camden People’s Theatre, Crave festival, June 2019.
Night Out
A devised Solo Performance discussing the struggles of a girl that has recently moved to another country. Confidence, insecurities, and judgment are some of the themes mentioned. What's the role of social media? Will the process of preparing for a night out be as fun as it sounds?
Original work Created, Devised and performed by Marilena Sitaropoulou
Sound designer: Calum Perrin Lynn
Producer: Georgia Pantazopoulou
Performed at Theatre 503, Catalyst festival, July 2018.
DOLEO (ergo sum)
A dance theatre with live music performance. A taste of live music, Voguing, Butoh and folk, all blended into an endless dream of pain.
Emotions meet beauty, beauty meets pain, pain meets pills.Lady has finally been diagnosed, and she is haunted by opposing desires to survive. Do you feel pity for her? What more can she do to get your attention?
Concieved by Hortense Le Guillou
Performed by Nadja Mattioli, Marilena Sitaropoulou and Maroussia Frank
Music composed by Matteo Ciminari
Photos by Thomas Hensher
Performed at Bunker Theatre, London, 2019
Movement Direction
TALK PROPA
TALK PROPA is a celebration of all things northern. Two women from across the north of England explore their relationship with their accents and the prejudice they’ve faced as a result. Featuring music from the one and only Cheryl, queen of the North, these lasses take on the stereotypes they are constantly reduced to (with a cuppa tea in hand of course).
Created by SHYBAIRN
Directed by - Caitlin Evans
Produced by - SHYBAIRN + Caitlin Evans
Performed by - Hannah Clifford + Rebecca Charlton
Assistant Producer - Becky Jones
Movement Direction and Choreography- Marilena Sitaropoulou
Designer - Nic Farr
Sound Design - Becky Jones
Photography + Video Design - Hugo Bainbridge
Performed at The Vault Festival, London, 2020.
Directing
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The Last Poem of Summer
An adaptation based on Suddenly Last Summer by T. Williams
Sebastian is given the chance to reveal the truth about his life and death by engaging in a conversation with the two most important women of his life his mother and his cousin.
Directed, Movement Directed by: Marilena Sitaropoulou
Cast: Pantelis Mavromatis, Nadja Mattioli, Stelios Troulakis, Natasha Sharma
Lighting Designers: Ioni Moschovakou and Katerina Pentea
Performed for Directing Festival- Advanced Directing Course,The American College of Greece, 2016
The Lesson
A physical performance inspired by the characters of "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker.
Get immersed into the lives of four seemingly different people and find out what unites them at the end of the day.
Original work Created, Directed, Choreographed by: Marilena Sitaropoulou
Performers:
Alexandros Al-Akaila, Pantelis Mavromatis, Nadja Mattioli, Iony Moschovakou
Extra Performers:
Maria-Nefeli Asimaki, Kaelyn Brandt, Chris Carracher , Niobe Danezis, Eleni-Anna Giasemi, Konstantinos Palaiomitros, Stylianos Troullakis
Assistant Director: Nadja Mattioli
Stage Manager: Georgia Pantazopoulou
Sound Designer: Christos Geidatzis
Lighting Designer: Andriana Georgitsis
Assistant Lighting Designer: Konstantinos Michail
Lightning Technician: Giannis Gerakelis
Performed at The American College of Greece, 2015
Assistant Director & Movement Director
Papadopoulos Musical Workshop
Based on the 2013 indie hit movie Papadopoulos! tells the story of Greek immigrant Harry Papadopoulos, a self-made millionaire who reigns over a food empire. But when the financial crisis hits, and his empire falls, Harry must reluctantly reunite with his estranged freewheeling brother with a proposition; to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Book & Lyrics by Marcus Markou
Director/Dramaturg: Tania Azevedo
Music by John Themis
Musical Direction by Tansy Aked
Movement Direction by Sergio Giacomelli
Assistant Director, Assistant Movement Director: Marilena Sitaropoulou
Cast: Antony Costa, Vas Constanti, Hiba Elchikhe, Andy Owens, Lewis Fernee, Julie Armstrong, Emily Bull, Caroline Kay, Michael Pickering, Johan Munir, Tiran Aakel, Melissa Nettleford.
Performed: 26th November, 2019 - The Other Palace Studio
Crime and Punishment
The Tribe worked on an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, in a taut, razor sharp, award-winning version by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. One of the greatest novels of all time, has been skilfully crystallised into 90 minutes of gripping theatre. The iconic story of a young man living in poverty, driven to murder by his obsession with the idea of the ‘extraordinary man’.
Director - Andrei Biziorek
Assistant Director - Marilena Sitaropoulou
Cast- Benjamin Way, Hattie Seaton, Andrew Laithwaite, Tori Zdovc
Stage Manager - Millie Mack, Set and Costume Design - Sophia Mavromichalis
Lighting Design - Matt Whale , Costume and Set Assistant - Megan Sayers
Performed: June, 2019 - The Cockpit
Teaching
Let’s Talk About Time -
workshop
Original work created based on MFA Practice Research of ‘Performing Time’ by Marilena Sitaropoulou.
This workshop is designed to help students develop practices such as movement for devising and improvisation.
Marilena has taught this workshop for BA and MA drama students from Athens- Deree the American College of Greece, London- RCSSD and North Central College of Chicago.