On the warm and rainy night of 7 July 1994, a 44-year-old woman suffered a tragic accident. Losing control of the moped she was riding, this woman was seriously injured when she fell on a sharp object lying on the tarmac that pierced her liver. She was immediately taken to hospital, in a coma. All the days she was there, the man she loved more than anything else in her life was constantly by her side. A man of 62, plump and in good health. Each night, the man would lay down and sleep alongside her on the hospital bed. For those few hours, until dawn, it seemed like they were both in a coma, or like they were both just sleeping. The night nurses never woke him, they would only cover him up if some foot of his slipped out from under the white hospital blanket. This is the final conversation between the organs and limbs of the man and woman’s bodies, as recorded by medical equipment a little before she died of a heart attack on 18 July 1994. This re- enactment of the conversation stays completely faithful to the one that actually took place.

Libretto: Efthimis Filippou Direction: Angeliki Papoulia Christos Passalis Music Dramaturgy: Angelica Castello Angeliki Papoulia Christos Passalis Tom Pauwels Diederik Peeters Michael Schmid Set Design: Clio Boboti Costumes: Vasileia Rosana Light Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou Production Manager: Maria Dourou Filming Editing: The Boy Photos: Andreas Simopoulos

Performers: Angelica Castello Angeliki Papoulia Christos Passalis Tom Pauwels Diederik Peeters Michael Schmid Guest Appearance: Yorgos Stefanakos Maria Dourou

Production: National Opera / Ictus Ensemble

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