THE ACTIVE SPECTATOR
2015
The Active Spectator is a performance co-created by the actor and the twelve spectators/participants who are guided to participate and play in the different fictional situations proposed during the show. The actor uses the participants’ actions and reactions as material for the performance. Sudden transformations soon become the common code for everyone in the room. The different characters that Ioannou embodies are inspired by reallife characters, and therefore, there is an underlying commentary on society. The piece challenges the active spectators to deal with several situations, often flirting with the limits of their personal values.
Credits
Concept, Direction, Costume: Lia Haraki
Actor, Performer, Devising Artist: Marios Ioannou
Text: Lia Haraki, Marios Ioannou
Supporting Performer: Antonis Liveropoulos
Photography: Pavlos Vrionides
Production: The Performance Shop Limassol
Performances
Premiere: November 2015-February 2016, The Performance Shop, Limassol, Cyprus
19, 21 December 2017, Pop Up Festival, Theatro Polis OPAP, Nicosia, Cyprus
July 2018, The Performance Shop, Athens, Cyprus
Press