Theoni Skaleri

Stories of ordinary people living in a neighborhood of Athens below the Acropolis.

The adventures of a vulture, an exquisite, handsome and particularly charming man who loves and is loved too much by women.

Olga and Stefos, two seemingly mismatched people, since she is a writer and he is a taxi driver and an old, as well as unlucky in his life actor, are plundered by their families. Abandoned by their own one Christmas, drowned by the feeling of a torturous loneliness, they meet. A customer in his taxi, she asks him to set off without a destination. They arrive at the sea. They see a tavern, she asks him to accompany her and have a drink together. Thus begins their story. They lean on each other. They feel alive again, they feel full, young. But the plunderers are lurking. They will learn, they will slander and they will demand their gains again. In vain. Olga and Stefos, have caught the sun of their lives and will not leave it anymore. It is in his west, but it is theirs.

The play is a farce that follows the attempts of a spendthrift couple living in debt to get out of financial trouble by keeping the entire amount of an unexpected inheritance without giving anything to their creditors. Unbelievable disguises, entanglements, and twists go hand in hand with physical and verbal gags, mainly from the protagonist. There are many good laughs with the protagonist's sudden entrances. First, Tsivilikas hangs from the ceiling, covered in gunpowder, then Tsivilikas bursts in wearing a sombrero as a Mexican cousin and sings Baila morena, then appearing dressed in rags because he lost his clothes in the river, and later still dressed as a monk with a belly from fasting too much.