7 Quests

COLLECTIVE PROJECT | 7 QUESTS – THE STORY OF GREECE THROUGH THE RED CROSS QUESTS

Roula Georgakopoulou, Stefanos Dandolos, Akis Dimos, Giorgos Skambardonis, Giannis Tsiros, Makis Tsitas, Thanasis Heimonas

7 Quests is a multifaceted work, a publication with backbone, with texts that are poetic and/or realistic, in search of the identities of people from one end of Greece to the other. 7 playwrights recount the history of Greece through the radio broadcasts of the Red Cross. A Greece that belongs to the Middle East, the civil war, emigration to Germany, the ‘disappeared’ of Cyprus, the prosperity of the 1990s, contemporary urban isolation. 7 one-act texts by our important contemporary writers -- Akis Dimos, Roula Georgakopoulou, Stefanos Dandolos, Giorgos Skambardonis, Giannis Tsiros, Makis Tsitas, and Thanasis Heimonas – form a portrait of Greece from the 1920s to the present. 7 separate texts, 7 sensational stories, 7 quests: war, emigration, disappearance, captivity, isolation, settling down, loneliness. The twists of historic time, as it unfolds, where the then meets the now, the panorama of the historic ups and downs of the post-war years and the human histories that coincide with the great events of Greece’s modern history. The ‘little’ human stories inside the greater History. An attempt to pinpoint a human path, with the aim of discovering our identity, the restoration of meaning to our relationships with ‘the other’ and finally the search for our social persona.