Narcissus
A katavasia based on an ancient Egyptian parable, the texts of Hryhoriy Skovoroda and irmoses
- Director: Volodymyr Kuchynsky
- Set Design: Vlod Kaufman
- Costumes: Natalia Shymin
Narcissus is focused on Skovoroda’s idea that the Bible is a symbolic world which can only be understood allegorically. The actor’s performances substantiate Skovoroda's contention that one has to play a symbolic view of the Bible cannot be doomed to wallow in either superstition or atheism.
The irmos is the initial verse of each individual ode in a canon, sung by the choir; from the Greek verb "to tie" or "to link". The irmos presents a pattern for all of the troparia which follow within a given ode. It also gives its name to the irmologic forms of Byzantine chant.
A katavasia (pl. katavasiae, from the Greek katabaino, "go down") is the concluding hymn of an ode of a canon. The most commonly used katavasiae are taken from the irmoi of the canons of feast days. The katavasia takes its name from the practice of the choir coming down from the kliroi on either side of the church and singing this hymn in the center of the church.
CAST:
- Narcissus: Andriy Vodychev
- Luca: Oleh Stephan
- Cleopa: Mykola Bereza
- Philon: Tamara Gorgisheli, Maria Kopytchak
- Pamva: Oleksiy Kravchuk, Orest Sharak
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
- Running time: 1:20
- Setup time: 2 hours
- Rehearsal time: 2hours
- Dismantle time: 2 hours
- Lights: 20 overhead
- Number of Actors: 5
- Technical and Artistic Staff: 3 (total number of participants 8)
- Theatre Space requirements: Italian Theatre with good acoustics
