"Good Night Margarita" by Gerasimos Stavrou

Playwright: Gerasimos Stavrou

Directors: Thodoris Petropoulos & Phytos Stratis

Directed by Theodoros Petropoulos and Phyto Stratis, the play was under the auspices of Consulate General of Greece New York and a percentage of the productions sales benefitted the Greek Division of the Ronald McDonald House.

Now a classic, Gerasimos Stavrou’s “Κalinichta Margarita”, based on Dimitri Hadzis’ short story “Margarita Perdikari” is a true story about life of a teacher from Ioannina, Greece during the years of the Nazi cccupation of Greece. The production, which began at a railroad station, with the return from Athens of Margarita—the hope of her family—after her graduation as a teacher, was so good, two people told the GN enthusiastically at the last performance, that they bought tickets to see it twice.

They were right. The 15-member cast—award-winning actors, composers, directors and musicians among them—proved once again that Greek actors are worthy inheritors of Greece’s legacy of ancient theatre, completely drawing the audience, seated in a semi-circle around the scene of action, into the deep texture of family relationships, the breakdown of character under oppression, the moving nature of passionate beliefs, and the upending, by war, of a generation’s potential for happiness.