In 480 BC, Leonidas decided to not abandon the battle against the King of the Persians.
In 1836, Texan revolutionaries were besieged for thirteen days at Fort Alamo by Mexican troops.
In 2013, members of the Golden Dawn organization laid laurels under the statue of Leonidas in Sparta.
In 2021, the Capitol of the United States of America was invaded by supporters of the outgoing president.
These events have a common point, they are united by the same motto: Molon Labe, come and take them.
Embodiment of courage and emancipation, this adage supposedly pronounced 2500 years ago, has survived through the ages to become a symbol of Greek, European and American far-right movements of today.
How has an ancient incantation over the centuries become a flag in different struggles in various parts of the world, even across different centuries? Why do we seek to appropriate the slogans of the past to involve ourselves in the present’s fights? What are the links that unite us in our desire to act and defend our vision of the world? What does the word “resistance” mean today?
Poetically and politically, the Nolom Ebal/Νωλομ Εβαλ project attempts to answer these questions by exploring individual stories within collective destinies. The show questions the presence and commitment of each when it comes to facing the disorder of the world, telling the battles, big and small, of men and women. And tries, even for the instant of theater, not to surrender.

Text & stage direction : Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
With : Titos Grigoropoulos, Denia Mimerini, Orphée de Corbière-Kalessis
Scenography & costumes : Myriam Rhziyel
Technical & artistic assistant : Martha Kotsia
Original composition : Jonas Roth

Support & production : Mnemosyne Theater, Institut français d’Athènes, Kallirois Theater

CALENDAR
Kallirois Theater / Athens : 15 october – 26 november 2024