Following the railway tracks

Dionysos Theatre will stage the play The Rails Behind Me by Greek actor Haris Romas and directed by Alexia Papalazarou until May 22.

Easter week may not be made for extravagant fun but with this play, you won’t have to worry about that because Romas will lead us on the railway tracks that brought the main character, Thales, to the state of isolation he now finds himself in.

Thales is at the train station, waiting to meet his wife who is about to take off with her lover. As he waits for her to explain why things turned out the way they did, he remembers his life so far, faces from his past and fragments of what has come to pass.

He remembers his first crush that rejected him, a teacher he was afraid of, his mean aunt, and the class clown who always used to follow him around.

Reflecting on scenes from an entire lifetime, Thales realises he has always been average at everything and he is just an average man, not good, not bad, just average. But will this realisation keep him on the same track or will he change trains?

The Rails Behind Me
Performance of the play by Haris Romas. Until May 22. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm and 6.30pm on Sunday. €15/12/10. In Greek. Tel: 22-818999

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