A voice from beyond the grave

By Maria Gregoriou

It seems the stage is one of the only places left where real life stories can be told on a personal level. One such story will be staged on Monday and Tuesday at the Rialto theatre in Limassol.

Katerina, a play based on the book of the same name by Greek author Auguste Corteau, is a look into the life of the writer’s bipolar mother.

The story begins with Katerina committing suicide. It starts at the end, and from the end Katerina begins to narrate her doomed life story and tells us that her son found her “on a Friday morning, five days before he became 24. He saw that she [I] had died.”

A story filled with medicines, pills, a husband and a son, love and hatred, homosexuality, self-sarcasm, humour, intertwined with pain and affection.

Yiorgos Nanouris adapts and directs Katerina with Lena Papaligoura in the leading role.

Auguste Corteau: Katerina
The real story of the writer’s bipolar mother. November 2-3. Rialto theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15/12. Tel: 77-777745

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