SYNOPSIS
GREEK CIVIL WAR
THE BATTLE OF ATHENS
1946-1949
B΄ WORLD WAR - ΟCCUPASION
NATIONAL RESISTANCE- CIVIL WAR AND
AFTERWARDS
THEATRE-OPERA – NOVEL
DANCE
The deads of Civil War keep olive branch
And a sword.
All knows the cause that the
brother
killed his brother .
The brothers caused hubris
Nearing headlong the Clearance , time of
Judgement .
ALEXANDER
Hunted I resort in the Imaginary Court
Of History.
Fratricidal blood dripping from my hands
I do not know what to do,
Furies were following me everywhere.
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RAPSODOS
The rebel forces besieged the camp Makriyannis
Opponents are so close that chat with
each other .
The two brothers Alexander and Aris War
as Opponents
In different camps .
CHATZIGIANNIS - CAPTAIN
Alexander together with companions
Take positions on the rear side of
building,
She is almost unguarded.
SOTIRIOU - HEAD CONSTABLES
Ari will go to the back gate
It is the weak point .
From there they will try
Enter in with assault.
ALL TOGETHER
He began a fratricidal war
JOCASTA ALEXANDER - MOTHER
My two children are killed each other
They fight for their ideas , political .
Alas comes big bad
With what Iove we grew up
One was a great composer
And another great writer.
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NIKOS ALEXANDROU - FATHER
Little before start the war
I put swore
They will not fight against each
other.
ROXANNE SCOTT BRITISH
Fighting on the side of Allies
What I want to speak to them
I met Aris in the Middle
East
And organized the return to Greece
We lived a great love in Egypt
I met Alexander at Herodium ,
Enchanted from his music
I fell in love at first sight.
ALEXANDER AND ROXANNE
ROXANNE SCOTT
Whenever I come to Attica
reborn .
The smell of saltiness and sweetness of
vines
Smell the aroma made from lemon
flowers
And cherry , pine and thyme .
ALEXANDER
Holy rock and Parthenon reflect
the miracle .
Acropolis was built at ground zero
,
In the center of Omega .
ROXANNE SCOTT
Οccupying- Athens of civil war is wildest
from Dante's Inferno.
We need to find the source of
Civil War
This will reveal to us the unknown
secrets ,
Why became Agreement of Varkizas .
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ALEXANDER
Filled Athens
Carrying the deads in carts.
Legendary city was occupied by Tyranny
The bite of snake is leathal.
Occupation was a Purgatory
Purify the souls but also revealed the
Beast in Man ,
The screams , the wails , cries they
covered the city noise .
ROXANNE
Alexander
Twilight of Athens
If reigns also the death,
Exists untold transparency .
I feel so free
I am so happy with you .
ALEXANDER
they riddle us with blasts, they throw
merciless
Come on into the Lyric- Opera ,
It is the safest place
No one will look .
I listen music Caste Diva
Germans and Italians love opera .
ROXANNE
The Requiem of Love in Athens
Return to Lost Paradise .
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ARIS - IN THE CAMP
Alexander we born not to provoke hatred
But reconciliation.
What is a hero - what Antihero
ALEXANDER - OUTSIDE THE CAMP
Valkyries heard threatening
Bring death .
Europeans fascists drowned in blood the
world
They abolished the parliament , the
Constitution .
JOCASTA- MOTHER
Darkened Athens
My two children Alexander and Aris
They fight opponents in Makrygianni .
I run to catch
Did you happen to Fatal .
ROXANNE
Cruel fate wanted to fall in love , the
two brothers
Torn my soul , whom to choose .
IOKASTI
Ah unfortunate you do not know
Who you take for your husband.
ARIS AND ROXANNE
HEADQUARTERS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST
ROXANNE
Ari what fate to be together I do not
believed.
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ARIS
Enslaved Greece
ROXANNE
All together we fight for a free world.
I live a beautiful dream
War , death they awoke in me the love
for life ,
Lygri the nostalgia of Return .
The light of Deserted litted up the lost
love
I die for you .
ARIS
Roxanne - Roxanne
I'm dying for you
Love affair took off the mask of death.
Nothing will not separate us
Forget my brother Alexander
He wants to marry you.
ROXANNE
I met Alexander before you
I did not know that you are brothers .
We lived a great romance in Athens
But go over, now I'm with you.
ARIS
I am madly in love
You must spoke with Alexis
This divides the family.
ROXANNE
Ari pyramids are not far
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To finish Codes .
Only a miracle save us from the
chaos of war .
ARIS
Partisans fighting Night Day the
conquerors .
ROXANNE
In Market of Al Khalil you find what you
want .
ARIS
The ring of Al- Khalil
It reminds you of a great love
I never I did not felt such love .
ROXANNE
Only Love , I die for you
The end of war is not far.
DANCE
Furies secreting fate of people
Formidable the man, who terrible no
other.
We are mortally in danger
Only a exit saves to us
Only one exit saves us
The back door was left unguarded .
ALEXIOU-LEFT
Alexander
Aris is in the back door
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You will come face-to-face.
ATHANASSIOU-RIGHT
Ari
Alexander is the back gate
You are mortally in danger.
ALEXANDER
Brother kills brother
With his own hands.
ARIS
The greatest time of war
The Greeks fight each other.
ALEXANDER
Ari you hear me
Only you I trust
I'm going out.
ARIS
Proceed on neutral ground
Talk to the clearing.
ALEXANDER
Ari how you changed
What makes our mother, our father
ARIS
Well-well
I am careful to them
You became a true revolutionary.
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brother
how unfair is this war .
ALEXANDER
Ari we changed
We promised in our parents
How will not beat whatever if it happens
.
to reconcile
We are loved brothers .
ARIS
Alexander you are my brother
We must conciliate ,
We will not be killed unjustly
will be great carnage in Makrygianni .
I propose a fair solution of
Constitutional
Let become elections and whoever gains.
ALEXANDER
Without Violence and Rigging
Honest and not withparastate. .
ARIS - ALEXANDER
We are Equal - Same - Fair
Although different.
ALEXANDER
Ari
The Greeks will not agree
They are hard, determined.
ARIS - WHISPER
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Maybe we save the situation by fleeing.
There will not be killed because of us
Maybe we give an example and
reconciled.
LEFT
Night left the two brothers
They will be killed from each
other.
RIGHT
They want us be saved
ALL TOGETHER
Time to reconcile
ALEXANDER
Ari Run - hurry
Let's go to the Acropolis , to Herodion.
ARIS
Be hidden little
Bring in contact the Government, the
Allies
With the rebels, the government of
Mountain.
ARIS - ALEXANDER
I be believed that they will be
reconciled.
In the haunted building of Makrygiannis
Our brothers killed wild .
ARIS
Alexis looked back , blinding light
The camp Makrygiannis
Got fire .
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ALEXANDER
They shook the building in the air , had
a lot of ammunition
It was a powder keg .
Voices , go to help.
ARIS
All together blown
Nobody was spared
Alone we !
ARIS - ALEXANDER
The Holocaust of Makrygiannis
ARIS
Fortunately the father , mother, Roxanne
is in good hands
ALEXANDER
What thing, what happened with Roxane
ARIS
We came together from the Middle East
We prepared the Plans of Return .
ALEXANDER
Is mixing with operations against our
ARIS
Choose camp long before
Now we are with me.
brother
Roxanne is my woman
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We lived big love in the Middle East .
ALEXANDER
I can not believe what I hear
It looks crazy , absurd ,
What absurd and from the Civil War.
He said that I'm the man of her life
How he loved me .
APH
Alexander should know
Do not nourish delusions.
ALEXANDER
How could you done something
You knew how I loved her,
I proposed marriage .
ARIS
Was not wedded you
She chose me
Discussing they arrived at Herodion,
they came in.
And began to walk on stage looking at
licenses bleachers .
They shouted loud and gestured.
ARIS
Here in this magical theater I went up
my projects
We are together - remember !
For them I fight for a free world .
ALEXANDER
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At Herodium the best theater of world
I uploaded my Symphony's, operas , songs
.
You were together - remember !
I die for this place
For these wars to an open democracy.
VOICES OF FANTASTIC SPECTATORS
The end of the Civil War
The End of Tyranny
ALEXANDER
The madness of war does not leave
margins
Roxanne hear me !
Mourning does not suit us .
ARIS
Roxanne defeated Eros
Dying for You .
ALEXANDER
Ari
put down the gun
will do no harm
Mars shoots in the air
ARIS
No one can not
tell me what to do .
Lunged at Alexander saying
Fought bravely
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What rebel you are.
ALEXANDER
The Tragic Mania conquered your mind
Ari calmed down back off .
The deads are thousands
They do not need another one.
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TO HERODION- ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS-
ACROPOLIS
JOCASTA - MOTHER
Niko - Roxanne
Run - quickly
Our children maybe they suffered
something
Maybe we catch the evil and save them .
ROXANNE
They went to Herodion
Be inside .
JOCASTA
If
they duel
They will be killed.
NIKOS ALEXANDROU - FATHER
They are both - the same brave lads
Never
make it back.
ROXANNE - JOCASTA - NIKOS
ALEXANDROU
Woe - woe
What happened - what happened
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This is the fate of Persons.
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ALL TOGETHER
This is the Democracy of big time
This is the Story
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NIKOS KOLESIS
