Interview
Loukia Machalopoulou in a discussion about her new collaboration at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus
Loukia Michalopoulou is co-starring this year with Reni Pittaki and Karyophyllia Karabetti in E.Albie's "3 Tall Women" at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, directed by the internationally renowned American director R. Wilson and she talks to me about this great collaboration.
It's a very special play linear and circular at the same time, spontaneously that's what I feel like saying. The heroines in the first act are three who move each other vertically, one almost pushing the other, while in the second act the three become one, the same woman at different ages, cyclically Albi plays with time.. literally plays... as if in a dream in reality.
Tell me about your heroine.
I am C the younger self of B and A...she ironizes, reacts, is surprised, protests, is shocked and yet hopes...and while she learns of her dark future she stubbornly continues to hope, to wait, to seek happiness.
What was it like working with Robert Wilson?
Very great experience, a seminar mainly on how to listen, how to listen to the body, the stage objects, how to listen to the other person, the space, the music, how to be silent...it's a great honor, as well as working with Reni Pittaki and Karyophyllia Karampeti a lesson in generosity and discipline.
Tell me about the elements that inspired Albie to write the play and the characters.
Albee in the play is mainly inspired by his foster mother from the obstacles he too experienced as a teenager to accept him, to accept his differences.
Comment on the encounter between the younger man and the older man in the play.
In the first act this generational clash is very intense how one generation is unable to connect with the other to have a dialogue, but in the second act it is touching how the distance of time unites them.
Through the three women, do all the fears we have as human beings come through?
Through the 3 women we see fears yes, but we also see dreams and experiences, we see a whole life that has all colors.
What moment in your life is the one you look back on as Lucia?
I look back on the moment when I was unaware of decay, of death...the moment when you feel immortal...I don't know when that moment was I don't remember but I hope it existed.