“The Lathe” by Yannis Centrotas is a bitter comedy, an acute social commentary on everyday violence. A deeply tragic work, with surreal elements and more black than comic, “The Lathe” draws its material from contemporary Greek reality, spins it through 8 scenes, penetrates, becomes entangled and explodes in front of us. Like a small accident, in a small machine shop, which ran into thin air. As a little joke or as a joke. The life of Alexis. The life of a boy who grows up in the warmth of a traditional family on the outskirts of a Greek city and tries to find his footing to stand with pride and optimism in the vicissitudes of life. The work was written during the last decade of the Greek and international economic and political crisis and is presented for the second time.