Antiqence Theatre Company and MONKS Theater Company present award-winning English writer Simon Stevens' play Blindsided at the Amalia Theatre. The play, a punk love story set in turbulent England in 1979, is staged in Greece for the first time, translated and directed by Yiannis Mavropoulou. Stockport, 1979: Shortly after the heavy strike “Winter of Discontent” and just before the election that will see the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, a love is born in the “Rubbish” that floods the streets of the small working class, but also of all of the country, due to the strike mobilizations of the land surveyors. Kathy, a seventeen-year-old single mother, falls madly in love with John, a notorious burglar. Her dream, to change her miserable life. But life has other plans for her. Twists, energy and a dizzying punk rhythm, in a love story true and hard, between people who yearn to connect in order to survive in a society on the brink of destruction, perhaps not much different from ours. “The government is changing and that's something. We will never make the same mistakes again.” A wonderful work by the great Simon Stevens, one of the most important contemporary English writers (Olivier Award for Best New Play 2006 and 2013, Tony Award for Best Play 2015), translated and staged for the first time in Greece. A violent, fiercely romantic but also funny story, full of twists and emotions.