«IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS WAIT FOR ME?»
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A city, a community, a war, a ghetto, a displacement, a farewell, a promise for an uncertain meeting after the return to a place that may no longer exist. Houses that suddenly were left abandoned, families who were split and crammed into trains to an unknown destination. Hands that didn't have time to hug, caress, say goodbye. A tribute to the citizens of emptied cities. At night the breeze brings their voices and songs to the neighbourhoods where they once lived. My mother’s stories about the extermination of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community in 1943, including several of her friends, met Leon Saltiel’s book "Don't forget me"- Letters of three Jewish mothers to their sons from the ghetto of Thessaloniki. It struck me to the heart, like everyone who has read it. The letters of Sarina Saltiel to her son Maurice who was studying in Athens, became the base of this piece that aims to give a human face and a voice to those who perished. 

 

Concept / Direction / Choreography: Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl
Music: 2nd string quartet op. 13 by Felix Mendelssohn
Set / Costume design: Elena Katsouri
Lighting: George Lazoglou

Texts: extracts from the book "Don't forget me" - Letters of three Jewish mothers to their sons from the ghetto of Thessaloniki, curated by Leon Saltiel
Translation: Eleni Saltiel

Narrator: Vasilis Vasilakis
Fusionia Quartet: Marios Ioannou (violin), Savvas Lagou (violin), Sorin Alexandru Horlea (viola), Robert Grod (cello)
Dance / co-creation: Maria Chrysostomou, Paulina Ioannou, Vicky Kalla, Aneesha Michael

Graphic design: Ernst Lindahl
Photo George Stylianou

 

Production: Asomates Dynameis with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Terpsichore 2020, the Rialto Theatre and the Pallas Theatre.
The performance is also supported by the Embassy of Israel in Cyprus, in the context of the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the State of Israel and the Republic of Cyprus.

 

Camera: Giorgos Stylianou, Editing: Giorgos Stylianou / Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl