The Sleeping Woman of Chalepas

🎭 A unique modern Greek play that premiered nationwide at Anemona Theatre in February 2021, in the midst of the pandemic crisis and under strict restrictive measures. Anemona presented, in a national premiere, Irene Marantei's purely biographical play and the tragic fate of the leading Greek sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas, receiving the most laudatory comments from audiences.

💥"The Sleeping Woman of Chalepas" returns from February to the Anemona Theatre stage for a short run of performances, once again bearing the directorial signature of Andreas Tilemachou, who also has overall supervision of the production and plays the emblematic artist, shouldering again the particular weight of a very demanding role✨

EXTENSION: 2 ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES

🔹A chronology that records the "fascinating" life of the legendary visual artist between madness and triumph. Marantei narrates his charming, bitter and enigmatic life and Andreas Tilemachou, through enchanting directorial journeys, follows the titan of sculpture through all his significant "stations", from 1876 when, returning from Munich to Athens, he opens his own studio and begins to work on his most famous classical-period sculpture, the "Sleeping Woman" - which remains the most marvellous sculptural work of modern Athens - up to 1930 when he returns again to Athens after his enforced "exile" in Tinos, while Tilemachou in performance also embodies Chalepas's continuous struggle against discouragement and spiritual abuse, madness and despair..

📜They wrote that Chalepas was "Sculptor of the Soul", "Poet of Marble", they called him "Saint Chalepas", "Artist of Light".

▪️PERFORMANCE CREDITS:

📝🎬 DIRECTION: Andreas Tilemachou

🎨🧱 SET DESIGN: Andreas Tilemachou

👗🧥 COSTUMES: Andreas Tilemachou - Andronikos Orfanou

💡🎇 LIGHTING DESIGN: Vasilis Peteinaris

🖥️ 🎥 VISUAL DESIGNER-VIDEO ART: Anna Fotiadou, Maria Mitsi

🔊🎵 MUSIC SUPERVISION: Andreas Tilemachou

ACTORS:

Andreas Tilemachou, Marinos Xenophontos, Gianna Lefkati, Stefanos Kasapis, Elena Cheileti, Andrea Demetriou, Evagoras Theodosiou, Giorgos Iosif, Stelios Stylianou.

CONSTRUCTION OF ON-STAGE SCULPTURES: ARTEMIS DOULAMIS

LIGHTING-AUDIO OPERATOR: Marilia Konstantinou

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Nikolas Petrou

PAINTING EXECUTION OF THE SET: Martin Mason.

GRAPHICS: Theo Petrou,

MAKEUP: Giota Tsiolakki,

PROMOTIONAL VIDEO: Giannis Savvidis

📸 POSTER PHOTOGRAPHY: Pantelis Chatziminas

📷 PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS: Christos Avraamidis

WE WARMLY THANK THE SCULPTOR CHRISTOS PAVLOU for making the small clay sculptures (Tel. 99992757)

🎫TICKETS ONLINE: SoldOut Tickets

☎️Phone: 70007721 Anemona Theatre

**MAIN SPONSOR: DEPARTMENT OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE - DEPUTY MINISTRY OF CULTURE
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**MEDIA SPONSORS: RIK
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🗓️ PREMIERE: 13 February 2026

✅ PERFORMANCES: Friday & Saturday 20:30 and Sunday 19:00