The Greek Cultural Center (GCC) of Astoria will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary – 50 continuous years of artistic contributions to the Greek-American community. From its inception until today, it has strived to maintain the high standard of the shows it hosts, with the aim of showcasing true Greek culture and heritage in New York. After “Lady of Ro,” presented at the Queens Theater, the beloved little GCC theater, located on 30th Street in Astoria, dared to present another demanding performance. This time the artist was Michael Dukakis, a 35-year-old man who impressively took on the role of an 80-year-old writer created by Iakovos Kambanellis in the monologue “The Praise”, one of three monologues under the general title “Three in Solitude”, written in 1992.
Kambanellis, the eminent Greek playwright, broke new ground in realistic theater and wrote The Praise to reveal the essence of the deeper nature of ambition – including the absurdity and futility of posthumous fame, as well as the fear of the dark.
“As long as we live, they are all silent, and as soon as we die, they have diarrhea!… That is to say both a total absence of fame when they are alive, and a flood of fame when They died! How can the two occur together? » » is one of the questions asked by Kambanellis in The Eulogy which describes the vanity of men, particularly those of the arts and letters, who, at the end of their lives, aspire not to be forgotten after their death.
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