M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A

Translated from the Greek and performed by Aliki Chapple

Mairoula is a name. Maybe it’s her name; she never says. She will explain the acronym though, as well as a few other acronyms of her own invention. But first she’s got some other things she wants to tell you. About sex and death and watermelons, why she’d welcome a devastating earthquake, and how she wishes you all the happiness in the world.

Written by one of Greece’s most controversial and politically engaged playwrights, M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A is partly autobiographical, partly absurd, but also an allegory of the country’s modern woes.