The Cloakroom Attendant

The cloakroom attendant of a national museum invites the audience on a journey into the secrets of her profession, which is no other than the study of human nature.

By opening the gates of the sacred temple which is the museum, artefacts come to life and visitors take mythical dimensions. Condemned lovers, a wise singer and a young painter help the cloakroom attendant in her pursuit of happiness in a world filled with the beauty of art and the ugliness of war.

Poetry can be found in the humblest of things, and even more in these which people scorn...

The Cloakroom Attendant is a witty and poetic one-woman show, written and performed by Dimitra Barla. The plot is three-fold comprised of stories from the attendant’s daily routine in the cloakroom, fictional stories inspired by artefacts and insights into two visitors of the museum, a successful singer of the 1960s, and a young painter.