The Balkans was once known as the tinderbox of Europe, and it was no exaggeration. It was a region that served as the pretext for the outbreak of WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and later was the site of the end of the last war in Europe.
In both WWI and WWII, history was fueled by nationalism. In the First World War it was a Serbian nationalist who killed the presumptive heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Much later, it was again nationalism that fueled the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. Since then, nationalist passions have receded somewhat, but there are still loci that continually flare up.
We see it in Kosovo. We see it also in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), not with the national ex-PM Nikola Gruevski, but with his Atlanticist successor Zoran Zaev, who is now raising irredentist aims. In Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama often plays the nationalist card. He went as far as to try to exploit the murder of a citizen of Albanian descent in Greece, only to find that the man was murdered by a compatriot.
Greece, too, which has at times fallen victim to nationalism, must not fall into this trap. The motive force of nationalism is insecurity about identity. Greece has a strong identity and knows how to behave calmly and prudently in the Balkan tinderbox.
Μυστικά, σχέσεις και συγκρούσεις ξεδιπλώνονται μέσα από τις ζωές τριών ανθρώπων που προσπαθούν να σταθούν ο ένας απέναντι στον άλλον και τελικά απέναντι στον ίδιο τους τον εαυτό.
Πέντε ερωτικές ιστορίες, τοποθετημένες σε διαφορετικές εποχές της Ελλάδας, συνθέτουν το κοινό σύμπαν του έργου «Η Αστερόσκονη», όπου άνθρωποι και χρονικότητες συναντιούνται γύρω από την ίδια ανάγκη για αγάπη και σύνδεση.
Η Δευτέρα 9 Μαρτίου είναι αφιερωμένη στον Αντώνη Καλογιάννη, καθώς το έργο του θα «ζωντανέψει» στη σκηνή του θεάτρου Παλλάς, μέσα από τη μουσική παράσταση «Η φωνή της ψυχής μας».
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