It was no accident that Marpessa preferred Ida over Apollo…Marpissa and other stories

The participatory performance “It was no accident that Marpessa preferred Ida over Apollo…Marpissa and other stories*” by VASKOS (Vasilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis) will be the result of a three-day workshop in the village, collectively exploring the intermediate narrative space between fiction and personal experience. The resulting hybrid material is organised as a representation, inspired also by the rich tradition of the “Performances” of Christ’s Passion, in order to attempt a public presentation-narrative. “We revisit and retell the myth(s) of Marpissa, enriching the material with personal stories and narratives, as well as with rumours and gossip from stories that we have heard and want to share. We create hybrid stories, somewhere in the intermediate space between personal and public, using perhaps the myths of Marpissa as a mask. We are inspired with respect and love by the rich tradition of the “Performances”, and we structure our stories to give a quick and compelling public presentation-narrative”.