FACES IN THE SAND
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
This is not a performance that tells a story. It is a field of presences. A passage. A breathing.
A life unfolding not in sequence, but in waves — in returns, in fragments, in echoes that refuse to disappear.
Faces in the Sand does not seek to explain. It remains. It stands beside time, and listens.
THE WORK
A human being is never one. They are the child that still lingers, the body that remembers before language, the voices inherited, unnamed, unfinished. They are the places that shaped them, the rooms that held them, the silences that marked them more than words. They are the faces that passed through them — loved, lost, forgotten, returned. All of them still present. All of them still speaking. Like traces in the sand before the sea gathers them back into its vast forgetting.
From this awareness emerges Faces in the Sand — not as narrative, but as a gathering of moments. A composition of breath, of memory, of human presence, held together for a fleeting instant before it dissolves again into time.
THEATRE, MUSIC AND MEMORY
Here, theatre does not illustrate. Music does not accompany. Nothing is secondary. Everything listens to everything else. Sixteen songs rise and fall like tides, interwoven with fragments of speech, forming a single current — a continuous, living movement. A life, not told, but felt. Childhood appears without announcement. Desire passes through like a sudden warmth. Fear settles, quietly. Memory returns, uninvited. Loss remains. At the center, a presence that is both near and distant — Lydia Fotopoulou, appearing through image, a figure suspended between body and light, between absence and voice. Around her, bodies and sound. Performers who shift, transform, dissolve. Musicians who do not accompany, but breathe within the same body of the work. Everything is alive. Everything is in relation. Images emerge, not to decorate, but to remember what cannot be spoken. And slowly, without declaration, without conclusion, a form appears — not as story, but as constellation.A gathering of moments that leave their imprint, however briefly, before they are carried away. Like faces in the sand.
Tickets
https://www.ticketservices.gr/event/theatro-eler-prosopa-stin-ammo/
CREDITS
Text & Music
Giannis Tsamantakis
Direction
Dimitris Komninos
Performers
Lydia Fotopoulou*
Phoebus Papakostas
Maria Latsinou
Giannis Tsamantakis
Movement Direction
Anthy Theofilidi
Lighting Design
Ifigeneia Gianniou
Musicians (Ta Pera Plasmata)
Giorgos Hatzis — piano
Sokratis Ganiaris — percussion
Kostas Borbolis — bass
Kostas Staikos — winds
Orchestration
Giannis Tsolkas
Visual Design
Claudio Bolivar
Gregory Panopoulos
Apostolos Koutsianikoulis
Assistant Director
Maria Riga
* Lydia Fotopoulou appears through a pre-recorded cinematic performance
PRODUCTION DETAILS
ELER Theatre
April 17 – May 17, 2026
10 Frynichou Street
Athens 10558, Greece
Performances
Friday & Saturday — 21:00
Sunday — 20:00
Duration
65 minutes
Produced by:
Salamina Theatre — Centre for Expression and Culture (Non-profit organisation)
Odysseia Cultural Project
With the support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (LOGO)
Tickets: https://www.ticketservices.gr/event/theatro-eler-prosopa-stin-ammo/
