By Sergio Blanco
With Despina Sarafeidou
Greece
In broken English
Using the mythical Cassandra of Greek tragedy, playwright Sergio Blanco creates a one woman tour-de-force. Kassandra, wearing red patent-leather boots, reveals her Odyssey. Sex, war, and power, winners and losers. In her off-kilter immigrant English, she talks about our own search for meaning and hope. Tears and laughter, sarcasm and humor, Euripides and Bugs Bunny. The distance between myth and reality, performer and audience, space and text collapses.
Kassandra is performed in broken English by a protagonist who is simultaneously the Cassandra of ancient Greek tragedy and a transsexual immigrant prostitute in any city of the 21st century – an exile in her own body, a stranger in every country.
