THE LANGUAGE OF DECENTRALISATION

A production about loss, complicity and forgiveness, inspired by the last book of the Iliad, visits Greece’s regions and remote islands.


The National Theatre of Greece presents Omega Station: a new Greek play written by Giorgos Christodoulou and directed by Dimitris Tsikouras (Tsik), a top graduate of the NTG Drama School Directing Department last year. Focusing on society’s ideas about violence, silence, diversity, complicity and forgiveness, this production, with its adaptable staging possibilities, is one of the network-building initiatives of the NTG, which is attempting – in collaboration with regional theatres, municipalities, and other local bodies – to take artistic creation beyond the narrow confines of the urban centre, to regional towns and remote islands, and to cultivate the Language of Decentralisation. The production will complete its run in the spring of 2026, at the Plagia Skini of the Ziller Building.

The play draws inspiration from the final book of the Iliad, when King Priam kneels before Achilles and pleads with him for the return of his son’s body. From this ancient core, a contemporary narrative is born that revolves around collective complicity, loss, the need for catharsis – but also the crucial act of forgiveness.

In a Greek village, a young man – viewed as somehow different by the local community – disappears. His father faces loss, impenetrable silence, homophobic violence cloaked in normality, and ultimately himself. He stands before the person who has deprived him of his child, demanding to know the truth, demanding a body that is missing. Five characters meet on stage and, with a crime as their starting point, open up a shared space for storytelling, questioning and confrontation. Through myths, allegories and a variety of expressive means, they attempt to get to the heart of the human condition and search for the meaning of true forgiveness.