11.16.2012

GREECE RETURNS TO DARK AGES. "CORPUS CHRISTI" CAST AND CREW SUED FOR BLASPHEMY WITHOUT ANYBODY HAVING REALLY SEEN THE PLAY


Religious fanatics, Neonazi party members of Golden Dawn, and Orthodox priests, wreaked havoc and ultimately managed to cancel the Greek version of Terence McNally's "Corpus Christi". The director and the cast of the play abandoned the show fearing for their safety and, ultimately, their own lives, after theater "Hytirion" was repeatedly surrounded and attacked by hordes of SWAT team, religious fanatics and Neonazi party Golden Dawn MP's breaking in and swarming like cockroaches the proscenium
Following the arrests of journalists and bloggers like Kostas Vaxevanis and Makis Vrahiolidis more and more symptoms of censorship and brutal cultural crackdown emerge day-after-day. The corrupted political system in Greece is ready to collapse in a few weeks time and it is taking lots of people underwater...