Rådhusstræde 13
4 sal. Stage, 1466 Copenhagen
Denmark
House of International Theatre presents a pre-show warm-up. Join us for a smaller performance in our lobby before our main performance of No Exit Reloaded.
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The Cloakroom Attendant
A study on human nature
With Dimitra Barla
The cloakroom attendant of a national museum invites the audience on a journey to the secrets of her profession, which is none other than the study of human nature.
By opening the gates of the sacred temple, which is the museum, artefacts come to life and visitors take mythical dimensions. Condemned lovers, an unfortunate queen and a young painter help the cloakroom attendant in her pursuit of happiness in a world filled with the beauty of art and the ugliness of war.
Poetry can be found in the humblest of things, and even more in those which people scorn.
**** A dazzling display of talent and charisma. Dimitra Barla is a tour de force in her new one-woman show ‘The Cloakroom Attendant’arthursseat.com
The cloakroom attendant is a witty and poetic one-woman show, written and performed by Dimitra Barla, under the coaching of Natalie Katsou. The world of the woman behind the cloakroom counter is a mixture of reality, imagination and aspirations.
The plot is three-folded comprising of stories from the attendant’s daily routine in the cloakroom, fictional stories inspired by artefacts and insights into visitors to the museum. The play had its debut performances on June 2nd and 3rd in London at the Canal Café Theatre.**** ‘Dimitra knows how to captivate the audience’s attention’ Greek national paper ‘Kathimerini ’Dimitra Barla trained at East 15 Acting School in London and Embros Drama School in Athens, after completing a BA in Media and Communication. She has directed and performed the shows SOLO (Vault festival 2014 and Eleusis festival 2013), Medusa the lady in the mirror (Athens January 2012 and Acreide, 2011) and Tales of female madness (Athens May 2012). All plays received four star reviews. Dimitra holds lead parts in the UK feature film I love London and the awarded Greek film The cypress deep down. She is also developing the short film The velveteen rabbit-A tale of love and addiction.
Natalie Katsou is a theatre director and a playwright. She studied theatre (BA Theatre Studies) at the National University of Athens. Gaining the Alexis Minotis Scholarship, granted by the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, she moved to London where she took her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Theatre Directing at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. Since 2010, she lives and works as a theatre director and a drama lecturer in London. She is currently a PhD student in Philosophy of Theatre and Drama. Natalie is the Artistic Director of Operaview (operaview.org
).Credits
Written and performed by Dimitra Barla
Performance coaching by Natalie Katsou
Original lighting design by Stuart Glover
Photographs by Yannis Katsaris (yianniskatsaris.co.uk
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Produced by Dimitra BarlaCloakroomattendantplay.com
The warm up is free to the public, tickets for No Exit – Reloaded can be purchased here.