STILL! A statue that travelled the world closes Nicosia International Festival

After welcoming a Latin Grammy award-winning band from Cuba to its stage, the Nicosia International Festival closes its 2022 agenda with another acclaimed production. The play STILL! A Statue that Turned the World Around has delighted some 6,000 young and old audience members and is a successful production of the festival from 2021. Brought to the stage by a multi-awarded team of creators, it closes the 2022 edition with two performances at the Municipal Theatre of Nicosia, on December 27 and 28.

The play centres on the friendship between a girl persecuted by war and a statue-soldier, and praises peace, acceptance of diversity, and the power of true love. Director Kostas Silvestros and choreographer Panagiotis Tofi jointly compose a musical feast of images and colours having been seduced by the story invented by the lyricist Stavros Stavrou and the original music by the leading Greek pianist and composer Thodoris Economou. The show is for audience members of all ages and nationalities given that language is not an obstacle; the language used in the play is an imaginary one, ‘invented’ by Stavrou.

The Nicosia International Festival 2021 hit is about a girl in a boat who embarks on her journey into the unknown, trying to escape the horror of war. She finds refuge in an unknown country and rests on a bench, underneath a statue of a soldier. Very soon a crazy revelation overturns everything: it is a statue that is alive. Can a statue and a girl become forever friends and travel the world together? Can the girl teach the statue what it’s like to be truly alive and convince him to leave the sword that he holds firmly all the time?

STILL! A Statue that Turned the World

Closing theatrical performance of the Nicosia International Festival. A performance for all ages and nationalities. December 27, 28. Municipal Theatre of Nicosia, Nicosia. 5pm. www.soldoutticketbox.com