The Dinner Game streaming online

It’s a well-known play, a comedy with a message loved by many, which was even turned into a popular film. Frances Veber’s The Dinner Game, originally titled Le Dîner de Cons in French, was a hit in Parisian theatres when it first came out in 1993 and five years later it premiered on the big screen. Since then, there have been many theatre and film adaptations. This January, several famous Greek actors are presenting their version of the play in two pre-recorded online performances on Saturday and Sunday.

Accessed through viva.gr each stream, one at 11am, at 5pm and another at 9pm, will remain available to viewers four hours. The play has been at Kappa Theatre in Athens for the past five years with sold-out performances featuring Spyros Papadopoulous and Pygmalion Dadakarides amongst other well-known actors.

The plot of the story is quite comical and surreal as a group of businessmen friends gather every Wednesday evening for a fools’ dinner where each person brings a ‘fool’ along for the rest to ridicule. The person who brings the most foolish guest is declared the champion. On a particular weekly dinner host Brochant locates his ‘idiot’ of the week, François Pignon yet as a series of unexcepted events occur, their relationship changes, putting everything they know into question.

The Dinner Game

Greek play streamed online. An adaptation of the well-known French play Le Dîner de Cons. January 9 and 10 on viva.gr. 11am, 5pm and 9pm. €12. www.viva.gr/tickets/theatre/streaming/deipno-ilithion/