the production

Stage Direction: Angeliki Kasola
Dramaturgy: Maro Triandafylloy
Set and props: Mairy Trakaki
Technical Direction: Stavros Chasiotis
Social Media: Bilio Mourgela

Photography: Vassileios Dragoumanos

Performed by: Irini Mela and the women from the theatre and society workshop RESTART COMMUNITY THEATER LABS: Anna Anastasopoyloy, Vanessa Garland, Athena Koumarianou, Mairy Lipkovits, Garyfallia Marouli, Vana Papasimaki

Introduction by the critic and author Maro Triantafyllou

Produced and Organized by:
Restart Theater Athens

The Gospel According to Judas

by MITSOS KASOLAS

STAGED LITERATURE READINGS 2024

"... I carried the Gospel of Judas within me for many decades, until the fullness of time arrived, and I wrote it out of my love for Christ, who preached love. Love as a revolution that never happened, which is why so many others failed. I also wrote it out of appreciation for the “traitor” Judas, who hung himself from his own conscience. I also wrote it for the ‘whore’ Magdalene, for washing Jesus' feet with her very expensive myrrh and giving her soul to him. Now, how it came to pass that the abusers of Christ, who tortured him, mocked him, crucified him, commercialized his Passion, his Crucifixion, his ‘Resurrection’, is a story of incomprehensible hypocrisy of the plutocracy. Of which the truly Christian author Papadiamantis wrote:

"Plutocracy was, is and will be the permanent ruler of nourishes iniquity, it corrupts bodies and souls. She produces the social septenary."

And it has brought humanity today before the precipice.

The Gospel of Judas will surely be accused as a blasphemous book.

But its light will burn... "

Mitsos Kasolas

From the presentation on the back cover of the book

MEET THE AUTHOR MITSOS KASOLAS

Mitsos Kasolas was born in 1936. He studied cinema and theatre. he was an assistant director in films by Dinos for three years at Finos Film.

He has been writing poems, novels, theatre plays, books and screenplays while practicing journalism at the same time. Since 1964 he has published five collections of poetry, a chronicle, two essays on poet Nikos Kavvadias, ten novels, and the book "For a Manifesto of Culture from Little Great Greece".

In 1974 he received the First State Prize for his chronicle "The Other America" and in 1982 he was awarded the First State Prize for his novel "The Prince", which was broadcast as a television series on Greek State TV ET-1, directed by Tasos Psarras. His novel "Angelina" was adapted as a TV series on Greek State TV NET, also by Tasos Psarras, under the title "The Treasure of Angelina".

His poems have been set to music by Yannis Markopoulos and have been incorporated into Jules Dassin's film The Rehearsal. Excerpts from his book "The Other America" are included in high-school textbooks. His works have been taught at Harvard University (Department of Foreign Languages). Selections from his poetry were translated and published in America by Carnglass Press under the title Harvest in 1971, translated by Ariadne Kasola.

The Gospel According to Judas

by MITSOS KASOLAS