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Past Productions Out of Attica started in 2003, when 4 young actors broke away from a dramatic production which was fast becoming a farce. As there was not much demand for foreign talent in Greece at the time, they decided to create their own international theatre company. Walkie Talkie became the first production, a selection of connected sketches about the communication, or lack of it, between patients of a cellular phone addiction rehabilitation center. It played at the Festival of European Anglophone Theatre Societies (FEATS) in Antwerp the next year. In 2005 Out of Attica performed Oslo, a one-act about a rock star who wakes up in a hotel room in the Norwegian capital, not knowing if it's night or day, or even if he is really awake. The show was also featured at FEATS in Hamburg. But the group's history goes back much further. As early as 1993, after a year at the Maastricht Drama Academy in the Netherlands, Marq Riley founded MOSACT, an English-speaking theatre group with Marcel Harmsen. In total defiance of the academy's traditionalist book of theatre making, they took Tom Stoppard's Another Moon Called Earth and turned it into an fresh, inventive and absurd one-act play. Soprano Melinda Hughes shone as the female lead and film maker Jeroen van Kesteren peddled away on a home trainer as the fatigued concierge. The group started making a name for itself in the European amateur circuit and started winning awards with their consistently innovative approach. In 1997 Marq wrote his first play Milonga de Javú, which combined three scenes in a dream repetition of their realistic counterparts with a live jazz trio on stage, led by Dutch virtuoso and close friend Glenn Corneille. This was followed in 2000 by Day One which was largely rehearsed online, but probably not to the play's advantage. It was to become MOSACT's last performance before Marq moved to Greece permanently, and he eventually found his way back into the scene playing the lead in an ill fated production about Lord Byron. It nevertheless brought together four kindred minds equally entrapped in the play's rehearsal process, and eager to get an audience. Having never received a cent of subsidy or sponsoring, Out of Attica is currently undergoing a reformation to determine its future course, but that the team will return is certain. There are still plenty ideas out there...
Past Productions
Out of Attica started in 2003, when 4 young actors broke away from a dramatic production which was fast becoming a farce. As there was not much demand for foreign talent in Greece at the time, they decided to create their own international theatre company. Walkie Talkie became the first production, a selection of connected sketches about the communication, or lack of it, between patients of a cellular phone addiction rehabilitation center. It played at the Festival of European Anglophone Theatre Societies (FEATS) in Antwerp the next year. In 2005 Out of Attica performed Oslo, a one-act about a rock star who wakes up in a hotel room in the Norwegian capital, not knowing if it's night or day, or even if he is really awake. The show was also featured at FEATS in Hamburg.
