Η Eleni Radou in both the first and second lockdown has often shared her thoughts and concerns in the social media. This time she spoke about the difficulties we have all been experiencing for the last 10 months, but also about the devaluation of art in an interview with the newspaper Real News and Vassilis Bouziotis.
«How do you fill all that time? We were on one side running marathons non-stop and we are now on the other side of incarceration. I fixed the closets ten times, changed the decor of the house fifty times, decorated the whole house with lights inside and out, what else is a woman to do? I said to Basil, if you don't let me out, I'll decorate the dog too. But am I wrong? We all lied,» said Eleni Radou not losing her sense of humor even in the unprecedented situations we live in. «Surreal and very difficult and let's joke to exorcise the evil. It is very difficult,» she then noted.
«Yes, there is an incredible disparagement. It's like we don't exist. A sense of non-existence. For so long they don't do anything because they don't know the space! They don't go to the theatre, they don't know theatre, it doesn't concern them and they think it doesn't concern people. That's the truth, they don't know the space and from what I can see they don't care to know it. They boast that they are doing something, without doing anything “But we didn't know” they say.
It's as if someone has taken over the Ministry of Defence and doesn't know what planes there are. You're not allowed not to know! And it's not allowed for all of us! For those of us who have spat blood in the theater for so many years. We've fought, we've toiled in an unsafe and savage place, we've got a hole in our stomach and now that we have the need of our state they devalue us», said Eleni Radou, apparently referring to the Ministry of Culture and continued.
«They let planes fly full and public transport overflowing with people, they open hairdressing salons and devalue art and theatres which, with the measures taken and the short time they were open this summer, proved that they were safe spaces,» he said, adding that during the time the theatres were open, the spectators followed all the precautions taken by the coronavirus that were taken, the instructions that were given to them, but the result was ultimately the same: «Closed, all-closed theatres until further notice. Without the slightest information about when they will open, if they will open and how. They have to run, to make up for lost time,» the actress concluded.
