The director Sotiris Tsafoulias spoke on Friday on the show «Amino» with great emotion, answering to all those who take on the victims of violence within and outside the artistic world.
«The reason I come out and speak is to protect those who have the courage to come out and speak against the voices of the elders who do not articulate the speech they should in the current situation. I have not heard any of the victims go off the reservation nor those who speak up for them.
I see an incredible peace and love. We will also stand in love with the perpetrators because they too have collateral damage, because among the victims we must also count the children and wives of the people who committed these heinous acts. But this is not the time to deal with them; it is the time to deal with the wounded.» the director said at first.
Sotiris Tsafoulias - “The theatre is its people”
«I can't recover from the interview with Mr.Mothonaeus and I don't know if the interview should be replayed and instead of seeing Mr.Mothonaeus we should see a picture of him when he was 6 years old so that those who don't understand can understand and say “behave yourself”, “I don't know who the lady is”, “I support the victims but”.
I am happy that all this is starting from the theatre,» he said and likened the situation to Sophocles« »Antigone", the struggle between value and authority, as he said.
«Because I heard the term “anthropophagy” which I didn't hear in the case of Zac Kostopoulos, I didn't hear it when there were complaints at a time when society was not ready for it. If what you are doing now is called telemedicine, self-indulgence in front of a frightened woman trying to get out of doors that you have locked and you in front of this spectacle not only maintaining your erection but also reaching a climax, what is that called? When you see a 6 year old child and we turn around and say the statute of limitations has run out on the offence but the offender's right to sue for defamation has not, the trauma to the soul of the Mothman in how many years is the statute of limitations?;
I hear people talk about people who have allegedly done these acts and are called great artists. Who is the great artist? There is no great artist unless he is first a great man. It is the deeds that should be measured, not the years,» he said, quoting Antigone.
«Which theatre is in danger? It's 3000 years old. Liagas and Tsafoulias who are not good as people because they have been on the run for 30-40 years will endanger the theatre because of them. The theatre is its people,» he said.
Sotiris Tsafoulias - So the “sit tight” should go to those who are unable to separate flirting from harassment
«The point is to be careful what we say to those who stand up. So the “sit tight” should go to those who are unable to separate flirtation from harassment, those who in the face of raped souls and bodies seek opportunities to dig up their careers, the one who cannot admit his mistake and ask for an apology,» he said.
«Why now? I heard that a man who has allegedly done all this is going to be referred to a sex rehab clinic. This is where the why now comes in? Why didn't he apply to the clinic when he felt the first rush? After the first rape? After the second, the third. Why now?» he said.
«We love justice but it's man-made and imperfect,» the director said and the set erupted in congratulations.
«The director who injures the actor is not a director, he is a cameraman. An artist is not a profession, an artist is the evolution of man. Mr. Mothonius is a tremendous artist not because he practices acting but because he has suffered so much ugliness from the human race and he wakes up every morning and says to himself that he deserves the joy and accepts the embrace of a human being. That is artistry. It's not standing on the Epidaurus and drawing monologues and having the stones resonate. Stones and boards are nothing without people,» he said emphatically.
