We often make the mistake of encapsulating concepts such as communication in tight margins. In this way we try to define them better, but it is possible that we miss some of their dimensions that are anything but insignificant.
So when one tries to record and describe the different forms of communication, one rarely mentions art. And yet, how much stronger can a message become when it is shaped by an artist? How wider an audience can you reach by talking through art about the simplest of things?
The questions are obviously rhetorical and the answers very easy, especially when the art that communicates the message is of a high standard, as is the case in the excellent play “Morte accidentale di un anarchico” directed by Giannis Kakleas.
Of course, the work of Nobel Laureate Dario Fo does not need our praise, but the way in which a 1970 text on the occasion of the political reality in Italy, appears on the stage of “Gloria” theater, as though it was written just yesterday for us here in Greece, speaks by himself.
Both for the universality of art, and – most importantly here – for its power in communicating any message. In our everyday life, everyone talks about violence, power and its abuse, and everyone has a lot to say. “Morte accidentale di un anarchico” does not say much. It says it all! Who listens is, again, a matter of perception.
