Nina Rapi
British-Greek writer
Nina Rapi (Greek: Νίνα Ράπη) is a Greek playwright. She also writes short stories and essays.
Style and themes
Rapi's writing focuses on power, desire and freedom. In an interview with The Scavenger she described her core themes in her latest trilogy of plays (Angelstate; Reasons to Hide; Kiss the Shadow) as being surveillance, censorship and power on the one hand, with intimacy, resistance and freedom on the other. In a more recent interview with Samuele Grassi, and regarding her aesthetic approach, she says: 'The place from which I write is very intimate and personal but the situations/dynamics, characters and stories I create are fictional and often intellectually worked out (the mental and the emotional are for me closely inter-linked.' & 'I do often use different media on stage, not only videos but live music and choreography...Text is of course primary.' Lizbeth Goodman analysing Ithaka, Rapi's first play, writes: 'It is this concept of transformative progressive freedom that provides the key to Nina Rapi's first play Ithaka, a play that looks at the darker side of sexuality...' & 'Ithaka explores the concept that individuals are constantly subconsciously attracted to conflict and domination...Most important, Ithaka is a dark comedy – surreal in some aspects, bizarrely "realistic" in others. The tone of the piece is strikingly irreverent.' Samuele Grassi, analysing Rapi's more recent work (Angelstate, Lovers, Tricky, Josie's Restrooms) writes of 'Rapi's use of a multi-layered structure...focusing on freedom and/or desire as freedom.'
Plays
Nina Rapi's first play Ithaka was initially performed as a staged reading in 1989 at Riverside Studios by the Women's Theatre Workshop. Dimple Godiwala referring to Shadow, one of the key characters in the play, wrote: 'Shadow is where we begin to recognise the depths of sexuality (and otherness) we all possess...To invite an introspection which rests on the shadowed self we need to recognise that our sexualities, however they may have been moulded, are based on a certain opacity of self.' The play went on to get published in Seven Plays by Women, Aurora Metro, winner of the Raymond Williams award, 1991; and to win Best Play Award at BITS Theatre Festival, Pirani, India, 1995.
Dreamhouse & Dance of Guns followed, both performed at Oval House Theatre at 1991 and 1992 respectively.
Lovers was performed, in its short version, at Gielgud Theatre, part of West End Shorts, London New Play Festival 2002.
Edgewise had a performed presentation at Gate Theatre in 2013.
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