Rodrigo Garcia: 4

Argentinian director Rodrigo García returned to the Athens Festival with 4, featuring four actors amid a surreal landscape of human figures, animals, and eclectic imagery. Boundaries blur as a tennis match is played against a scandalous painting, while a samurai recounts childhood tales to childlike models. Objects, voices, and bodies intertwine, creating a world both tender and unsettling. In this charged environment, trivial monologues and audience interaction confront viewers with cultural anxieties. Without offering comfort or easy resolutions, García’s vision pushes the stage to overflow with fragments of life’s raw intensity.