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Pol won the National Award for best
Greek play in 2007 by the Greek Ministry of Culture, for his
play The Rotation System and the National Award for second best Greek play in 2005,
for his play When he was happy, which is
based on the life of Eleftherios Venizelos (the most
important Greek politician of the 20th century).
Pol's play
Without You
had its premiere in
Greece
at the "Amore" Theatre in
Athens, in
May 2008.
For the same play, he
was awarded, in November 2007, the second prize in
the annual international play competition "Plays for
the 21st century" (sponsored by the Playwrights Theater, in
Dallas, Texas), and he was
named October’s 2005
ONE TO WATCH
writer
by the
Stage Right Theatre
Company, based in Liverpool, UK.
"Without You" is available
here
as an e-play download by stageplays.com.
The opening scenes of the play can be read at the
same link, free of charge.
Stage Right Theatre Company also
presented his monologue "The bet" and two
of his poems in a dramatized form, in the "Theatre
in the Rough" festival in Southport, Merseyside, UK,
in February 2006.
His one-act play,
By the Pool, was performed in New York, in
July 2008, at
the Strawberry One-Act Festival.
Directed by Philip Reissman, Cast: Colleen B.
McGloin, Jaylee Kylan, Serge Velez.
His one-act play,
Naughty Cats, was performed in New York, in August 2007, at
the same festival.
Directed by Jack Dyville, Cast: John Virag, Kate
Tellers.
His
one-act play
Bogey
was performed in 2003
in the UK by the Rowntree Players theatre group.
Three of these performances took place
in theatre
festivals (one of them the All England Drama
Festival) and Martyn Hunter, the actor playing the
part of "Bogey" won the best actor award in all of
them (in the All England Drama Festival he shared
the award with actor Graham Smith, playing the other
part in the play).
The play
was staged again
in December 2009 and February 2010
at the Department of Theatre of
the Susquehanna University,
in
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA.
Directed by Peter Zimmerman, Cast: Ross Griffin,
Kyle Stover.
Pol
also wrote the play Kritiis,
which was performed in his home town in 2001 as a
co-production of the Municipal and Regional Theatre
of Crete and the Municipality of Chania.
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FOR
ALL TIME
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A violent,
alcoholic and dysfunctional marriage.
What keeps two ruined people together?
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JAck
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In
a funeral parlor, the wife of the deceased meets his
mistress for the first time. Their catfight is
interrupted by the arrival of a third woman, who
knows much more than they do about the man in their
life.
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RIPVAN
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Hyde Park, London; the turn of the century. A young
man, who has just dumped his girlfriend, is about to
receive some lessons on love and lust from a very
old man who may or may not be 114 years old, may or
may not have been Greta Garbo’s great love and may
or may not be responsible for Lolita – the
original one.
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about the play…
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Lenin (Only
One)
- Two men
share a humble room in present-day Russia. One is a
former champion athlete, now unemployed, while the
other, an intellectual, has never worked in his
life.
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about the play…
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Bogey-
Two men in a mental hospital - one of them is
convinced that he is Humphrey Bogart, while the
other one seems certain that he is Cary Grant
(although his friend thinks that he is Clark Gable).
But are they really as mad as they seem?
More about the play…
and
Performances/Awards of "Bogey"
BOGEY @ Amazon.com
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NAUGHTY CATS-
A lost cat triggers a seriously funny flirt
between a man and a woman,
in a mad comedy about loneliness in the big
cities, and the multiple love affairs with
which people try to cope with it.
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