Scenes from Greek and international literature present mad women. Women who reach their personal limits and open the window to madness. A madness that helps them out to endure an unbearable personal drama. A madness that compels them to pursuit their own justice, excluded by society, pushed in the corner. It is a madness which is characterized by the irrationality, the hopelessness and the tragic of their existence, and leads them to death. This death has actually already taken place in moral terms, so when it literally comes it serves as catharsis for them. Those thoughts were the inspiration of the play "Scenes of Women's madness".

The heroines are:

Cassandra, from Euripides's "Troades"

A little girl gifted with charisma but also the curse to foretell fate, the priestess, dedicated to the cult of Apollo, is raped by a whole invading army at her own forbidden sanctum. Raped innocence, the violation of her body and the violation of her holy beliefs lead her to madness. Fire at hand, she tries to set afire the world, a world that she knows well that it will self destruct and that his leader will be slaughtered by his wife in a blood bath that will kill Cassandra herself to.

The murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis

A simple, low class woman, living a deprived life and suffering simply for being a woman. Set aside by society because women are considered inferior to men, supposedly dedicated to serve them.
"Her mind reached the sky", in Papadiamantis' words, and she starts strangling little girls, strangling her body, strangling her uterus, so as to avoid her fate, the fate of a woman. Escaping people and the low, she finds her own way -death in the sea.

Ophelia, from Shakespeare's "Amlet"

A little girl of the Elizabethan era, a girl betrayed by all the males who supported her. Her father is dead, murdered by the hand of her loved one. Her cousin is away. Her beloved is in exile, having killed her father. The king's power lies in foundations of sand. Handing out flowers to a world that has denied her, being a flower herself, she is washed away by the river.

"Crazy mother or The Cemetery", by Dionysios Solomos

Here we meet perhaps the most tragic of all female figures. It's the mother burying her own children. These children are the fruit of her love towards her own father. The terrible question is why it is your children who are dying and not you. This unique poem conveys the feeling of cutting out a part of the body that now remains handicap, invalid and helpless. Maria, the heroine, jumps in a mirror-like lake to meet her reflection and advises her shadow to "beware of men".

All four heroines find death and salvation in the water. It is the return to the uterus that gave birth to them. And it is also catharsis.
The play is composed of texts by Euripides, Papadiamantis, Shakespeare and Solomos. Parts of folk songs are also heard as well as ancient tomb epigrams and Modern Greek tunes, sung by Domna Samiou exclusively for this production. The sound ambiance of the play is completed by a collage of rembetica songs, the sound of the sea and the howls of the heroines. The four main roles are played by actresses who combine both acting and dancing talents.
Dust and water, elements strongly associated to the choreography of the play are constantly used on stage. The actresses' movement is based on modern dance techniques and it embodies many theatrical aspects. The style of the scenery is chaste and essential: a mirror, a rope hanging from the roof and buckets full of water.