The Suitcase: Losing Famagusta

Credit: Andreas Georghiou

What do you take with you when forced to leave your home because of war? Which items and memories do you pack?

On 13 August 1974 Lorna Eleonora Vassiliades began a new diary titled Dramatic Days. Exactly 50 years later, she revisited her past as a child refugee in a solo performance in Theatro Technis in Camden (13-15 August 2024).

Accompanying the performance, an exhibition that featured the items the artist and her parents took with them on the early evening of 13 August 1974 when they suddenly left.

Credit: Andreas Georghiou
Credit: Andreas Georghiou

Writer – performer: Lorna Eleonora Vassiliades

Director: Pedro Perez Rothstein

Movement director: Despoina Christianoudi

Exhibition curator: Eleni Chasioti

Assistant Producer: John Kolikis


Supported by:
Queen Mary University of London, School of English and Drama
Cyprus High Commission Cultural Section