Sunday, June 24, 2012

Yanis Varoufakis— And the Good Ship Greece Sails On: ‘Letter’ to an italian colleague

A few weeks ago I was approached by Andrea Adriatico, a theatre director from Bologna’s Teatri Di Vita with an interesting request: Could I write a ‘letter’ to some fictional Italian economics professor, outlining on a colleague-to-colleague basis, the Greek ‘situation’ as it is experienced by a Greek economics professor. That letter would then be read out during a play, and be part of the play [entitled Cuore di… Grecia, i.e. Heart of… Greece). Well, I was intrigued and said I would do it. The ‘letter’ I ended up writing follows. The first performance is scheduled toward the end of July…
Read it at Yanis Varoufakis

And the Good Ship Greece Sails On: ‘Letter’ to an italian colleague
by Yanis Varoufakis
(h/t Clonal Antibody via email)

When the artists cooperate and coordinate with the intelligentsia, then events speed up due to the synergistic effects.

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