Dimitrios Koutsoukos and Evaggelos Arabatzis play to full house every night at La Mama theatre in Melbourne's inner city Carlton.
It's been sixty years since the movie Zorba's the Greek by Mihalis Cacoyiannis became a big success and won many Oscar nominations and an Oscar. Anthony Quinn's portrayal of larger than life Mihalis Zorbas and the famous syrtaki by Mikis Theodorakis took the cinema goers by storm. In 2024, the same dance takes on new dimensions in the “Zorba's Last Dance”.
The light and shade in the songs by Donna Dimovski-Kantarovski, who plays the second wife of George Zorba, convey a whole gamut of emotions. Although largely a silent figure in the play her constant presence compels the audience to pay extra attention to the dialogues and sharpen their senses to the journey through the different eras.