Other Reflexes

"For us to start listening to each other, I will have to give you a biography of the senses, a detailed explanation of how my faculties were slowly distorted.” – excerpt from Other Reflexes, Diana Georgiou

Directed by Evita Ioannou, the performance enacts Georgiou’s novel Other Reflexes through selected excerpts from the book, interwoven with sounds and visual traces of the places it evokes and the senses it awakens. The narrator transports the audience across various temporalities and locations, letting us into her memoryscapes, from a 90s gay club in Limassol, where lots of stories and friendships blossomed, to the intimate private sphere of her home, where childhood was marked by the sound of domestic violence. The performance aims to bring to life a book so rich to the senses that it has touched our core.

Director: Evita Ioannou
Text: Diana Georgiou

Actress: Maria Masonou
Dramaturgy: Ioulita Toumazi
Performance: Maria Masonou
Music: Marianna Michael
Scenography: Seta Astreou-Karides
Sound design: Alexandra Astreou-Karide

Sound support: Demetris Kallasides

Diana Georgiou

Diana Georgiou is a writer, curator, and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Her recent texts focus on forms of violence and the difficulty of narrating them. Attentive to the sonic resonances of language, her writing also takes the form of recorded sound poetry and performative live readings. Her first novel, Other Reflexes, is published by Book Works, London.

Evita Ioannou

Evita Ioannou (born 1988, Limassol, Cyprus) is a director based in Limassol. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with an MA in Theater and Musical Production and Direction, and from Royal Holloway, University of London with a BA in Media Arts. She has directed 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder in its first Greek translation (MITOS Performing Arts Center, 2021); The Nether by Jennifer Haley in a directed analogy format in its first Greek translation (Paraplevros Productions, 2020); The Cry of Tennessee Williams (Antilogos Theater, 2018); and Dark Vanilla Jungle by Philip Ridley, adapted and translated by her (MITOS Performing Arts Center, 2017). She has worked as Assistant Director and Production Manager on various theatre and film projects in Cyprus and abroad (eg. Cyprus Theatre Organisation & ETHAL). In 2014, she founded the production company Magic Anchor Productions in London.

Ioulita Toumazi

Ioulita Toumazi is an independent curator and writer from Cyprus. Her current research focuses on memory, archives, and language, particularly in the Cypriot context. She holds an MA in History of Art from UCL and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Kent. She co-founded and co-directs Fisherwomxn. Recent shows she (co)curated include: “Weaving our fishing nets residency” and “Radical Afterlives: Cyprus Movements Archive” at Thkio Ppalies, “The sky you kept for us: Lefteris Economou”, “P.S. x10” and “8 minutes 20 seconds: Vera Gabrielidou Hadjida” at Garage art space, “we can only begin to notice” and “Seeking roots” at NiMAC. She was also the project manager of various artistic projects, such as ‘The Broken Pitcher’ with Thkio Ppalies and ‘Christoforos Savva: Unbound’ at the Hellenic Centre in London. She was the artistic researcher for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice.

Maria Masonou

Maria Masonou is an actress from Cyprus. She studied acting at the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company in London (2019–2021) and earned a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University of Surrey (2016–2019). She also trained in contemporary and classical ballet at Balletto di Toscana in Florence (2015–2016) and was a member of the National Youth Theatre in the UK (2022–2024). She has performed in theatre productions including Red Sky Morning (dir. Paris Erotokritou), Constellation of Awakening, and Katabasis (dir. Nefeli Kentoni). In collaboration with Amfidromo Dance Theatre and Elena Christodoulidou, she took part in works such as En Krypto, Chaos, and Goodbye Beaches. In London, she worked with Threedumb Theatre and director Stephen Smith in Notre Dame and Fire, Embers, Ash, and created her solo piece InACTION, presented at the Resolution Festival. Her film work includes the short films Fragility of Language (winner of first prize at Leeds International Film Festival) and What’s Mine is Mine. With the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, she has appeared in The Phoenician Women (dir. Magdalena Zira) and Homer’s Odyssey(dir. Panayiotis Larkou), and will perform in an upcoming Experimental Stage production directed by Evita Ioannou.

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