Nominated for the 2nd amateurtheaterfestival NRW, Circe is a poetic reimagining of Greek mythology written by Sepideh Tafazzoli. At its heart lies the encounter between the witch and the warrior, made famous in Homer’s Odyssey. But this story begins long before Odysseus reaches her shores. Circe appears first as a young girl in the glittering court of Olympus surrounded by gods, yet never fully one of them. Her jealousy of her cousin, the nymph Scylla, sets a transformation in motion that leads to exile on the island of Aiaia.
There, in solitude, she hones her witchcraft and receives gods, heroes, and wanderers. Aiaia becomes a place of arrival and departure, where those who seek refuge, power or escape alter Circe’s fate and are altered in return. Yet while others pass through, Circe remains; suspended between immortality and longing, power and vulnerability. As the years unfold, she is forced to confront the cost of eternity, because beneath the magic and legend lies a deeper question: What does it mean to live forever if everything you love must end?
