The killer of the highway
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THE HIGHWAY KILLER
(Ïriginal Title : O dolofonos tis leoforou)
Two
actors are doing improvisations based on Tassos Goudelis’ novel The
Highway Killer, a text very loosely inspired by the classic “it’s all in
his head” twist devised by Dostoïevski in The Double. The Highway
Killer describes a person’s car ride on a highway and his relationship
with a solitary (?) hitchhiker he picks up. As the news on the car
radio warns of a killer who stalks the highway, the driver tells the
other man that they look so much alike they could be doubles. He
confesses that he has inherited a fear of the “double” from similar
obsessions harboured by his father who was terrified by the idea that at
some point and quite unexpectedly he would meet a literal facsimile of
himself, that is to say the incarnation of Death. He adds that to avoid
being unprepared for this meeting he goes constantly up and down the
highway with his car hoping to avoid any such encounter.
The
directors intervene in the action through their notes and the problems
of form and action. The two actors have undertaken to analyse their
roles, their thoughts regarding the novel as well as to register their
own fantasies on the story in direct interviews.
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