Our Love Began Here, and Here It Will End is a visual theatre performance exploring womanhood, gender-based violence, absence, memory, and grief. Created by composer Dimitra Sofroniou and visual artist Vasilia Sofroniou, the work does not seek to represent violence explicitly, but instead foregrounds disappearance and silence, inviting the audience to confront what remains unsaid and unseen.
Set within the perspective of an apartment in Athens, sound becomes the primary narrative force. Through spatial audio and live performance, the boundary between stage and spectator dissolves. Within the home, shifting emotional states unfold. Silence functions both as testimony and as resistance.
Against the backdrop of rising public awareness around femicides in Greece and globally—particularly during and after the COVID-19 period—the performance traces a sonic journey from the intimacy of domestic space to the streets of Athens. Greek-language audio drawn from news broadcasts intertwines with fragments of memory, mourning, and personal resonance.
The title, Our Love Began Here, and Here It Will End, is taken from a handwritten note found in the home of a 56-year-old man who murdered his wife, Anna, in Kavala, Greece, in September 2022.
This performance presents various topics that may be triggering for some.
Dimitra Sofroniou (b.1996) is a composer, performer, and sound artist from Athens, Greece, currently based in Amsterdam and Antwerp. Sofroniou’s performances explore the intersections of the personal and the political, adressing themes of gender, emotion, and identity. By merging fiction and reality, her work creates poetic spaces where music and performance meet.
This project was created in collaboration with:
Concept, Music Composition: Dimitra Sofroniou
Concept, Visual Artist: Vasilia Sofroniou
Scenography, Light Design: Athina Botonaki
Performers: Fyllenia Grigoriou, Christina Zaka
Producer: Alida Plas
This program is part of The Grey Space’s residency program House Guests in which we facilitate the interaction between a work, the space and the audience. Each House Guest has a week-long mini-residency, culminating in a public event.
This edition of House Guests is supported by the municipality of The Hague.
