Jackie is a deconstruction of one of the greatest myths of the western society, the myth about Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The text combines biographic elements, a media discourse about the Kennedy’s, and the theory on clothes as Roland Barthes presented it in his essay on fashion. As for the model, Jackie is presented from three aspects: factual (a bourgeois person named Jacqueline Bouvier), a picture (Jackie photographed and Jackie as a fashion icon), and the textual Jackie (as the one presented by the international media). So, Jackie becomes a multilayer person, abandoning one role after another, yet she can never find her true identity.
Jelinek's simple and inquisitive question is: what would have Jackie talked about if she had talked for a long time; if we could hear what she talked to herself. In the end of the monologue we will know everything about her – and we will be the first in this experience.

Translation: George Depastas
Direction - VIdeo – Set & Costume design: Angela Brouskou
Lighting design: Maria Athanasopoulou
Performed by Sofia Seirli

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