Georgia Xanthopoulou

Pandora, the All-Gifted AI, has been released. Written in June 2026.

After twenty years of war and wandering, Odysseus returns home. Poetic monologue, written in July 2026.

Two people meet accidentally at Grand Central Station in New York and wait for trains to different destinations. Written in July 2026, based on the setting of Grand Central Station in New York.

A man is feeding fish and talks to a silent person beside him. CONTENT WARNING: references to death at sea, implied child death, collective trauma, implied cannibalism (29/5/2026)

It is a poetic monologue based on the myth of Narcissus, focusing on the formation of identity, for Playwrights Thriving Writing Challenge Monologues, April 2026.

A man is preparing his soup. Based on given prompts ''Cooking'' by Lucy Wang, ''I sing into my mouth'' by Scott Sickles, during the Writing Monologues Program, and the weekly prompt ''Touch - Cold running water'' by Steven Martin.

A six-year-old boy makes origami bees, hoping his father will return. Written for 2025 Playwrights Thriving, Playwright's Delight.

A mother is trying to help her daughter with her homework. Based on Playwrights Thriving prompt - Sight: A woman raises her arms.

Persephone's poetic monologue. Written for Playwrights Thriving, Playwright's Delight title prompt 2026

The Minotaur gives his perspective on life in the Labyrinth. Based on the given setting prompt: Cage. Content warning: death and confinement.

A is a well-educated, intelligent, and outwardly successful man who can’t understand why his life feels unbearable. He knows something is wrong, but he can’t name it. At the same time, another story plays out in silence: unseen elephants move through the space. The stage becomes a place where the invisible shapes the visible.

A society begins with a promise. Then the promise turns into a rule. The rule hardens into ritual. And the ritual, over time, starts to feel like a cage. In a mythopolitical world, Pyrros and Lithos, two children at the edge of a broken landscape, become friends. As they grow, they build a city from nothing. When the city is finally ready, they call the others, the ones who live underground, to join them. To keep the city together, they agree on a lie: the fire on the altar at the center of the city must never be touched. The lie becomes a law, the law becomes faith, and faith becomes the architecture of power.

Three committee members interrogate a talking parrot inside a bureaucratic evaluation system. They are meant to assess its language, but as the questions continue, it’s their own fears that surface — fears about power, truth, and what communication can or can’t do. Miscommunication becomes procedural: the conflict isn’t personal, it’s structural. The problem isn’t them — it’s the rules, the forms, the protocols.
The real struggle is between human beings and the systems they’ve built around themselves. Can anyone break through the machinery and actually be understood? Can a voice — human or not — reach across the walls of its own context? The play doesn’t settle the question.
For readers interested in non-naturalistic, rule-based theatre, where systems govern the world and tension comes from apparatus and procedure rather than character arcs. (My first play.)

Four people arrive in a place that promises joy: a paradise made for comfort, ease, and laughter. And, at first, that’s what they find. But as time passes, the perfection stops feeling perfect. The stillness has a smell, the beauty feels staged, and happiness starts to bruise. A door appears only under rare conditions, and each of them must decide: stay where nothing hurts, or risk the unknown beyond the Threshold.

Two cousins, a painter and a man with hypochondriac tendencies, reunite after their aunt’s death. Their paths intersect, their identities shift, and their roles quietly reverse: the hypochondriac reveals an unexpected artistic nature, while the painter begins to fear he suffers from “Painter’s Disease,” a peculiar condition that distorts vision on three levels, physical, emotional, and perceptual.
The play spirals through grief, hypochondria, artistic jealousy, and the fragile boundary between imagination and illness, until a single raindrop becomes a map for seeing.

When a struggling economist discovers that a corporate job is open only to women with ginger hair and blonde highlights, he does the only thing that might keep him afloat: he invents a new identity. Inside an office where the rules feel made up on the spot, hair color, shoe size, and tongue length are considered proof of merit. Dionysios begins to lose track of who he was in the first place.

A and Z wake up in a small, dark room with no clear way out. They talk, or try to, while a voice pulses from the walls like a heartbeat. A bright spot appears, just once in a while, and neither of them can agree on what it means. Is the room a prison, a mind, a memory? Is escape a matter of leaving, or understanding where they already are?
A minimal, existential piece where questions matter more than answers. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/commonplace-collection-the-void-…

A man lies motionless in his bedroom, staring at the ceiling while his thoughts spill into the room like fog. The Green Olive Soap, a bar his mother used for everything, becomes the unlikely protagonist: a memory, a ritual, a lifeline, maybe even salvation. As voices rise from the faucet and the window, and as aphids devour his plant, the world outside and the world inside blur. A short, intimate piece about grief, depression, and the strange objects that hold us together when we are coming apart. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/the-green-olive-soap/

On the occasion of an expired food inspection, Melas is sent to a white, ultra-minimal room where he’s told he can finally “vacation” inside his unhappy thoughts. The space feels like freedom, or a cell, or both. As he sinks deeper into the quiet, he wonders if this permission to feel terrible might be the first step toward feeling something else — maybe even happiness.
Published in Hello Godot — A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology (Vol. 11).

A childhood game in the schoolyard becomes a metaphor for adulthood. A monologue about rules, power, and what happens when the “Slow” stops chasing. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/the-game/

A man thinks about his life as a series of steps. Published in Rewriting Shakespeare! (Volume 2): An Anthology of One-Minute Plays, edited by Som, Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine, 11 November 2025, p. 41.

The play presents the Three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, as they weave, measure, and cut the thread of a mortal’s life. Inspired by Macbeth, Act 4, Scene I.

In an undefined space, three Damators capture Deinos, a chained man in a primitive state. Content Warning: themes of violence and oppression. Published in SHHH! BREATHE SLOW! (Volume 4): An Anthology of One-Minute Horror Plays.

A person is about to leave for holidays, and is looking for a companion for the one that will be left behind. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/companion-animal/

A man enters his living room, wearing the mask of youth. With his eyes closed, he speaks in fragmented memories. By the time he opens his eyes, he has aged decades. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/until-you-open-your-eyes/

In a dystopian society, Aisthanoussa whispers to Eutaxias that she hasn't taken the pill for days. As a result, she discovers grief and, by being able to experience grief, she also finds a different form of joy. Published in Test Tube Theater, An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

Two men, Girasforos and Neophytos, are sitting on a bench, in an undefined place and talking to each other. But, do they manage to communicate? In a world where darkness falls early, their brief conversation becomes a small victory. Published in Hello Godot Volume 9 – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology.

In a bare stage setting, Lithos converses with a statue, the Statue, expressing a profound connection to life and place. In the end he is ready to turn to Stone.

In a surreal world, a statue comes to life and urges a burdened man to discard his massive sphere. Indeed, he places it onto another statue that awakens with purpose, while he becomes a statue himself. A reflection on purpose and burden as fundamental to the human experience.

An elderly woman, on the occasion of her birthday, reflects on her birth and describes the early period of her life. Featured in Amaranth Journal, Vol.3, Issue 2, Autumn 2024.

A lonely woman invites a foreign language teacher to start lessons. Over coffee, she shares the reason for her solitary life.

An elderly woman with dementia reaches for connection and purpose, as memory frays and the self becomes uncertain. A brief meditation on identity, loss, and the hunger for meaning.
Published in the June 2025 issue of Literature Today. Earlier work featured at Exitirion (2019): https://exitirion.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/georgia-xanthopoulou-kenos-t…

A woman is confronting her life through the lens of a non-reflecting mirror. Memories, like shards, come to her mind. Her mother's loss, her aging, and her loneliness are the axes around which the play unfolds. She is looking for a subtle smile, symbolizing her lust for connection. Published at https://apricitymagazine.com/portfolio/commonplace-collection-a-subtle-…

Scattered thoughts as I gaze out from a hotel window in the heart of London. Prose poem. Published in The Zest of the Lemon Volume l - Slices of Life and Beauty: Reflections from around the world.

In the state of Bibliografia, every 50 years, a great earthquake occurs, and a creature appears. The inhabitants fear it, without knowing exactly what it is. There are testimonies that it breathes fire from its nostrils and flies. Hero, a young girl, relies on her knowledge and decides to solve the mystery. She conducts research in Bibliografia and finds a way to act. With the help of two geologists, she digs a tunnel and enters the cave where the nameless creature is located. She discovers that it is a Pegasus. Hero and Pegasus ascend to Bibliografia. A great celebration takes place. Misunderstandings are resolved, and fear turns into friendship. The work ends with a song. It encapsulates Plato's allegory of cave.