John Captain: I couldn’t go to my father’s funeral, I only went to 40

‘ Even when my brother died I was able to go to the funeral” confesses the .In the reasons why he did not attend either his father’s funeral or that of his brother John Captain mentioned from the heart in the interview he gave to the magazine Well and journalist Andreas Theodorou. Did you ever get on stage while experiencing a great loss? Yeah, I didn’t go to my father’s funeral because I was playing at Herod. I was at the dance at the Bacchas. My brother told me he was dead, but I couldn’t go to his funeral because we were playing tonight. There was more than an army, I only went to his forty. In theatre you are forbidden to get sick because behind a performance are forty other people waiting for their day. I couldn’t even go to the funeral when my brother died. I was in Heraklion with Seferlis, it was a weekend and we had double performances. In these situations, you have to make your heart stone, because that’s the nature of work. I imagine you’ve played sick in the theater… I’ve played with 40 Acropol fevers with Harry Klein. I had a number with Vengo, and then I went out and I was knocked out because I had 40 fevers. Thanasis was shouting in his well-known style “The Captain fell” (laughs).