Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou i(14477724 works by) (a.k.a. Cassandra)
Gender: Female
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1 The 13th Month Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou , 2023 single work drama

'A month is a wholly irrational division of time. It has no relation to anything in astronomy or human experience. A month is nothing but just a bad habit. In a quiet private room, a group of billionaires gather to debate time, while two long-suffering political staffers try the impossible, actually get something meaningful done before they get voted out. The plan? Compromising on their morals and get the ultra-rich to throw their weight and money behind adding a 13th month and tricking them into unwittingly endorsing a more socialist work week, by preying on their desire to play God. All this is in exchange for lifting sanctions on a self-titled fascist politician so the billionaires can do business with him. But everything has a price, and it’s more than a public servant’s salary.

'This play is inspired by real events, a real idea, and a real committee that existed...twice! This show imagines a third meeting of a satirical and cynical nightmare on the run-up, or blunder-up, to this project.'

Source: Publisher's blirb.

1 The Marvellous Life of Carlo Gatti Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou , 2022 single work drama

'Carlo Gatti introduced ice cream to Victorian London, but this isn’t about him. This is about a physicist in 1983, a psychologist in 2017, a piano-playing Victorian era ghost, ice cream, quantum gravity, Elton John, and feeling alone in the universe.

'In their respective apartments, in their respective times, alone a psychologist and a physicist fear for their sanity, because whoever lives above them has been playing Liszt on the piano nonstop, the only problem is they live on the top floor.

'As one Christmas takes a turn as a betrayal is revealed. When we’re moving across time, can binding a found family across the ages change our future?

'This bleak comedy takes a look at the delicate things that barely hold us and the universe together, the deafening pain isolation and the phenomenal power of ice cream.'

Source: Theatre Works.

1 Deep Water, Strong Currents Cassandra-Elli Yiannacou , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Everything, All At Once : Fiction and Poetry from 30 of Australia's Best Writers under 30 2021; (p. 50-59)
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