The Third Wedding Wreath – Kostas Tachtsis
Art Theatre Karolos Koun First Performance: October 22, 2025 Production: Lykofos / Giorgos Likiardopoulos The cultural organization Lykofos, the Art Theatre Karolos Koun, Stathis Livathinos with his regular ensemble, and Stratis Paschalis venture a subversive proposal based on the emblematic novel that marked Greek postwar literature, bringing to the stage the ever-relevant The Third Wedding […]
Diary of a madman – Nikolai Gogol
Kykladon StreetTheatre – Lefteris Vogiatzis First Performance: May 16, 2025 Production: Lykofos | Giorgos Likiardopoulos A few words about the play A small man—one of those people whom everyone passes by almost without noticing—poor, insignificant civil servant Aksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin endures social pressure, the feeling of being the last wheel of the cart, the weight […]
Turandot, the Woman Who Hated Men – Carlo Gozzi
Kefallinias Street Theatre First Performance: February 14, 2025 Co-production: Praxis Theatre Company Lykofos AMKE Turandot, a play by Carlo Gozzi based on a traditional Chinese myth, takes us on a journey through the story of a beautiful princess who hated men. In order to escape the pressure exerted by her father, the Emperor of China, […]
Mother Courage and Her Children – Bertolt Brecht
Ziller Building | Main Stage First Performance: December 4, 2024 The masterpiece of the great playwright, author, and poet Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, premieres on December 4 on the Main Stage of the Ziller Building, directed by Stathis Livathinos. A profoundly anti-war play and at the same time a powerful parable about […]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard
Kykladon Street Theatre – Lefteris Vogiatzis First Performance: February 12, 2024 The performance was restaged from October 12, 2024, to January 5, 2025. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, former classmates of Hamlet, are summoned by King Claudius to the palace to distract the melancholic prince with amusements in order to uncover the dark secret tormenting his soul. […]
King Lear — William Shakespeare
Praxis Theatre Company Premiere: Thursday, November 23, 2023 King Lear is presented at the Theatre of Kefallinias Street in an original adaptation that condenses the play, merging characters and situations into a paradoxical theatrical event, where contemporary theatrical language meets Shakespeare’s primal associations—without betraying either the spirit or, at key points, the letter of this […]
Casanova / Don Juan – Marina Tsvetaeva / Lord George Gordon Byron
Peiraios 260 (D) June 14–16, 2023 June 17–18, 2023 A performance composed around the poetic parallel between Lord Byron and Marina Tsvetaeva, who were inspired—Byron by the mythical figure of Don Juan, and Tsvetaeva by the historical figure of Casanova—separated by a century. Byron began writing Don Juan while in self-imposed exile in Italy in […]
Enemies: A Love Story – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies Premiere: March 25, 2023 The play by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies: A Love Story, will be presented by the State Theatre of Northern Greece at the Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies in March. In a stage adaptation by Roy Chen, translated by Leonidas […]
Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin
Kykladon Street Theatre — Lefteris Vogiatzes First performance: November 24, 2022 “Lykofos” Cultural Organisation by George Lykiardopoulos & POLYPLANITY Productions Following their remarkably fruitful collaboration on Alexander Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit, a performance of exceptional beauty distinguished as one of the season’s finest, the Kykladon Street Theatre and Stathis Livathinos are joining forces again to […]
Woe from Wit — Alexander Griboyedov
Kykladon Street Theatre — Lefteris Vogiatzis First performance: November 6, 2021 Produced by Lykofos Productions Alexander Griboyedov’s “Woe from Wit”, directed by Stathis Livathinos, features a 13-member company consisting of both established and upcoming actors, as well as a new, metrical translation by Elsa Andrianou. This essential text was first staged by Lefteris Vogiatzes in […]
Molière (The Cabal of Hypocrites) – Mikhail Bulgakov
The performance was made available for streaming on only one occasion, on February 6, 2021, live from the Main Stage | Ziller Building. The original title of Mikhail Bulgakov’s work, which the author began writing in 1929 facing constant obstacles as a result of bans imposed on him by the Censorship Board, was The Cabal […]
Antigone — Sophocles
Bulandra Theatre | Constanta State Theater October 24-25, Bucharest. Antigone was first staged at the Bulandra in the early 1990s and it isn’t hard to imagine how much a country of the former Eastern Bloc would have identified with the theme of rebellion and the play’s extensive symbolism. Political thought can never be separated from […]
The Suppliants – Euripides
First performance: July 5, 2019 — Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus The National Theatre of Greece and the Cyprus Theatre Organisation join forces to produce a new staging of Euripides’ iconic tragedy about war, its dead, existential anguish, dignity and female endurance. Euripides’ Suppliants is an ode to Athens, to democracy and its leaders and citizens, […]
Agamemnon – Aeschylus
National Theatre of China First performance: February 20, 2019 A co-production between the National Theatre of Greece and the National Theatre of China within the framework of a transnational artistic cooperation between the two countries’ Ministries of Culture.
Timon of Athens — William Shakespeare & Thomas Middleton
Rex Theatre — “Marika Kotopouli” Stage Preview performances from 22 to 24 June 2018 From September 27 to November 18, 2018 Repeat performances from February 7 to March 3, 2019. “Shakespeare never does anything on a small scale; he always takes on something big…” notes Stathis Livathinos. Timon, a lord of the city of […]
Aida — Giuseppe Verdi
Palais de la Monnaie 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31 May 2017. 2, 4 June 2017 SHOULD YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON LOVE WHEN DUTY CALLS? “Amneris: I love him too… I, the Pharaoh’s daughter, am your rival. / Aida: My rival! So be it – for we are of equal […]
Antigone — Sophocles
First performance: July 7 2016, Ancient Theatre of Delphi The battle for the throne of Thebes between the two sons of Oedipus, Polyneices and Eteocles, has ended. The brothers lie dead on the battlefield. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has ordered that Polyneices remain unburied for having fought against his city. However, Polyneices’ […]
The Marriage of Figaro — Pierre Beaumarchais
Megaron — Athens Concert Hall, Nikos Skalkottas Hall 7-28 February 2015 Produced by: POLYPLANITY Productions / Megaron — Athens Concert Hall The performance was repeated from October 30 to November 29, 2015. Following the success of The Iliad, a performance that was met with rave reviews both in Greece and abroad, Stathis Livathinos and […]
The Picnic — Theophrastos Sakellaridis
Megaron – Athens Concert Hall, Alexandra Trianti Hall 19-28 February 2014 Co-Production: Megaron – Athens Concert Hall | Musical and Educational Organisation of Greece “The Picnic” by T. Sakellaridis was originally presented with great success in 1915. The winner of the lottery “for the drying of the Mediterranean” becomes involved in a series of hilarious […]
Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen
Praxis Theatre Company – Main Stage First performance: 29 November 2013. Henrik Ibsen is considered the first great exponent of a cultural movement that departed from the beloved themes of the 19th century and brought everyday life and its sins to the forefront. The work, written in 1881, is speculated to have been written by […]