The Iliad – Homer
Peiraios 260, stage D 4-8 June 2013 Homer’s Iliad is presented on stage for the first time worldwide. Stathis Livathinos directs all 24 rhapsodies. The Iliad, a classical work, representative of ancient Greek civilization at its peak, is dramatically reworked and approached with a contemporary artistic perspective. It is precisely this combination of the classical […]
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reprise of the performance from the 2007-2008 season. From April 19th to May 20th, 2012. Written in 1868-69, The Idiot undoubtedly ranks among the forefront of world literature and is one of the most significant works of the great Russian author. Dostoevsky tackles a daring question for his time, concerning how a pure, incorruptible, innocent, […]
Erotokritos – Vitsentzos Kornaros
First performance: November 18, 2011 Director Stathis Livathinos selected Erotokritos, an iconic work composed by the poet Vitsentzos Kornatos, influenced by the French medieval novel Paris et Vienne, but also by the works of the Italian Renaissance, while always retaining its quintessential Hellenic approach. The work is divided into five parts. The first part […]
The Murderess – Alexandros Papadiamantis
Praxi Theatre Company, Stage A First performance: November 9, 2011 The performance was reprised during the 2012-2013 season. First performance: October 17, 2012 The Murderess is an extreme work. A psychological study and a denunciation. A concealed confession. A personal testimony hidden under the façade of a “social” narrative. It captures Papadiamantis’ expression at its […]
Danton’s Death – Georg Büchner
Stegi — Onassis Foundation, Main Stage From January 20 to February 18, 2011 The performance was reprised at the International Büchner Festival in Giessen, Germany on June 29, 2013, with Haris Charalambous replacing Dimitris Mylonas and Giorgos Christodoulou replacing Efthymis Pappas. Danton’s Death, Georg Büchner’s first play, which he wrote in 1835 at the […]
The House of Bernarda Alba – Federico García Lorca
Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage A First performance: November 3, 2010 In the curious, poetic, and surreal world of Federico García Lorca, family and society antagonise those that they deem unworthy, and only a few can seek freedom and pay its price. In a highly dramatic work, perhaps his best, Lorca creates portraits of […]
Carmen – Georges Bizet, Prosper Mérimée
Performed at the interior courtyard of a neoclassical building in Metaxourgeio. First performance: July 1, 2010 Last performance: July 15, 2010 Reprise: Kappa Theatre, 2011 First performance: March 4, 2011 An extremely demanding art form, opera has ceased to exclusively engage artists of the genre and address a particular audience. In facing the high artistic […]
The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
Praxi Theatre Company Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage A First performance: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 A house in the countryside with the most beautiful cherry orchard in the area is on the brink of bankruptcy and collapse. The almost indifferent bourgeois owners do nothing to keep it from being sold. They are losing their beloved […]
Beast on the Moon – Richard Kalinoski
Dolichos Theatre Conpany, Poreia Theatre First performance: October 23, 3009 Reprise of the performance “Beast on the Moon” originally presented during the 1999-2000 season. The performance was dedicated to the memory of Giannis Kiriakidis. From October 13 to 16, 2011 at the Badminton Theatre. From December 29, 2011 to January 8, 2012 at the “Egnatia” […]
King Lear — William Shakespeare
First performance: Royal Theatre, February 28, 2009 Last performance: May 24, 2009 National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia: 29-30 May 2009 Reprise: Pallas Theatre November 7 – December 5, 2010. King Lear is regarded by many as Shakespeare’s greatest creation. The existential anguish of man, his tragic confrontation with fate, old age, death, and madness, […]
The Visit – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage A First performance: November 18, 2008 A parable on the omnipotence of money Claire Zachanassian, an eccentric, immensely wealthy old woman arrives to the impoverished, dying town where she was born and raised. Everyone hopes that she will help her destitute homeland. The old woman offers to provide them […]
The Playboy of the Western World – John Millington Synge
First performance: November 12, 2008 Last performance: March 29, 2009 The play was written 100 years ago, in 1907, and could have been created by any of the great playwrights of the past two centuries. In the village of Mayo, in the outskirts of the Western world, on the steep slopes of Catholic Ireland, […]
Masquerade – Mikhail Lermontov
Peiraios 260, stage D 25-27 June 2008 “Pushkin wrote The Queen of Spades; it is the story of a gambler. Gogol wrote The Gamblers; it is the story of a gambler. Lermontov wrote Masquerade; it is the story of a gambler. Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler; it is the story of a gambler. Here is […]
Vassa Zheleznova – Maxim Gorky
Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage A First performance: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 Vassa Zheleznova – versions of a mother The three-act drama Vassa Zheleznova was written in 1910, exactly five years after the strike at the factories of Petersburg, the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin, and the historical popular uprisings that were drowned in […]
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
National Theatre of Greece — Experimental Stage Apo Michanis Theatre — Stage A First performance: October 19, 2007 After Crime and Punishment, where the narrative dovetails perfectly with the gradual disclosure of a deadly secret, in The Idiot, Dostoevsky falls to the opposite extreme. He now plans to describe a man who has nothing […]
Isadora — John Dos Passos
Athens Festival To Scholeion, Stage B First performance: June 19, 2006 Last performance: June 20, 2006 “My friends, I am heading towards glory…” Fotini Papadodima brings to life Isadora Duncan, the great revolutionary of dance, the barefoot dancer in the short tunic, who broke away from the establishment of her time, before being strangled by […]
Dark Man’s Gaze – Ignacio del Moral
Apo Michanis Theatre – Main Stage First performance: Friday 17 March 2006 Last performance: Sunday 21 May 2006 Every work is a response to a kind of challenge, which serves as a trigger to activate the mysterious mechanisms that ultimately lead to the production of a text. In this case, as it has happened […]
A Dream Play – August Strindberg
National Theatre of Greece — Experimental Stage Apo Michanis Theatre — Main Stage First performance: November 11, 2005 Last performance: January 8, 2006 “A Dream Play is the work that I love the most, the child of my greatest pain.” Behind this myth (the Dream) lies the mystical perception that life is a noose […]
Molière (The Cabal of Hypocrites) – Mikhail Bulgakov
National Theatre of Greece — Garage First performance: November 19, 2004 Last performance: May 22, 2005 The Cabal of Hypocrites or Molière Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Cabal of Hypocrites, perhaps better known by its second title, Molière, was originally staged at the Moscow Art Theatre on February 16, 1936. However, following a libellous article in […]
That Which Has No End: 20th Century Greek Poetry – Version ΙΙ
Original production 2003-2004 season, National Theatre of Greece — Garage (Foyer) February 15 – May 16, 2004 Reprise 2004-2005 season, National Theatre of Greece — Garage (Foyer) November 30, 2004 — May 17, 2005 17 actors interpret and recreate 29 poems by Greek poets.