Marriage — Nikolai Gogol
A co-production between the Dolichos Theatre Company and the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani. Performed at Poreia Theatre from January 10 to March 25, 2004. The performance was also presented at the Kozani Art Forum from March 31 to April 4, 2004. The plot of the play: In the first act of this […]
A Game of Gods – Edvard Radzinsky
First performance: November 14, 2003 […] Two actors, Vitya and Nina, have been in a relationship for twenty-five years. He is married, she is in between marriages and divorces. Their relationship follows them like karma. She wonders if she will ever be able to live without this “torturous love”. When he writes a play […]
Medea – Euripides
Original production 2003 summer season July 20, 2003 — Ancient Theatre of Ohrid, Ohrid, FYROM Summary of the play: Medea’s Nurse laments the misfortunes of her mistress. The foreign princess abandoned her home to follow Jason, whom she had helped acquire the Golden Fleece. The new couple was forced to leave Iolcus, Jason’s homeland, […]
That Which Has No End: 20th Century Greek Poetry
National Theatre of Greece — Garage (Foyer) First performance: January 26, 2003 Last performance: April 20, 2004 Poems are imprints of courage and sensitivity. They do not fade away, they never “end”. This performance, however, will have to end at some point. It resembles life in that way. We encountered approximately two thousand poems, […]
Love’s Labour’s Lost – William Shakespeare
Original run 2001-2002 season April 5 — April 28, 2002 National Theatre of Greece — Garage Reprise 2002-2003 season October 8, 2002 — April 16, 2003 National Theatre of Greece — Garage […] What a strange piece! Perhaps the most ambiguous and inexplicable of all Shakespearean creations. Early, almost rudimentary (1593-1594), with charming clumsiness […]
Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet
A co-production between the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Veria and Poreia Theatre. First performance: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 The performance was staged at Poreia Theatre from November 29, 2001 to April 28, 2002. It was then presented in Veria from Wednesday, April 17 to Sunday, April 28 for a total of 10 performances at […]
Handling Bach – Paul Barz
First performance: March 20, 2001 Handling Bach is built around an imaginary encounter between Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel in 1747. Both of them born in 1685, Händel and Bach, the most significant composers of their time, meet for the first and only time in this “imaginary encounter” when Händel invites Bach […]
Homesick – Alexandros Papadiamantis
“Theatre of Actors” Company From March 12, 2001 to October 11, 2001. A performance based on the following short stories by Alexandros Papadiamantis: Love in the Harvest (1891), Homesick (1894), The Holy and the Dead (1896), Love in the Snow (1896), Dream on the Waves (1900), The Hearth (1907), The Seal’s Lament (1908).
The Romancers – Edmond Rostand
Epikentro Theatre First performance: Friday, December 8, 2000 Presented at Poreia Theatre, Athens, from February 2 to 11, 2001. …A wall, a boy, a girl, two elderly parents, and a mysterious man. The two young protagonists discover love through a utopia orchestrated by their parents with the help of a master of romanticism. The […]
The Illusion – Tony Kushner
“Dolichos” Theatre Company Originally presented from April 19 to May 28 2000 at the Apo Michanis Theatre. Reprised from December 6, 2000 to January 28, 2001 at Poreia Theatre. […] Pridamont, a lawyer from Avignon seeks news of his son, who has been missing for 15 years, eventually finding the magician Alcandre, who lives […]
Eve of Retirement – Thomas Bernhard
Praxis Theatre Company First performance: November 26, 1999 […] Written in 1979, Eve of Retirement unfolds over the course of a “dangerous” afternoon. The main characters are a former Nazi officer who now holds a high judicial position (Sofoklis Peppas) and his two sisters. The first sister (Anneza Papadopoulou) is disabled and holds left-wing […]
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
“Theatre of Actors” Company First performance: October 1, 1999 Last performance: November 21, 1999 Director’s Note After four years of creative work, I am accompanying my students in their first professional steps. I feel a sense of responsibility, pride, and joy that the flame and passions of Shakespeare’s heroes will accompany them throughout their lives […]
Beast on the Moon – Richard Kalinoski
First performance of the “Dolichos” Theatre Company. From February 5, 1999 to April 4, 1999, at the “Apo Michanis” Theatre. The performance was reprised at the same venue from November 3, 1999 to January 30, 2000. The performance was presented on May 6, 1999 at the “Amalia” Theatre, as part of the “Spring 1999 in […]
Slave Island – Pierre de Marivaux
Smili Theatre Company Apo Michanis Theatre First performance: September 29, 1998 Last performance: October 25, 1998 […] The island on which the four disembark is not paradise, but it offers the image of a society more integrated than our own, warmer, and even more complex. There, people have been corrected, they have shed their […]
Eleonora: Last Night in Pittsburgh – Ghigo de Chiara
“Theatron” Theatre Company First performance: March 4, 1998 Last performance: March 11, 1998 The performance was reprised on May 8, 1998, as part of the “Soloists and Protagonists” Festival of Lamia, under the auspices of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Roumeli. Eleonora Duse is experiencing the last day of her life. She is […]
The End of Casanova – Marina Tsvetaeva
Notos Theatre, Balcony January 14 – March 2, 1997 The performance was presented at the “Podium 1997” International Festival in Moscow on April 27, 1997. The motto used by Marina Tsvetaeva in her theatrical masterpiece (despite the fact that the translation of her text cannot preserve the unadulterated beauty of her language and verse, […]
Little Tragedies – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
The Stone Guest Mozart and Salieri Feast in Time of Plague Notos Theatre, Balcony First performance: January 6, 1996 Last performance: March 3, 1996 “In the autumn of 1830, Pushkin found himself in the village of Boldino for some business. While he initially planned to stay for about a week, the cholera epidemic that was […]
Doña Rosita the Spinster – Federico García Lorca
Katerina Vassilakou’s “Panellinio” Theatre Company First performance: Lycabettus Theatre, July 8, 1995 “[…] In the first act, Rosita, an orphan girl who lives with her aunt and uncle, is twenty years old. Her fiancé leaves for Tucumán in Latin America. She will wait for him. In the second act, she is thirty years old […]
Dying as a Country – Dimitris Dimitriadis
A co-production between the “Praxis” and “Notos” theatre companies. Kefallinias Street Theatre — Stage B First performance: February 22, 1995 Last performance: April 16, 1995 […] When I wrote Dying as a Country in January 1978, the motivating stimulus behind the piece had manifested itself some four years earlier, with the conscription of 1974. […]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard
Stathis Livathinos’ diploma project performance was presented in its initial version at GITIS during his first year of studies there, and subsequently as a complete production at the Mayakovsky Academic Theatre in 1990. The performance was awarded the Moscow Critics’ Prize and remained in the theatre’s repertoire until 2001.