One of the most well known tragedies that have been saved was chosen to be presented using as a guide its strong timelessness.

Dearest friends,
We came back on Saturday from a lovely 2-day trip to Epidavros and we would like to tell you about it, so that you make sure you join next time.
As we had already told you before, the plan was to prepare the play beforehand and this is what we did on Thursday evening. We [...]

The Greek Art Theatre – Karolos Koun & Municipal Regional  Theatre of Volos - Diagoras Chronopoulos
“God-fearing and just” but poor, Chremylos the farmer is surrounded by unscrupulous, sacrilegious men, corrupt politicians and sycophants intent on enriching themselves in an Athens ravaged by war. In Aristophanes’ final play (338 BC) the only way out lies in a [...]

Schaubühne am lehniner platz – Thomas Ostermeier
The ancient theatre of Epidaurus may prove an ideal venue for Othello (1604), a play that has been described as “Man’s tragedy enacted beneath an empty sky”.
Thomas Ostermeier, director of the celebrated Schaubühne, tackles the tale of Othello, Desdemona and the diabolical puppeteer, Iago, frantically yanking the strings of [...]

CHoROS Theatre Company – Simos Kakalas
Erofili: “I would not declare Panaretos’ passion unbefitting of me, nor reject his treaties, as long as I shall live”
Erotokritos: “Have you heard the news,
your Lord and Master has exiled me to foreign parts?”
illustration of the unique manuscript of Erotokritos (1710)
(Library of the British Museum)
From Erophile, by the “learned [...]

National Theatre of Greece – Yannis Houvardas
Blame the oracles of Phoebus”. Tormented by guilt, Orestes lays the blame on Apollo, the god who pushed him into committing an unholy act: the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra.
Debunking the gods and mocking the demagogues, Euripides’ tragedy – written in 408 BC, half a [...]

CHoROS Theatre Company – Simos Kakalas
Yet Erofili’s love led Panareton to love her so much [...] that, unbeknown to her father,
he set the preparations for their wedding in motion and slept with her. That would be the cause of great evil…”Simos Kakalas and the Choros theatre company continue to bring talent, daring and [...]

Aida
Opera in four acts
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni
Based on a scenario by Auguste Mariette
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CITY OF ATHENS
The Greek National Opera presents its second production (after Norma) this summer at the Herodes Atticus Odeon: Aida, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas, in a production based on Dino Yannopoulos’s historic [...]

National Theatre of Northern Greece – Sotiris Hadzakis

As the Peloponnesian War rages for the sixth consecutive year and Athens
is slowly dying,Dikaiopolis decides to enlist in the fight for peace.
Having negotiated a private truce with Sparta,he persuades the largest
Athenian demos (municipality)—the Acharnians: battle-hardened
veterans of Marathon—to agree to it, and opens up the market
where the [...]

In the 18th century, the century of Enlightment, where, through the spread of the knowledge that was promoted by the encyclopaedists, rationalism prevailed, just as the condemnation of authority and social injustice, the awakening of the human spirit, a boy is born in Anopoli Sfakia, in Crete.