Teatro Delusio

Teatro Delusio

The backstage is in shambles, the show is almost ready to start. Three technicians maladroitly mess about at the cables and trunks behind the scenery. Some loiter, some work hard, while others prefer to scrape by rather than give...
The «highly acclaimed company of performance artists» of the ODC Ensemble lands in Thessaloniki with its latest “shocking” and “thought-provoking” creation, The Cave, only to be welcomed with yawns and worn-out applauses for its «contemporary and experimental art».   Η «εξαιρετικά...
Το βραβευμένο πρόγραμμα «National Theatre Live», που μεταδίδει σε 2.000 αίθουσες όλου του κόσμου τις σημαντικότερες παραστάσεις του Εθνικού Θεάτρου της Μ. Βρετανίας, γιορτάζει τη 10η επέτειό του προβάλλοντας σε μαγνητοσκόπηση ανεπανάληπτες παραγωγές που ξεχώρισαν τα τελευταία χρόνια και...
What's The Word Claire?

Real Magic

Three actors, a handful of lines and an endless performance: Real Magic plays a trick on the audience, more philosophical than magical, and holds up a ludicrous mirror to Nature. Who’s laughing now?   Τρεις ηθοποιοί, μια χούφτα ατακών και μια...
The National Theatre of Northern Greece knocks once again at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival’s doors with a play by Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, showing an unexpectedly patriotic face in a very dangerous political framework that could tilt the...
Screams, insults, threats and clenched fists make the air of the Studio Theatre of the Lazaristes Monastery buzz with violence and, contextually, laughter, keeping half of the audience entertained with this comic symposium of death while the other half...
The absurd, in its strongest and absolute form, enters stage left and does not scare. On the contrary, it transports the audience in an easier world where all knots come loose, placing us right in the middle of great...
Following the frothy wake of their latest creation, the artists behind Res Ratio Network – lead once again by director Efi Birba – continue their research for deconstruction and reconstruction of the word through the body, pushing the rules...
As Hamlet averred, theatrical playing holds up a mirror to nature, but as Brecht warned, art should not just be a reflective surface, but a hammer with which to shape reality. After 70 years of silence, maybe someone has...
A fire that does not burn to its fullest potential, leaving our skin unblemished by its otherwise raging flames: this was the premiere of Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched through the eyes of Io Voulgaraki, a damp attempt at starting a...
Many things happened since she appeared on the stage of the Tanztheater Wuppertal for the first time in 1973, and ever since then, the metamorphosis of dance has continued unfazed, undefinable, irrepressible. Now, 9 years after her death, we...
Cold Blood

Cold Blood

The surface may daunt you. The depths enfold you. The whole reveals itself, and then you may return to it like a talisman. Cold Blood by Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael and the Kiss & Cry collective...
Future and Heritage, the main topics of the 53rd Dimitria Festival, could not be represented any better by Alexandra K*’s caustic play Revolutionary Ways to Clean you Swimming Pool, directed by Sarantos-Georgios Zervoulakos and presented for the first time...
Grandiosely produced, newly translated and firstly staged for the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2018, Euripides’ Orestes by NTNG’s Artistic Director Yannis Anastasakis reminds us that no matter how hard we try, within our own human means, the nape will...
Summer season is almost over, but the 4th Forest Festival still has some aces up its sleeve to keep the audience delighted and refreshed in Thessaloniki’s nights. The Greek National Theatre, in co-production with the State Theatre of Serbia,...
Electra

Electra

Our last presence at the 2nd International Forest Festival of Thessaloniki was the cherry on a cake that lasted almost two years, with more ups and downs than a ride in an amusement park. Thankfully, though, Electra by Portuguese...
Your Kingdom

Your Kingdom

The first weekend of the 2nd International Forest Festival of Thessaloniki couldn’t have gone better, with a double show of Your Kingdom from Hungarian Forte Company, who rearranges renowned writer Sándor Tar’s oeuvre into a new, unexpected and uncanny...
Vangelo

Vangelo

The 2nd International Forest Festival opens its curtain on Thessaloniki’s stages with a highly controversial and allegedly experimental play by Italian director Pippo Delbono, who brings over the Mediterranean his most mature and at the same time puerperal work,...
Passionate, precise, talented and extremely aware of their own past, the artists behind the provocative Homesickness Blues offer a honest and all-encompassing look on what it is home away from home, successfully mixing candour, sass, wit and music into...
When exposed, the hidden body forces us to face uncertainties, allowing us to see what makes sense in our being in the world. Exposing it, however, requires a strength that Calaïs and Zetes seem to lack, focused as they...
Εν Δυνάμει Theatre Company’s The Other Normal trilogy finally comes to an end with its third chapter, Horse in Love, a striking example of inclusive, social, research theatre revolving around the emotional limits we impose on ourselves in an...
For four days only, the Small Theatre Moni Lazariston fills with the blood of all those who gave their life (willingly or not) for an ideal and were brutally butchered by the unscrupulous agenda of fate. This Grave Is...
The theatre of August Strindberg is revived at the Performance Studio Vis Motrix with Creditors by Giorgos Karavasilis, who brings to Thessaloniki a theoretically riveting psychological thriller with few deceptions and lots of yawns. Il teatro di August Strindberg rivive...
Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, widows, widowers, orphans, lovers, prisoners, guards, dreamers, musicians, whores, footballers, even animals, and still, human beings, together, in a very big place with no way out and endless ways in. This and more, After the...

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