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...
The 52nd Dimitria Festival has begun. This self-confident international theatre, visual art, dance, film and music festival revives Thessaloniki under the guidance of a very specific common thread: «the path of renewal and extroversion. The path of dialogue and...
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...
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...
After almost a month full of events, performances and workshops, the end is nigh for the Dimitria Festival. But before the last curtain falls, there is still much to say and much to hear. Amer Mosafer’s Israfil’s Trumpet, by...
On 25 October 1917, the whole world stood still, watching as a crowd of armed citizens gathered outside of Petrograd’s Winter Palace, waiting for the order to change their society once and for all. 100 years later, we find...
For two more shows, one of Thessaloniki’s oldest houses, the so-called Bensousan Han, hosted in its decrepit rooms blurred by the passing of time The Life of Eustratius – First Writing, a suggestive tale narrated with the torn rhythm...
After more than 300 shows around Greece throughout the years, Dimitris Tarlow’s take on his grandfather and renowned writer M. Karagatsis’ novel The Great Chimera arrives in Thessaloniki with a new set design that dazzles an easily awe-struck audience...
We are at war. Apparently with everyone, but mostly with ourselves. The Self is under siege, and we are on both sides of the walls, clawing at our own throats to destroy that dreadful Otherness which undermines our beautiful...
RiSko Theatre Company brings to the Greek audience Catalan playwright Josep María Miró’s reflection of the world in a raindrop, Nerium Park, a psychological thriller that brilliantly investigates the nuts and bolts of a couple as well as today’s...
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...
For three days only, the first musical from the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, a «work full of powerful melodies based on Cornaro’s masterpiece», Erotokritos, will be in town at Thessaloniki’s Concert Hall, reminding us of all...
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...
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...
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...
Inspired by Fela Kuti, the Nigerian composer, saxophonist, orchestrator, political activist and founder of the afrobeat, Serge Aimé Coulibaly presents a performance during which politics is brought out to be something greater than a simple dramaturgical note.
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Since 2017 will be the “Year of Nikos Kazantzakis”, the National Theatre of Northern Greece decided to pay its personal homage to the giant of Greek literature with a theatrical version of Salvatores dei (aka Ascesis: The Saviours of...
The 3rd Forest Festival of the National Theatre of Northern Greece hosts for two days only a dance performance focused on existence and its ghastly enemy: us. With strength and determination, the fourteen dancers led by Katerina Antoniadou lead...
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...
The Curtain Theatre (Θέατρο Αυλαία) of Thessaloniki opens its doors to one of its most controversial late national poets, Yannis Ritsos, revived for the occasion by director Dimos Avdeliodis and actress Veroniki Argentzi, who take Ελένη (Helen) out for...
As many theatres around the world do, so does the NTNG offer a series of online shows in these trying times, forcing us to wear our best dresses for an evening out on our couches with Chrysa Spilioti’s Who...
Mechanical shadows genuflecting in the darkness, bodies that ripple like drops of water moved by an impish hand, a trial by combat that loses itself in the formality of an arbitrary authority, the machinery of History that grunts and...
Inspired by the massacre of 69 people by Anders Breivik in 2011 in Norway, Daniel Greig’s work The Events (2013) attempts at grasping the unthinkable and exploring the limits of forgiveness in the face of monstrosity.
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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...
