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...
A mixture of dance, fashion, music and lights swept through Athens Concert Hall, wreaking havoc among a very divided audience with Sasha Waltz & Guests’ second part in the trilogy of the Body: Kreatur, a primordial narration of human...
Inured by solipsistic plays highlighting the greatness of a society that always struggled to reach the stars of the glorious past with its feet firmly stuck in the mud, Thessaloniki theatregoers finally have a rare chance to bite into...
Thessaloniki-based Oberon Art Group brings to the always-atypical T Theatre its personal take on Lorca’s The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden, adding to the age-old question of how to deal with a classic in our...
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...
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...
A girl goes to the club on a Saturday night and never arrives back home. This is the simple premise on which director Yiannis Paraskevopoulos is called to work on by Kozani’s Municipal and Regional Theatre, a sadly notorious...
For three days only, the Dancers of the North present their new production to Thessaloniki’s audience, retelling the well-known tale of Dorian Gray in a new, affected guise that does not do justice to Oscar Wilde’s acute analyses of...
New year, new collaborations. The National Theatre of Northern Greece presents Hugh Leonard’s Da as seen by Dimosthenis Papadopoulos, nurturing great expectations (and great support by the Greek National Tourism Organization for the new English super-titling programme) for a...
Thirty years after its first appearance on Greek stages, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder returns in the country with a double direction that struggles to breathe new life into this iconic play about...
With a series of presentations in various venues, directress Eleana Tsichli brings to the audience her vision of a controversial yet beloved poet of last century, giving evidence of an exquisite aesthetic sensitivity and a wise use of her...
Tempestuous Desires of my Heart blends Cretan folk lyricism with an abstract and modern setting in an attempt to find an answer to the forever unanswerable question: “What is love?”. A boy, a woman, a mother and a man...
«Filth is not filth everywhere. In other words, if you see a plougher covered in sludge in a church, you’d call him filthy. But if you see him covered in sludge in a field, you’d call him worthy», says...
Between the old walls, an iron staircase, a few pots of flowers and a mattress for bed, one wonders what the miracle is. Iakovos Kambanellis’ play, The Backyard of Miracles, gives the opportunity to the Greek audience to stand...
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...
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...
Take an ancient house with squeaking doors, jolty floorboards and a lingering smell of foreboding, fill it with an audience and let the actors lead them from room to room, disentangling a domestic drama magnified by the unbearable pressure...
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...
The joining link between Vader and Kind, Moeder is the latest and as of yet cruellest play by Belgian dance company Peeping Tom. Set in a violently intimate cabinet of curiosities, this disquieting mixture of theatre and dance ponders...
Half-way through its journey, the Dimitria Festival gives the floor to Kostas Filippoglou’s Black Snow – A Dead Man’s Memoir, a ravishing and quixotic interpretation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s unfinished novel of the same name. Seven actors run, walk, fall...
Budapest, Hungary, 1980, Eastern bloc. The Socialist Workers’ Party is in power, and everyday life has to find its way among a police state, spies, self-publishing dissidents and a culture that is not willing to be vanquished by communist...
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...
Yet another company from Athens comes knocking at Thessaloniki’s doors, again with a classical text from 20th century literature. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando takes the Small Theatre Moni Lazariston by storm with Amalia Kavali’s breathless show of histrionic prowess that...
The last appointment with the 1st Meeting of Young Artists of Southeast Europe Ancient Drama and Politics, Tracing Limits and Possibilities indulges on a change of course, presenting A4M’s latest production, Prometheus Bound, a performance/installation with a body, a...
