The second appointment of the 1st Meeting of Young Artists of Southeast Europe “Ancient Drama and Politics”, Tracing Limits and Possibilities, welcomed on the scene of the ΕΜΣ Theatre a truly South-eastern production by Teatr Andra under the direction...
In the context of the 1st Meeting of Young Artists of Southeast Europe Ancient Drama and Politics, Tracing Limits and Possibilities, director Giorgos Kolovos gives a contemporary spin to Sopochles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, building a bridge between Thebes’ governance and...
The Small Theatre of Moni Lazariston hosted for four nights a homage to the late pillar of Greek Literature, Nikos Kazantzakis, in which the Athens-based Mist company tried to translate Captain Michalis «into a theatrical form» and met with...
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...
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...
With its rather interpretative take on Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Theatre T shines yet again like a lighthouse in the early-June highbrow darkness of Thessaloniki, pointing the way for all those hungry theatregoers struggling to keep their brains afloat amidst...
Athens-based Theatre of the New World boldly takes in its hands a politically charged text where two souls circumnavigate the same, dead island, looking for a speck of humanity in a paperwork ocean where dues are more important than...
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...
Thessaloniki Concert Hall, in collaboration with Athens’ Piraeus Municipal Theatre, brings to town a redeeming breath of fresh air, giving free rein to Aliki Danezi-Knutsen and her surprisingly cogent Caligula, a lucid explanation of the absurdity of logic and...
The Thessaloniki Concert Hall, in cooperation with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, gives voice to the silent gravestones of the Spanish Jews that lived, loved and strived in Salonika, singing with pride: I Have Never Forgotten You (Δε...
Ever since Homer (and earlier still), we have been haunted by the idea of finding our way back to a forlorn place we persistently and romantically call “home”. With ΝΟΣΤΟΣ (Coming Home), Koldo Vío breaks the nostalgia-laden spell and...
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...
The world is a bad place. «Teen mothers in tracksuits with fags in their mouths, smacking their kids in supermarkets, being a gran by thirty, multiplying like rats. I don’t want to bring my child into this world full...
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 small but cosy stage of Thessaloniki’s T Theatre (Theatro T) is black and bare, because the path we are going to take – led by the sure hand of Giota Festa – is inward, and it goes as...
This article is the translation into Greek of the review Brand New Ancients written by Francesco Chiaro. Translated by Arabatzoglou Stavroula.
To Festen/Οικογενειακή γιορτή μας στοιχειώνει απο το 1998 όταν ο ιδιοφυής Τόμας Βίντερμπεργκ (μέλος του δανέζικου, αντισυμβατικού,κινηματογραφικού κινήματος "Δόγμα...
For a three-day hit-and-run, the Athenian Theatre OLVIO lands in Thessaloniki with its version of Jordi Galceran’s Fuita (here FUGA, a very risky choice of words given the nationalist stance of the playwright), a condemnation of political and social...
Ever since 1998, the genius of Thomas Vinterberg (member of the Danish mavericks-only filmmaking movement Dogme 95) has been haunting us with his Festen, a raw, verité drama revolving around a terrible secret kept hidden behind the social clutches...
