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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 National Theatre of Northern Greece presents the political comedy of Spanish playwrights Ignacio del Moral and Ernesto Caballero, The Banker Always Wins Twice, a belated catharsis on the Mediterranean economic crisis that scourged both Greece and Spain alike,...
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...
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...