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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Εμπνευσμένος από τον...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
