Performances Friday 12.03.2010
-
20:00
Kostas Tachtsis' third wedding
Rex Theatre
In The third wedding, Greece is seen in the 1930s, during the German occupation and in the throes of civil war, through the lives of Nina and Ekavi. Their struggle for survival and for a better future is depicted with humour but also harshness, reflecting the reality in the Greece of that time, with all its contradictions, difficulties, charm and beauty. A multicoloured mosaic of human life is revealed, while in the incisive, daring, authentic writing of Kostas Tachtsis, no one is spared.
More info -
21:00
Marat/Sade
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Almost twenty years after the French Revolution, the Marquis de Sade, shut away in the Charenton Asylum, uses drama therapy to direct his fellow inmates in a play based on the murder of Jean-Paul Marat. Little by little, as the events that led to Marat’s murder unfold on the “stage”, the line between performance and reality blurs and the play becomes a biting and timely comment on the Revolution and the conflict between individual freedom and historical and social duty.
More info -
21:30
Recycle
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage Á
Something that is presumably human speaks something that is presumably a language, narrating a tragic tale of ideals, honour, values and beliefs, in which blood is shed, land is occupied, civilisations rise and fall, planets war and stars collide. It is also, however, a tale in which tenderness, innocent children’s voices, and, above all, love can be discerned. Otherwise pleasant creatures form teams, groups, associations, congregations, parties, unions, clubs, assemblies, societies, nations, states, empires, multinational companies and galactic alliances, stripping their environment of its natural resources and their very existence of its intellectual grit.
More info -
21:00
Henry Edward Richard
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage B
Three English kings in the period of civil strife known as the Wars of the Roses, a time of plots, lies and murder most foul, peopled by bellicose women, unprincipled leaders, incompetents and lechers. No promise is kept for long; no oath is sacred. Moral barriers and all the buttresses erected by society have been swept away by the thirst for power or in the race to grab a few acres of land. This abandonment of conscience is as common in today’s democracies as it was in the feudal society of medieval England.
More info -
21:00
The lady from the sea
Ziller Building – Central Stage
Ellida, trapped in a loveless marriage to Dr Wangel, seems psychologically closed off from the world and is drawn irresistibly towards the sea. However, the appearance of a mysterious stranger from the past, to whom she is bound by a terrible secret, awakens unfulfilled passion and brings her desire for freedom into conflict with her social duty.
More info