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12.10.2010
Tale without a name
KATINA PAXINOU CHILDREN’S THEATRE
The king of a faraway land has emptied his country's coffers in order to pursue his own pleasure and enjoyment. The suffering people gradually abandon the kingdom, until the king's son decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his younger sister, he embarks on a series of adventures which are beset with difficulties. In the end, his bravery and his unshakeable faith in his fellow man help him restore to the land everything that it has lost...
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14.10.2010
The Iliad
ZILLER - HALL
ANCIENT HERITAGE, NEW PERSPECTIVES A stage presentation of Homer's Iliad in a translation by Dimitris Maronitis. Every year, the “Ancient Heritage, New Perspectives” cycle of productions will present works in ancient Greek adapted for the stage. The cycle will begin this year with Homer's Iliad. To mark the completion of its translation by the great classical scholar Dimitris Maronitis, the National Theatre has invited some of Greece’s most important actresses to present the 24 rhapsodies of this great work in an original staged version. Each week, a new rhapsody will be performed by a different actress, each bringing Homer's epic to life in her own inimitable style...
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20.10.2010
The Illusion
ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE
Worried about the long disappearance of her son, who she has driven away from home with her strictness, a mother goes to see a famous sorcerer. He reveals to her – and to the audience – the adventures that have put the young man’s life in danger and his ultimate dedication to the art of the theatre....
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22.10.2010
The golden dragon
ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE
Five characters narrate a strange and complex story that centres on “The Golden Dragon”, an Asian restaurant located somewhere in central Europe. Against a background of exotic orders and swiftly changing images, we witness moments from the lives of 15 people who live and work almost on top of one another in a modern multi-ethnic community. At the centre of the story are a young Chinese man suffering from toothache, and his sister, imprisoned just a few metres away from him....
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19.11.2010
Emilia Galotti
ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE
The prince of Guastalla has been neglecting both his duties and his mistress, the Countess Orsina. The reason is a woman named Emilia Galotti, with whom he has become obsessed. Determined to do anything to make her his, he and his adviser hatch a plan to prevent her imminent marriage by in which abducting her and murdering her fiancé. When she ends up in the hands of the prince, his refusal to return her to her father has unforeseen and tragic consequences...
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17.12.2010
Cyrano de Bergerac
ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE
The eccentric Cyrano, an illustrious Gascony cadet, conjures up verses as easily as he wins sword fights. He is famed not only for his bravery and his poetry, but also for his nose, and if the first two have enabled him to carry all Paris before him, the third prevents him from gaining his heart's desire, his young cousin Roxanne...
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17.12.2010
Sweet bird of youth
ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE
In the company of a once-famous actress, Alexandra del Lago, the young and ambitious Chance Wayne returns to his hometown, a place where violence, survival of the fittest and racism now predominate. The two of them, fearful of time’s relentless forward march, take refuge in their dreams of fame and fortune...
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10.02.2011
Platonov
ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE
Love affairs, discussions of debts, drink, boredom and monotony are the landscape in which the guests on the veranda of the attractive widow Anna Petrovna lead their lives, until the arrival of a young teacher, Platonov, who will have a profound effect on their stagnant existence...
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16.02.2011
The holiday trilogy
ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE
Leonardo and his sister Vittoria are preparing feverishly to depart for the country. Social convention demands that they live a life of luxury, yet their debts are so great that this has become an impossibility. They cannot afford to go, but how can Leonardo stay behind when his beloved Giacinta is also leaving for the summer accompanied by a handsome young rival?...
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12.03.2011
Trisevyene
ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE
Like a fairy in the human world, with a poetic, fluid and undefined existence, Trisevyene pays no heed to moderation and reason. Her freedom, bewitching and frightening, cannot be subjugated. She falls in love with and marries the son of her father's sworn enemy, intensifying the vendetta between the two families and bringing her father's curse upon her. The social bonds that she paid no heed to when she was free are no easier to bear now that she is married...
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07.04.2011
The mother of the dog
ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE
The life of Raraou, “the great star of theatrical revue” as she styles herself, is related through flashbacks of a society attempting to get by in the midst of poverty. From the Occupation to the present day, Raraou’s story, like the story of the Greece about which she reminisces, is a battle for survival....
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