Productions
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16.09.2009
Tales from the bar of lost souls
Joint productions
In collaboration with the Cyprus Theatre Organisation and the British theatre group Imitating the Dog, the National Theatre of Greece presents Tales from the Bar of Lost Souls, an international co-production that combines modern technologies with narrative and physical techniques. The production is part of the British Council's Creative Collaboration Project, which aims to support the collaboration of artists from the countries of South East Europe and Great Britain.
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06.10.2009
Ì.Á.É.R.Ï.U.L.Á.
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage B
Sometimes they call you Maria, sometimes Mary; sometimes Maro and sometimes Maraki. Some see you as Maria from the grocery store and some as the mother of God or their heart's desire. Âut what are you really? Other people's diminutives? Other people's gazes? Or their conclusions about you? Even you view yourself as something á little better than what you are. Or at times, much worse. What are you really? Perhaps a leaky boat in an old harbour, with MAIROULA written on the side in faded letters, having your picture taken by all the tourists who want to say that they passed this way too?
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07.10.2009
Thirsty
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage Á
If we could go back in time, how would we live our lives differently? Is it possible to rekindle the dreams of adolescence, its worries and preoccupations, its hopes and rebellion, all the things that nourish and sustain young people but get lost in the harsh transition to adulthood? In this play by Wajdi Mousawad, a Lebanese-born French-speaking writer, a forensic anthropologist is prompted by dramatic circumstances to revisit people and actions that have left a mark on his life. It is a mental journey that will prove redemptive.
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13.10.2009
Nowhere
Ziller Building – Central Stage
Nowhere is a work about the physical space of the theatrical stage. Constantly changing and defined by the men and women that inhabit it, it can be countless different places while designed to be nowhere at all.
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16.10.2009
The magic pillows
Katina Paxinou Children’s Theatre
In the land of the greedy King Arpatilaos, Sundays are banned, along with birthday parties, children's playgrounds and even hiccups! Everyone works day and night to fill the king's vaults with diamonds. With his new invention, the Nightmare Pillows, the king’s fiendish adviser, Savrilios Vriselié, even plans to put an end to people's dreams so that they will work even harder, without moaning and complaining. He is thwarted, though, by a group of children, who, helped by their teacher, attempt to put an end to his terrible plot.
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30.10.2009
Zorba, the true story
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
As if led by the ghost of Alexis Zorbas, nine people discover a fantastic place where anything is possible: different ideologies coexist in harmony, while dreams and desires become reality and the mystery of life is revealed. The production is the diary of a voyage into adventure.
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13.11.2009
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.
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20.11.2009
The soiree
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage B
A soiree is a place where people come together. Were we creatures such as mosquitoes or ants, it would be something entirely natural, but as human beings, we find it a peculiar situation: neither a meeting, nor an assembly, nor a chance encounter. It involves no little dissembling, yet it also gives rise to true feelings, and Elias Kapetanakis examines both sides of the coin in this 19th century comedy.
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05.12.2009
Karagiozis shadow-theatre performances
Katina Paxinou Children’s Theatre
Athos Danellis and his group present a mixture of well-loved classics and enchanting new stories, taking young and old alike on a magical journey into the world of Karagiozis shadow-theatre.
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09.12.2009
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS!
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage Á
The gunshots heard from time to time in big cities are like incidents in a new war that seems to have taken the place of a full-scale conflict that no longer exists. Since the world seems to be going down a hallucinatory road, we must adopt a hallucinatory point of view. GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! reveals the topography of this hallucination.
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19.12.2009
Uncle Vanya
Ziller Building – Central Stage
The retired professor Serebryakov and his young wife Yelena arrive at their remote estate in the Russian provinces, which is looked after by Sonya, the professor’s daughter from his first marriage – and her uncle Vanya. Their presence disrupts the lives of the people there, disturbing delicate balances and bringing lost dreams and unfulfilled desires to the surface. The lives of the main characters, who are powerless to prevent the world around them changing, are characterised by grinding routine and ennui, errors and excuses, sexual tension and an almost surrealistic conception of reality.
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15.01.2010
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.
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22.01.2010
Don Juan
Ziller Building – Central Stage
Having abandoned yet another of his lovers, Don Juan continues to provoke the conservative establishment by challenging institutions and breaking social taboos. With irresistible charm and incisive, uncompromising intellect, he overcomes every obstacle, exposing his enemies and challenging conventional morality. In a show of supreme self-confidence, he even attempts to challenge God. Will he succeed in escaping unharmed from such an encounter?
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12.02.2010
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.
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12.02.2010
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.
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19.02.2010
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.
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14.04.2010
Titus Andronicus
Rex Theatre
General Titus Andronicus returns to Rome in triumph after his campaign against the Goths. Among his spoils is the defeated Queen Tamora. When Titus decides to sacrifice one of her sons to avenge the death of his own children, an endless cycle of violence is set in motion. The thirst for vengeance and the perversion of power trigger the most extreme human instincts, without any respite. This is a play in which human cruelty knows no limits.
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17.04.2010
Leonce and Lena
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Prince Leonce is suffocating from ennui. “I am so young and the world is so old,” as he says. He cannot rid himself of his feelings of joylessness and emptiness, and so when his father, the king, insists that he marry a princess that he has never even seen, the prince organises his escape. With the help of his attendant, Valerio, he wanders far and wide until, in Italy, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion .
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05.05.2010
Phobia: a show
Contemporary Theatre of Athens – Stage B
Phobia: from fear to spectacle. Fear as a means of control. Orchestrated and escalating panic. Loneliness in a virtual reality. This production is an attempt to recreate our own society in miniature, with absolute control being achieved through fear and spectacle.
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