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• 01.10.2011

  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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• 14.10.2011

  The Red Rock

  ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE

  Between the gardens and the rocky shore of Zakynthos, in a house with a view of the Red Rock, the young Fotini Santri is visited by her cousin, the charismatic Angelos. Far from the sophistication of an urban lifestyle and unschooled in the complexity of social norms, the beautiful and innocent Fotini, the embodiment of the natural world of the island, becomes lost in the dark labyrinth of love...

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• 21.10.2011

  The Basil Plant

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  The autocratic aristocrat Dareios Ronkalas stubbornly refuses to allow his daughter Garoufalia to marry the young man who loves her, because he is her social inferior. Unaware that Garoufalia is already pregnant, he resolves to shut her up in a monastery, attempting to impose his old-fashioned ideas by cruel and unfair means...

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• 02.11.2011

  “Foreigner”: Invisible Olga, Austras or Couch Grass

  INVISIBLE OLGA (by Giannis Tsiros) A young immigrant woman becomes the victim of human trafficking and is trapped with no hope of escape from a system with no moral code. AUSTRAS or COUCH GRASS (by Lena Kitsopoulou) A group of young friends invite a tourist in Greece to visit them at home, creating tension between them and bringing about unexpected consequences. Invisible Olga is part of Emergency Entrance, an international theatre project involving the National Theatre of Greece, Teatro Garibaldi (Italy), the Habima National Theatre of Israel, the National Theatre of Prague, the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania) and Schauspielhaus Graz (Austria). Emergency Entrance is funded by the EU Culture Programme 2007-13, in partnership with the Union of the Theatres of Europe. The programme was unveiled in Cluz in December 2010, and all the productions will be performed together at the Emergency Entrance Festival in Graz, Austria from 26 to 29 January 2012.

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• 03.11.2011

  Petros’s War

  KATINA PAXINOU CHILDREN’S THEATRE

  On 28 October 1940, war breaks out in Greece, turning the life of nine-year-old Petros upside-down. In the midst of this new and dangerous situation, the young boy sets off on a long walk full of adventure and excitement, through which he will learn to love his country above all else...

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• 16.11.2011

  Pericles

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  Desiring to create a family and a strong state, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, after various adventures, marries Princess Thaisa in the kingdom of Pentapolis. They have a daughter, Marina, but Thaisa apparently dies giving birth. Raised far from her father, the girl is sold to a brothel in Mytilene but her innate innocence protects her from the attentions of male visitors until she and Pericles are reunited...

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• 14.12.2011

  The Backyard of Miracles

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  The Backyard of Miracles paints a vivid picture of working class life in the Athenian suburb of Vyronas in the 1950s. A host of characters from different backgrounds, but united by the struggle for survival and a better life, give voice to their joys and sorrows, dreams and disappointments...

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• 21.12.2011

  Victory

  ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE

  Having been violently uprooted from their homeland, Nikos, his sister and their mother live in an industrial town in Germany, along with a large number of Greek immigrants. In the family's efforts to survive, they attempt to forget the past and adapt to a different way of life and social conventions. However, Greece and its raw wounds are hard to escape...

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• 05.01.2012

  Erofili

  ZILLER - HALL

  Erofili, daughter of Filogonos, the harsh and unjust king of Egypt, has secretly married Panaretos, one of her father’s brave soldiers. When Filogonos decides that his daughter should marry another suitor, and chooses Panaretos to act as a go-between, the clandestine union of the two young lovers comes to light. Philogonos resolves to be revenged on the couple in the cruelest, bloodiest and most macabre way…

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• 03.02.2012

  Koutroulis’s Wedding

  ZILLER BUILDING – MAIN STAGE

  A tailor, Manolis Koutroulis, falls in love with Anthousa, the daughter of a middle-class family, but she only has eyes for Leonidas, a young policeman. To avoid the prospective groom without opposing her father, Anthousa says that she will marry the illiterate Koutroulis on condition that he becomes a minister of state. Koutroulis launches his election campaign, uses every means at his disposal and appears to have achieved the impossible...

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• 22.02.2012

  Homelands

  ZILLER BUILDING – NIKOS KOURKOULOS NEW STAGE

  Homelands looks at immigration, one of the most pressing problems of society today, from a variety of viewpoints. Two pieces of post-war literature and stories of real immigrants – Greek and foreign – are the raw material for a production that approaches a sensitive topic without stereotyping, reminding us that homeland, displacement and the desire to return to ones birthplace are timeless and universal concepts.

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• 15.03.2012

  Scorched

  EPI SKINIS (Main Stage)

  Jeanne and Simon are led by their mother’s enigmatic last wish to the Middle East, where the two young people seek their true identity. The journey turns into an adventure that brings them into contact with key figures who gradually shed light on the mystery....

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• 30.03.2012

  The General Secretary

  Lambros, a wealthy provincial, dreams of high office and a life of distinction in Athens. He gives his support to his local member of parliament in exchange for a job in the public service, his ticket to the capital. His ambition is shared with his wife, Penelope, who also foresees a great future for her husband...

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