“You might be interested to know that Peer Gynt was a real person. He lived in Gudbrandsdal, probably at the end of the last or the beginning of this century,” wrote Ibsen to his publisher in 1867.
If Peer Gynt did indeed exist, he must have been full of contradictions, either a liar or a fantasist. He challenged life head-on or shrank from it, attempted the impossible or avoided everything, defied reality or tried to run away from it, chased fortune or was a slave to wishful thinking, travelled to the ends of the earth or wandered around locations that he could see only in his mind’s eye, searched for himself or for an escape, was “enough to himself”, so that he would go down in history, or remained a simple, humble “button”, like most people.
Ibsen’s masterpiece, inspired by Norwegian fairy-tales and legends, is a romantic work that manages at the same time to be absolutely modern, about a blind Odyssey of the West, about dreams and the path to their realisation. Or perhaps their
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Saturday & Sunday premium seats €22
Zone A €17
Zone B (lower circle) €15
Friday (single price) €13
Wednesday, Thursday (single price) €15
On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the performance is accompanied by English surtitles.
creation team
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Giorgos P. Depastas
Translator -
Dimitris Lignadis
Direction & Adaptation -
Eleni Gini
Dramaturg -
Apollon Papatheoharis
Designer -
Sakis Birbilis
Lighting -
Giannis Christodoulopoulos
Music -
Anastasia Valsamaki
Movement -
Anastasia Diamantopoulou
Assistant director -
Maria Zygouri
Assistant costume designer -
Sotiris Mitsoulas
Assistant set designer -
Mara Vlachopoulou
Second assisting director -
Erie Kyrgia
Dramaturg
cast
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Michalis Afolayan
Aslak -
Stefania Goulioti
Ase -
Ieronymos Kaletsanos
A lean person, The Button Molder -
Dimitris Lignadis
Peer Gynt -
Dimitris Mothonaios
Peer Gynt -
Νancy Boukli
Solveig, Dairymaid -
Zoe Mylona
Ingrid, Anitra, Dairymaid -
Panos Papadopoulos
Peer Gynt -
Katerina Patsiani
Kari, Dairymaid -
Vangelis Romnios
A Pastor -
Gioulika Skafida
A green-clad woman, A stranger passenger -
Spiros Tsekouras
Dovregubbens, The troll King -
Yannis Tsoumarakis
Peer Gynt -
Giorgis Tsouris
Mats Moen, Begriffenfeldt -
Andriani Giakoumelou
Keyboards operator -
Marios Karabotis
keyboards operator