Tale Without a Name by Penelope Delta
Katina Paxinou Children’s Theatre
Directed by Takis Tzamargias

A hundred years after it was first published, Penelope Delta’s Tale without a name remains one of Greece’s best-loved stories for young and old alike and an exciting allegorical story with an unexpectedly topical message.
First performance: 12/10/2010
Last performance: 15/05/2011


The Iliad
Ziller - Hall
Every year, the “Ancient Heritage, New Perspectives” cycle of productions will present works from ancient Greek literature 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.

First performance: 14/10/2010
Last performance: 07/04/2011


The Theatrical Illusion by Pierre Corneille
Ziller Building – Main Stage
Directed by Dimitris Mavrikios

This masterpiece of French classicism is presented in a version adapted and directed by Dimitris Mavrikios, who also translated the play (in rhyme, as the original). It features a cast of outstanding actors of the older and younger generation and guarantees a magical theatrical experience.

First performance: 20/10/2010
Last performance: 30/01/2011

The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Directed by Katerina Evangelatou

In the new play by the multi-award-winning German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, which has received prizes at two major German festivals this year, five accomplished performers narrate, comment on and act multiple characters, creating, with humour and simplicity, a mosaic of intersecting lives whose common denominator is the silent cry of contemporary society, “I wish I was someone else.”

First performance: 22/10/2010
Last performance: 05/12/2010


Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ziller Building – Main Stage
Directed by Yannis Houvardas

Emilia Galotti is an emblematical piece of the Enlightenment and one of the prime plays of the 18th century. It Is a text that brings up the problem of self-determination and a young person’s wish for freedom, attacking the conservative structures and the social morals of the period. However the spectator of 21st century easily realizes that the mechanisms of power are even today stiff and inaccessible, putting the existence of modern individuals through ordeal.

First performance: 19/11/2010
Last performance: 06/03/2011


Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Directed by Efi Theodorou

Written in 1959, the play is about the free fall of a young man and a mature woman from dream to raw reality. It is staged for the first time at the National Theatre of Greece.

First performance: 16/12/2010
Last performance: 30/01/2011


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Ziller Building – Main Stage
Directed by Nikos Karathanos

A brilliant work of 19th century romanticism, a spectacular production in which love and honour are tested in theatres, confectioneries, courtyards, fields of battle and monasteries, causing effortlessly laughter and emotion.

First performance: 17/12/2010
Last performance: 17/04/2011

The Holiday Trilogy by Carlo Goldoni
Ziller Building – Main Stage
Directed by Nikos Mastorakis

The Venetian playwright uses abundant humour and bitter irony in order to criticize his compatriots’ passion for ostentation via luxurious holidays, characterizing it as “mania and disorder”. And yet, up to our days, certain mentalities remain exactly the same, undermining dignity and humiliating the human existence.

First performance: 4/02/2011
Last performance: 15/05/2011


Platonov by Anton Chekhov
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Lovers, debts, alcohol, boredom and monotony characterise the lives of the guests of the attractive widow Anna Petrovna, until the arrival of a young teacher, Platonov, who will have a profound effect on their stagnant existence. Comedy and melodrama vary without interruption just like in real life. The production is based on a modern adaptation by David Hare.

First performance: 10/02/2011
Last performance: 27/03/2011

Trisevgeni by Costis Palamas
Ziller Building – Main Stage
Directed by Lydia Coniordou

Like a fairy in the human world, with a poetic, fluid and undefined existence, Trisevgeni pays no heed to moderation and reason. Her freedom, bewitching and frightening, cannot be subjugated. One of the most important pieces of modern Greek dramaturgy, Trisevgeni, is a poetic and symbolic play. Written in 1902, the unique theatrical work of important poet Costis Palamas constitutes a conscious effort to elevate Greek theatre.

First performance: 11/03/2011
Last performance: 15/05/2011


The Mother of the Dog by Pavlos Matesis
Ziller Building – Nikos Kourkoulos New Stage
Directed by Nikita Milivojević

Pavlos Matesis re-writes in theatrical form his brilliant novel and gives with his own unique way, sometimes sharp-tongued and sometimes humorous, on occasion dramatic and surreal, his view on a period of modern Greek history. Emblematical Rarau becomes the symbol of a generation that will never stop fighting in the daily track of life. From the German Occupation to the present day, Rarau’s story, like the story of Greece, that she recaptures, is a battle for survival.
 
First performance: 07/04/2011
Last performance: 15/05/2011

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