[Translation: Vasiliki Misiou] * Think of yourself as … a victim of your bilingualism: on the one hand, the language of things, what your inner voice suggests, and, on the other hand, the language of approaching the others (the theatre is, in principle and, eventually, a meeting...
[Translation: Elina Palaska] Chrisa Spilioti, an actor, a playwright and a director, is theatre's "new woman", so much a creator as a performer: she knows her art in depth and she establishes her own view in terms of both drama and performance. She made her presence...
The Game of “Reality” It should be stressed from the very beginning that it is difficult to introduce an artist who is in his mature period, because his career is ongoing, which means that a lot more is to follow until the completion of his artistic...
Loula Anagnostaki’s work constitutes a series of heroic chants towards the exit, a series of humble hymns to freedom. The focus of her playwriting is man and his need to be free, to feel that he is always able to change his life and has...
The Stage Adventure of a Gaze ...
Translation: Elena Delliou In 2009, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti directed Howard Barker's Gertrude (Le Cri) – a rewriting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet – at the Odéon Theatre in Paris. Two years later, he returned to that same theatre to stage Dimitris Dimitriadis’ The Circle of the Square. Not...
[Translation: Elina Palaska] Dimitris Finitsis wrote his first plays using pseudonyms, and to be more exact using his great grandmothers' last names. The fallacy of fatherhood was dissolved in 2010, when his plays were published by Egokeros publishing, under the general title Dominatrix. In 2005, under...
Images of Reversal Apart from being a theatre critic, filmmaker and writer, Angeliki Darlasi is also a serious dramatist, with prestigious awards in her resume. Her work is characterized by a specific worldview; an ascertainment that – although it may sound self-evident – cannot be automatically...
[Translation: Elina Palaska] Maria Efstathiadis' adventures within the realm of writing begin in 1987. As it usually happens, writing derives from reading, and Efstathiadis had a close relationship with books from a young age. She was nurtured by the French language and culture as a child...
Drawing word and emotional landscapes on stage Akis Dimou is one of the most acclaimed representatives of the new generation of Greek playwrights. What we can see, nearly after twenty years of the performance of his first play …and Juliet produced in the Experimental Scene of...