Vasilis Katsikonouris is one of the most significant modern Greek dramatists. His writing and thematic are both substantial and original, and despite his subjects’ topicality, he - as a dramatist - is anything but “topical”. On the contrary, through modern thematic actualizations he excavates, seeks and...
Alexis Stamatis, the playwright: the internal life of the heroes His capacity as a playwright is the most recent one in the rich curriculum of the multifarious personality of Alexis Stamatis, following a remarkable appearance in prose. He first appears in Greek literature, in 1992, as...
Maria Papalexi is a dramaturg with experience in speech therapy and dramatic play and, since 2008, she has been involved in this unique form of theatre for children and young adults. With her distinctive personal writing style, Papalexi makes her own mark in this area...
The light theatricality as recreational anguish Andreas Staikos’ work echoes as a very personal, special and somewhat unfamiliar voice in the landscape of modern Greek playwriting. He is completely free from the burden of the theatrical registering of Greek society, but someone who, as a true...
Paris Tacopoulos’ plays, a Theater of all times * Tacopoulos’ plays present to the viewer an unfamiliar relationship to the familiar, which is startling; that is, it acts like the centrifugal force and tears him away from ordinary interpretations. The movement, the situation, the persona and...
21st Century Material Andreas Flourakis’ dramatic work constitutes a quite representative – both qualitatively and quantitatively – sample of 21st century Greek dramaturgy; launched at the beginning of the new millennium, his drama evolves with it on paper and stage. Raised and educated in the last...
Leonidas Prousalidis wrote his first play, Seven Reasonable Answers, in 2004 and his second one, Wagon in the Water, six years later. He is a new author and young man, in whose plays – and especially his first – one can trace his interest for...
Nina Rapi is one of the very few Greek playwrights whose writing pursuits commenced abroad. Her works include 18 plays written within the last 25 years and with only one exception they have all been presented successfully on various theatrical stages. Almost all of her...
Or how laughter diminishes distances [Translation: Elina Palaska] Thanasis Papathanasiou and Michalis Reppas' writing duo started off shyly with numbers on freelance theatre revues, to continue baldly and fruitfully in the years to follow. During the twenty odd years they prevail in the show business, they HAVEundertake...
From Fairytale Drama to the Need of Accepting the Other ...