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...
Stella Michailidou is part of a generation of modern playwrights that write for children. Aesthetic...
Micro-scopic and Macro-scopic perspective: two one-act plays by Artemis Moustaklidou Τhe one-act play by Artemis Moustaklidou The threat (1st State Award for playwright 1913) is written upon the tradition of neohellenic realistic theatre, from 1970 and onwards with elements from the absurd. The stylistic blending and...
[Translation: Elina Palaska] Yiannis Xanthoulis is an imaginative, whimsical, funny writer of books for children and grown-ups. His works for kids are an imaginative trip towards everyday life and our lives, and it is placed within the realm of reality and beyond it, as well. Through...
We die without having learned so many things Maxim Gorky, Franz Kafka, Kostas Giannidis, Nelly’s, Käthe Kollwitz, Lorca, Max Ernst, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Hans Christian Andersen's feminine alter ego, Phaedra and Hippolytus, Alcestis and Admetus, Narcissus. Also, some anonymous heroes: harlequins; a she-wolf;...
The Persistent Quest of Dramatic Substance Marios Pontikas’ work constitutes a diverse and multi-dimensional criticism of the - modern and postmodern - political and cultural Greek condition. Moreover, it formulates a vibrant theatrical mosaic of the Greek society, which extends from the post-civil war period to...
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 ...