Maya Delivoria writes plays for children and adolescents. I don’t know if she would write for adults if she did another job. As a dramatist, she has worked with students of all ages for almost twenty years. Her involvement with the repertoire of children and...
Is she really the most important "angry" playwright of her generation, an original representative of the Greek "in-your-face" dramaturgy? Up to now, those who took on the shortcomings, unmasked and decried the falsehood, caught the dangling limps and denounced fraud are not few. Personally, however,...
"I love life very much, but this does not mean that I do not see the reality. Our very nature, our making, compels us to carry on, to cherish even that which we loathe. " Y.M Yiannis Mavritsakis’ plays have caused a sensation wherever and however...
[Translation: Elina Palaska] Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou's dramaturgy has a very clear and basic theme: the indistinguishable and elusive boundaries between reality and fantasy. Using the improvisational power, the livelihood of the dialogues and fantasy, he manages to create worlds that have the elements of the skit and...
[Translation Elena Delliou] Since 1993 when his first work was staged and until today, Panagiotis Mentis is a constant presence in Greek playwrighting. The thematic foci of his dramaturgy are love, family life, homo homini lupus, the degeneration of the social fabric, climbing and meta-pratism, solitude, and...
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;...
Pavlos Vrellis founded a museum in Ioannina and in some way he feels skeptical ...