[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 Stage Adventure of a Gaze ...
Where does Greek Theatre Stand? Reflections on the occasion of the event "An Evening Dedicated to the Modern Greek Play", organized by Sokolis Publications. [Translation: Elena Delliou] In an attempt to support and promote modern dramaturgy, in 2005 Sokolis Publications launched a series of books on theatre; a...
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...
If there is a prevalent feeling in Maria Laina’s work, this is the sense of loneliness: a loneliness that is absolute and cannot be transcended through the presence of and contact with the Other, or through any attempts of communication with the outside world. The...
Eugene Trivizas appeared in the literary landscape in the 1980s and even though he has been involved with most literary genres, he is undoubtedly one of the most important playwrights for young audiences in the world. He has studied law and economics and is a...
Rebuilding the world from scratch and in the air[1] Through her initiatives and incessant action in the field of children’s theatre during the last four decades, Xenia Kalogeropoulou has changed a lot in the way we perceive children’s theatre. Being herself a theatre manager, actress, translator...
[Translation: Vassiliki Misiou] According to Robert Jauss, reception theory has a twofold approach to the realization of the meaning of a work: on the one hand, it plays a significant role in determining the text itself, taking into consideration the horizon of expectations of readers who...
Translation: Katerina Gournaropoulou Sakis Serefas is undoubtedly a leading figure in the literary world. Constantly alternating between different genres – from poetry to prose and theater- he never seizes to amaze us with his distinctive writing style. His intention is to narrate stories about marginalized people who...
[Translation: Elena Delliou] Yiorgos Dialegmenos’ theatre is an individual’s attempt to communication. An attempt to life. Every one of his plays is open to readings and interpretations. The world he describes exists within and around him, and his heroes have a locale, an identity, a past,...