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...
[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...
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...