The Athens Festival goes to the Lyceum… Katerina Evangelatos returns to the Athens Festival with a performance at Aristotle’s Lyceum, one of the city’s three most ancient public gymnasia (together with the one at Plato’s Academy and the one at Cynosarges), which was associated with the Peripatetic School, the philosophical school founded by the great Greek philosopher in 355 BC. In this archaeological site, which is mostly unknown to the wider public and covers an area of almost three acres (between the Sarogleio Mansion, the Byzantine Museum and the Athens Conservatory), the talented director Katerina Evangelatos presents Euripides’ Rhesus, intercut by texts by Aristotle. Inspired by an episode in Book 10 of Homer’s Iliad, this tragedy, which is rarely staged, denounces the abominations of war. The performance begins at sunset, taking the form of a walk round the entire area of the Lyceum, and as such it is expected to arouse the interest of foreign visitors too.
This is a co-production with the “Lycophos” production company.
«The performance is held under the auspices of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (www.visitgreece.gr)»
Information
Aristotels’ Lyceum
90′
2015-07-08 – 2015-08-09
20€, 15€ (φοιτητές, 65+), 5€
Athens Festival – Lycophos Company