Edelweiss Bells (Οι Καμπάνες του Edelweiss) Katerina Gotsi 27/02/2015 If there is one mainstream show at the moment in Athens, one that would attract wider audiences - for a number of reasons not necessarily related to t...
Hamlet (Άμλετ) Katerina Gotsi 11/02/2015 In Houvardas’ modern dress rendering of Shakespeare's Hamlet, violence and eroticism - sometimes intertwined - abound; recurring instances of physical...
This Too Will Pass (Θα Περάσει Κι Αυτό) Katerina Gotsi 07/12/2014 Epitheorisi is a uniquely Greek theatrical genre, a kind of music hall or variety revue that has been especially popular with Greek audiences througho...
The Missing Ones: An Interesting Life (Οι Aγνοούμενοι: Μια Ενδιαφέρουσα Ζωή) Katerina Gotsi 23/11/2014 Ηere, nobody lives. Here, nobody remembers, says Mina devastated at the epilogue of The Missing Ones: An Interesting Life. As Katsikonouris’ play reac...
Mephisto (Μεφίστο) Katerina Gotsi 27/10/2014 If the National Theatre of Greece had staged Mephisto, say, five years ago, the show wouldn’t have the resonances that it has for the Athenian audienc...
Amor Katerina Gotsi 16/04/2014 “Profit”, “take”, “dollars”, “consume”, “capacity”, “interest”, “buy”, “credit”, “stock”, “takes” “buy”, “sell”; in Theodoros Terzopoulos’ new product...
Cyrano de Bergerac Katerina Gotsi 13/04/2014 Large scale theatrical productions in big venues, although popular, are often treated with suspicion by Athenian audiences. Aiming at a larger target ...
Black Eggs (Αυγά Μαύρα) Katerina Gotsi 31/03/2014 The war is never over, when it officially ends. The trauma often haunts its survivors for the rest of their lives – especially those who were hatched ...
Alone with Hamlet (Μόνος Με Τον Άμλετ) Katerina Gotsi 14/02/2014 As the audience is admitted into the palatial auditorium of the splendid, recently restored, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, an actor onstage - seated i...
The Merchant of Venice (Ο Έμπορος της Βενετίας) Katerina Gotsi 01/02/2014 Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is a comedy full of contradictions: loyalty and betrayal, fairy tale and harsh reality, gaiety and tragedy, love ...
