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...
In Houvardas’ modern dress rendering of Shakespeare's Hamlet, violence and eroticism - sometimes intertwined - abound; recurring instances of physical...
Epitheorisi is a uniquely Greek theatrical genre, a kind of music hall or variety revue that has been especially popular with Greek audiences througho...
Ηere, nobody lives. Here, nobody remembers, says Mina devastated at the epilogue of The Missing Ones: An Interesting Life. As Katsikonouris’ play reac...
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...
Large scale theatrical productions in big venues, although popular, are often treated with suspicion by Athenian audiences. Aiming at a larger target ...
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 ...
As the audience is admitted into the palatial auditorium of the splendid, recently restored, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, an actor onstage - seated i...
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is a comedy full of contradictions: loyalty and betrayal, fairy tale and harsh reality, gaiety and tragedy, love ...
