What to do today: Suggestions for theater and concerts that you can enjoy in Athens

• Wasps: Lena Kitsopoulou adapts Aristophanes’ comedy in Epidaurus

“The Wasps” by Aristophanes is a comedy that is rarely staged on the Greek stage. The play returns to the playbook of the National Theater sixty years after the performance by Alexis Solomos, in a modern transcription by Lena Kitsopoulou who signs its free adaptation and direction. In her first descent to Epidaurus, the heretical creator, surrounded by a great group of collaborators and actors, confronts a work that reflects on the pathologies of our democracy and the cracks of justice.

14, 15/7 at 21:00
5-50€
Ancient theatre of Epidavros

• Symptoms from the lack of weight, by Yiannis Skaragas at the Small Theater of Ancient Epidaurus

An original play based on the tragedy of Aeschylus, “Eumenides”, entitled “Symptoms from the lack of weight” is presented at the Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus on July 14 and 15, by the director Emily Louisou. The new creator, as part of the Contemporary Ancients of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, brings to the stage the work of the internationally awarded prose writer and playwright, Yiannis Skaragas, a story about the gravity of traumatic memory.

14, 15/7 at 21:30
€5-15
Small Theater of Ancient Epidaurus

• Noir: The Dimitris Kalantzis Quartet in the Palace Garden

The Dimitris Kalantzis Quartet, after its tribute to the great film composer Michel Legrand last November in the Banquet Hall as part of Jazz@Megaron, returns to the Athens Concert Hall, this summer, with a new jazz night in the Garden, which marks the end of this year’s events at the outdoor stage of the Megaros. The members of the Dimitris Kalantzis Quartet (piano, orchestrations), in this concert entitled “Noir”, approach through their own eyes compositions written to invest film noir, which have left their mark on history of world cinema. The musicians involved are: Giorgos Georgiadis (bass), Andreas Polyzogopoulos (trumpet) and Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis (drums).

14/7 at 21:00
€15 (general admission)
Garden of the Athens Concert Hall, Vas. Sofias & Kokkalis, Athens

• Yannis Parios at Faliro Summer Theater

Giannis Parios is coming tonight for a musical evening at Faliro Summer Theater. With him the audience will travel, fall in love, dream, miss and sing his greatest hits old and new.

14/7 at 21:00
€15-30
Faliro Summer Theater, Moraitini 2, Paleo Faliro

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