One would expect that, with his calendar situation Easter in early May, theater traffic would be limited until the summer. And yet. May’s short season holds up well, though. And it has everything from great transfers and winter hits that get an extension to premieres of new Greek dramas on smaller stages.

  • “Marikes” at Eller Theatre

The story of a woman who lived in the Greek countryside, fell in love with a rebel during the Civil War and was married by a consul to wash away the “shame”. On the occasion of this story, here follows a record of personal testimonies of women from different cities of Greece and with different social backgrounds. Documentary theater with stories of women, most of whom lived in violent environments Directed by Katerina Adamara and Iolika Poulopoulou. With Ioanna Zerva, Mary Logothetis, Areti Makroleivaditi, Anna Margaritidou, Maria Eleni Papatriandafillou.

*From May 8

  • “An Enemy of the People” at the Rectifier Theater

Performance

After directing her at “Dream Drama” of Strindberg at the National Theater, Georgia Mavragani tackles another classic work, this time with the signature of Henrik Ibsen. A political work, which captures the moral dilemmas and decisions that every citizen is called upon to face. In the performance, six actors – Irini Adamou, Vangelis Ambatzis, Giorgos Zygouris, Yiannis Katsimihas, Stefanos Lolos, Stavros Tsitsopoulos – will narrate and represent the history of the small coastal town of Skien as a dramatized document of an assembly, where all the background and the politicians and personal manipulations are slowly coming to the surface.

*From May 9

  • “Blood on the stage” at the Contemporary Theatre

Performance

Charles Ludlam’s madcap comedy – a notable case of the New York counterculture of the 70s – taps into “Hamlet” (and more) to satirize theater life through the eyes of a third-rate family troupe. A largely unknown text that is staged for the first time in Greece, directed by Tassos Pyrgieris with his constant collaborators Thanos Lekkas, Alexandros Varthi, Rena Kypriotis, Christos Stathousi, Phoebus Markiano, Marilena Moschou and Maki Nano.

*From May 10

  • “Waiting for Godot” at Stegi

Performance

Having already received rave reviews in Italy where it premiered as well as at stops on its world tour, Theodoros Terzopoulos’s direction of Samuel Beckett’s monumental work rises to the stage of Stegi. It is the first performance by Terzopoulos (co-produced by Emillia Romagna Teatro) that comes as a return to Stegi, marking his return to the major Greek theaters, apart from ‘Attis, his personal roof. Studying Beckett, the international Greek director explains that his gaze “is placed on the ruins of the world”, in a future, more or less, close to us, where all the wounds of the present and the past remain open. In the roles of Vladimir and Estragon the important Italian actors Stefano Randisi and Enzo Vetrano.

*From May 15 to 19

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