From the West End of London in Athens. The Onassis Foundation’s roof for another year hosts a great foreign director in his first collaboration with Greek actors. The internationally recognized British director and playwright Robert Icke signs an explosive cover of Oedipus turning the classic tragedy into a dark, fascinating political-family thriller that will captivate us. Powerful interpretations by leading Greek actors, twists, secrets and breathtaking conflicts.

After a series of sold-out performances at West End in London and at the same time with Broadway in New York, the Olivier-award-winning production of Sophocles’ tragedy arrives at the Onassis Foundation. In the cover and directed by Robert Aik Aik, Oedipus has been going up on November 20th on the main stage of the roof, this time with a Greek troupe.

Election night. A capable leader, the favorite of the electoral race. A timer that counts to the triumph. Polls predict an overwhelming victory. Sweeping changes are expected. The story of Oedipus may be known to us, but this modern reading of a primordial myth we had not imagined. Robert Aik’s work is writing you and shocking you. What happens when everything you thought collapses? When is your own existence crashed in front of your eyes?

The Sophocles Drama of 428 BC For the relentless power of destiny it is re -read through the light of public image, responsibility, power and human limit. With undeniable intensity, sardonic humor and scenes stunting between political thriller and family tragedy, British playwright and director Robert Aik – known to the Greek public by The Doctor and the 1984 George Orwell Reception.

Nikos Kouris, Caryophyllia Karabetis © Yiorgos Kaplanidis

With Nikos Kouris and Karyophyllia Karabetis in the roles of Oedipus and Iokastis, Alexander Mylonas as Creonta and Rania Economidou as Meropi (a person introduced by Aik in the work) but also Kostas Nikouli, Socrates Patsikas Filidou to form a table of a family and political gathering that is definitely diverted. In a translation into Greek by Nikos Chatzopoulos and associate director for the Greek version, Prodromos Tsinikoris. Charged with political, social and existential tension, an electrified version of the myth of Oedipus that we should not miss.

Contributors

Cover & Directed by: Robert Icke
Sets: Hildegard Bechtler
Costumes: Wojciech Dziedzic
Lighting: Natasha Chivers
Lighting Partner: Charlotte Burton
Sound: Tom Gibbons
Sound Partner: Erwin Sterk
Video Design: Tal Yarden
Revival director: Lizzie Manwaring
Production of the original project: International Theater Amsterdam

Rates of Greek production

Translation: Nikos Chatzopoulos
Associate director for the Greek version: Prodromos Tsinikoris
Assistant Revival Director: Korina Vassiliadou
Associate of stage designer: Mikaela Liaka
Stage Officer: Athena Botonaki
Stage Assistant: Maria Stathopoulou
Associate Costume Designer: Maria Karapouliou
Production Execution: Zoe Mouschi & Rena Andreadaki

Interpret: Hara Yiotas, Giorgos Ziakas, Karyofyllia Karabeti, Nikos Kouris, Alexandros Mylonas, Costas Nikouli, Rania Economidou, Socrates Patsikas, Takis Sakellariou, Yiannis Tsoumarakis, Danai-Arsenia

Greek Production: Onassis Foundation Roof

Pre -sale for roofing friends begins on September 15 and for the general public on September 20th.

Read more about Robert Icke

Robert Aik is an award -winning English writer and theatrical director. He was the first Ibsen Artist in Residence at the International Theater Amsterdam, at the invitation of Ivo Van Hove and with the support of the Philip Loubser Foundation. His honors include two Best Director of the Evening Standard newspaper (Britain’s most adaptive theatrical awards), two best director of the United Kingdom Critic Director, with which he became the youngest winner of this prize. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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