He was a theater director and professor in drama schools
The great theater director Leonidas Trivizas passed away at the age of 93. The news of his death was announced by the actor and president of SEH, Spyros Bibilas, in a post on his personal Facebook account.
Leonidas Trivizas was a theater director and professor in drama schools. He directed works of classical but mainly modern, foreign drama and, on a smaller scale, modern Greek works. He participated in the establishment and operation of alternative, experimental theater forms that presented a dramaturgy based on artistic and socio-political criteria (Circular Theatre, Popular Experimental Stage). In addition, he engaged in the revival of ancient drama, approaching it through a refreshing and modern aesthetic.
He was born in Corfu in 1929. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens and the Drama School of the Art Theater, from where he graduated in 1956. His first directing attempts were made in 1958 with the short-lived Free Theater troupe and in 1960 with Kostis’ Nea Skeni Levadea.
He then founded his own theater company, the Cyclical Theater (1961-1963). This was followed by his collaborations with the National Theater (1965-1967) and in the independent theater with the troupe of Alekos Alexandrakis and the troupe of Dimitris Horn. During the period of the Dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-1974) he exiled himself to Paris, where, among other things, he attended the courses of Roland Barthes at the École pratique des hautes études.
Returning to Greece, he pioneered the establishment and operation of the People’s Experimental Theater (1975-1984) and the Drama School of the same name. The troupe was initially housed in the Athena Theater and then in the Poria Theater. He staged twenty-eight plays of a wide range of repertoire.
With the People’s Experimental Theatre, L. Trivizas systematically dealt with the revival of ancient drama. He presented Aristophanes’ comedy “Thesmophoriazouses” (1978), Euripides’ tragedies “Orestes” (1979) and “Phoenises” (1983), as well as Aeschylus’ tragedy “Seven on Thebes” (1980). In the same period, he also directed Euripides’ tragedy “Ekavi” (1981) on behalf of the State Theater of Northern Greece.
In these directorial efforts he introduced various experiments and followed directorial tactics of renewal in relation to the tradition that had been consolidated in Greece in the revival of ancient drama.
Gradually, the People’s Experimental Theater began to face serious financial problems and in 1984 under their weight it stopped its operation. All the previous period, the press of the time had continuous reports and complaints regarding the non-inclusion of the People’s Experimental Theater in the state grants.
For the next decade, L. Trivizas will refrain from any professional directing activity. He returned as a director in the summer of 1996, directing Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Lear” (K. Kazakou troupe). His last recorded directing work was the performance “Falstaff”, a free rendering of the Shakespearean comedy “The Merry Ladies of Windsor” (troupe K. Kazakou, 1998).
L. Trivizas, alongside his directing career in the theater, also directed plays on the radio. Indicative works are mentioned: Vucek by G. Buchner (1964), Chips for All Hours by A. Wesker (1964), Great Wall by Max Fries (1964), Donna Rosita by F. Lorca (1967), Block C by H. Venezis, etc.
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