Board of Directors

Chairman

Yorgos Loukos

Vice-chairman

Loukas Tsoukalis

Members

Dakis Joannou Sandra Marinopoulou Takis Arapoglou Niki Tzouda Dimitris Passas

With the support of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism

Hellenic Festival S.A.

hen we sat down to plan the 2011 Festival on paper, it quickly became clear that we had another difficult year ahead of us – the

third year of a profound crisis that has shown no signs of letting up; which extends beyond the economic to society, aesthetics and human relations; which has confronted contemporary Greece – and we are not alone – with a crisis of identity and orientation. What part can art and culture play when you’re walking the tightrope of circumstance? What can you look ahead to, how optimistic can you be?

We are convinced that art brings people closer together, that it can im-munize us against the barbarism by providing a tool for seeing things anew. And today, more than ever before, we uphold the philosophy the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has espoused since 2006 in theatre, music, dance and the visual arts – a rationale whose key concepts are diversity, a spirit of adventure, openness and acknowledging the public’s need for real art, its thirst to commune with the new and the unfamiliar.

We have insisted on the fundamental principles of a programme which allows Greek audiences to connect with landmark figures; with artists like the incurable theatre visionary, Ariane Mnouchkine, or the dancer Sylvie Guillem, whose genius gave her the courage to cross over from classical ballet into contemporary dance; with historic institutions like the Bolshoi and the Filarmonica della Scala, and with new ones like the Bridge Project, a collaboration of the Hellenic Festival with New York and London which received a rapturous reception the year before last and is returning to Epidaurus with two big names from Hollywood – Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey – who will be meeting off screen and on stage in Richard III.

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“We have to organize pessimism…”

The Festival will once again be staging works by groundbreaking artists whose subversive approach helps make their art go further. The Iannis Xenakis Tribute clearly falls into this category, with its homage to a multi-faceted composer and visionary who left his mark on the latter half of the 20th century, as does the most recent work from that reviver of the theatrical idiom, Romeo Castellucci. So do, too, the acerbic “American in Europe”, William Forsythe, the enfant terrible of video art, Doug Aitken, and Maguy Marin, whose latest offering, Salves, invokes Walter Benjamin, aptly adding to his insights: “Acting on our pessimism and our fears, we so escape the pervading anxiety crushing us and rendering us powerless, miserable and weary”.

Our commitment to young artists is even more pronounced this year; it has to be, because if we get to see the world afresh, it will be through their eyes. They include Khar lampos Goy s, the genre-busting new me-dia pioneers, drog_A_tek, and performers like Markellos Chrysikopoulos and Jérémie Rhorer, who have dedicated themselves to contemporary readings of the Baroque.

Finally, as we have done every year, we have tried to register the Festival on a broader chronological continuum through the engaging of memory. Hence our tributes marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Iannis Xenakis and the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, our homages to Odysseas Elytis and Nikos Gatsos a hundred years after their birth, and our tribute to Gustav Mahler on the centenary of his death.

Yorgos Loukos

Chairman & Artistic Director

150, 120, 100, 85, 60, 55, 45, 42, 35, 32, 27, 25, 22, 20, 15, 12 €

Conducted by

Lukas Karytinos

Directed by

Graham Vick

Sets – Costumes

George Souglides

Lighting design

Giuseppe Di Iorio

With

the Orchestra and Chorus of the Greek National Opera

Chorus master

Nikos Vassiliou

ROSARTE Children’s Choir

Chorus master

Rosie Mastrosavva (Pagliacci)

The Greek National Opera has opted to perform two operas at this year’s Athens Festival which epitomize Verismo, with all the love, hate and insane jealousy that comes with it. A popular operatic pairing, performed by big names from the Greek and international opera scene, the works offer sublime melodies, powerful plots, violent passions and intense emotions.

In Cavalleria Rusticana (1890), a tranquillity of an Easter morning is shattered by a betrayed lover whose actions will end in tragedy. In Pagliacci (1892), though Canio adheres to the theatrical tradition that the show must go on, his desperation and humiliation lead him to a macabre end.

OPERA 1 & 3-5 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

GREEK NATIONAL OPERACAVALLERIA RUSTICANAopera in one act by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

PAGLIACCIopera in two acts by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)

In Italian with Greek surtitles

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CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

SANTUZZA

Chariklia Mavropoulou

LOLA

Irini Karaianni (1, 4/6)

Georgia Iliopoulou (3, 5/6)

TURRIDU

Rudy Park (1, 4/6)

Angelo Simos (3, 5/6)

ALFIO

Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6)

Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

LUCIA

Marita Paparizou

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Stuart Neill

NEDDA

Elena Kelessidi

TONIO

Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6)

Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

ΒEPPE

Antonis Koroneos (1, 3, 5/6)

Nikos Stefanou (4/6)

SILVIO

Dionisios Sourbis

Free Entrance

Presented & Directed by

Giorgos Nanouris

With

Christos Theodorou at the piano

Last year, more than two thousand people thronged Thission’s pedestrian walkway to be entertained and moved by the actors and singers who performed for two evenings on the stage of the Caravan. Well, the much-loved artists are back again this year, joining forces to make us a gift of another two nights of entertainment – an antidote for our material and moral pain.

Acting, singing and dancing, they use the simplest means to infuse with new life a deeply European form of music-theatre which once enjoyed days of glory on the Athens stage – the variety show.

THEATRE IN A CARAVAN

1 & 2 JUNE / KOREAN MARKET

VAUDEVILLE ONE NIGHT, JUST FOR YOU (RELOADED)

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Translated by

Koralia Sotiriadou

Directed by

Vaggelis Theodoropoulos

Sets – Costumes

Antonis Danglidis

Music

Stavros Gasparatos

Lighting

Sakis Birbilis

With

Giannos Perlengas

The nexus of problems caused by the mass influx of immigrants into the city makes Athens today the ideal setting for Dirt. The protagonist, Sad, is a thirty year-old Arab living in Europe without papers.

In the words of the play’s director, who has been working in the sphere of the political theatre for several years now: “He is the Other, the segregated, the foreigner who’s responsible for everything dark and bad in our lives. He’s our neighbour in Berlin, in Vienna, in the suburbs of Paris, in down-town Athens…”.

THEATRE 9-11 & 15, 16 JUNE PEIRAIOS 260 (WAREHOUSE)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

DIRTby Robert Schneider

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Free Entrance

The Athens Festival welcomes back the experiments of two alternative groups: drog_A_tek, a fluid musical ensemble which redefines itself in every performance, and the Erasers, a group that unites apparently different situations. Working together, they will create, edit and broadcast auditory and visual works in real time. In their ever-evolving 72-hour live studio, they will film a movie, publish a fanzine, record a musical or social dialogue, paint the walls, push the audio or lighting systems past their limits or come up with new ones. Sacrificing control, they develop a live composition and decomposition of sounds and images using the most disparate and unusual media.

Co-production BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY

INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE

2-4 JUNE / BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY

DROG_A_TEK / ERASERS WE LOST CONTROL72 mistakes in real time

12:00 - 20:00 Live installation

20:00 - 24:00 Live performance

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Three distinguished contemporary music ensembles undertake the Athens Festival’s Ιannis Xenakis tribute to mark ten years since the death of a composer whose legacy now seems more vital and vibrant than ever before. The iconic Arditti Quartet and the London Sinfonietta present a broad spectrum of works ranging from virtuosic solos and pieces for various combinations of instruments to the electro-acoustic La légende d’Eer, which was written for the opening of the Pompidou Centre. Finally, Greece’s own up-and-coming Ergon Ensemble attempts to extend the limits of the concert condition by incorporating Xenakis’ own speech and image in a musical portrait of the avant-garde composer which is a million miles from the stereotypical “man who put mathematics into music”.

MUSIC 3, 6, 8 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

A TRIBUTE TO ΙANNIS XENAKIS

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3 JUNE

ARDITTI QUARTET

Stefanos Thomopoulos piano

Tetora for string quartet (1991)

ST/4 for string quartet (1962)

Akea for piano and string quartet (1986)

Ikhoor for string trio (1978)

Evryali for piano (1973)

Tetras for string quartet (1983)

6 JUNE

LONDON SINFONIETTA Conducted by

Ryan Wigglesworth

Epei for cor anglais, clarinet, trumpet, 2 trombones and double bass (1976)

Kottos for cello (1977)

Phlegra for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1975)

Diatope - La légende d’Eer for 4- or 8-track (1977)

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ERGON ENSEMBLE Conducted by

Nikos Tsouchlos

XENAKIS IN FIRST PERSON

Dhipli Zyia for violin and cello (1952)

Anaktoria for clarinet, bassoon, French horn, string quartet and double bass (1969)

Xenakis Electro-acoustic mix

Charisma for clarinet and cello (1971)

Palimpsest for 11 musicians (1979)

Rebonds (part II) for percussion (1988)

Keren for trombone (1986)

O-Mega for percussion soloist and chamber orchestra (1997)

Diamorphoses (1957) will be presented during the entrance of the audience and Persépolis (1971) during intermission.

30, 25, Concs. 20 €

Direction – Set design

Ariane Mnouchkine

Original music

Jean-Jacques Lemêtre

Set construction

Everest Canto de Montserrat

Sets - Decor

Serge Nicolaï

Lighting

Elsa Revol

Sound design

Yann Lemêtre

In today’s theatre, what could be more political than giving people back some of the enthusiasm and hope they once nurtured? Manning the barricades once more, Ariane Mnouchkine’s inspired, magical production honours those who, a century ago, espoused ideals that were destined to wreck.

A silent film crew on the eve of the Great War are boxed up in an on-stage cabinet des curiosités, using a hand-cranked camera to film an optimistic political film based on Jules Verne’s The Survivors of the Jonathan, an epic of singular power awash with music, humour and thrills.

THEATRE 10-12 & 15-19 JUNE / METROPOLITAN EXPO

THÉ TRE DU SOLEIL THE CASTAWAYS OF THE FOL ESPOIR(SUNRISES)

A play collectively devised by the Théâtre du Soleil, half written by Hélène Cixous

In French with Greek surtitles

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Conceived & Performed by

Elpida Orfanidou

Dramaturgy

Vasiliki Mouteveli

Lighting

Valentina Tamiolaki

Costumes

Hiroaki Kanai

Music supervision

Elpida Orfanidou

Elpida Orfanidou puts her experiences of movement and her own mental moulds for corporeality on stage in a singular solo.

As the title’s surreal imagery suggests, the work seeks to convey a sense of the unfamiliar to the audience through a combination of short sketches whose elements are familiar. More candid than ever, Orfanidou marshals the possibilities of movement and the human voice, as well as facial expression, to stray from the well-worn paths of conventional dance.

The rehearsals for this production were held at the Kinitiras studio during the choreographer’s residency there. The artist would like to thank the Aliki Diamandi Ballet School for their hospitality.

Media sponsors

DANCE 11 & 12 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

DOUBLE BILL OF GREEK CONTEMPORARY DANCE

ELPIDA ORFANIDOU PARROTS AT THE SEABED

START TIME

21:00

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Conceived & Choreographed by

trio 7d9

Music

Chrysanthos Christodoulou

Lighting design

HELLBLAU

Lighting realised by

Giannis Rozeas

Voice-over

Dimitris Passas

Props

Manuel Frattini

Costumes

Ioanna Tsami

With

Karl Paquemar Marion Ruchti Xenia Themeli Christos Strinopoulos

The trio 7d9 dance collective, formed in Berne by Xenia Themeli, Christos Strinopoulos and Marion Ruchti, is presenting its work in Greece for the first time. A creative workshop for ideas and quests which initially centred on pure movement, the trio experiments in Rush with elements from the theatre and the visual arts. As the work’s title reveals, the trio’s primary interest is in the primal impulse as human driving force. Ecstasy, enthusiasm, anger and playfulness permeate the whole show.

Media Sponsors

DANCE 11 & 12 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

DOUBLE BILL OF GREEK CONTEMPORARY DANCE

TRIO 7D9 / RUSHa work for 5 dancers

START TIME

22:00

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Conducted by

Alexandros Myrat

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Franz Liszt Fantasia in C major, D 760 (“Wanderer fantasy”)

(transcribed for piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, S 366)

Franz Liszt Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in A major, S 125

Cyprien Katsaris piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Symphony No. 3 in F major, opus 73

This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Ferencz Liszt. The greatest pianist the world has ever known, Liszt single-handedly established the concept of the soloist and the solo recital during the 19th century. Innovative and prolific as a composer, as a conductor he supported new directions in music and a number of young composers including Richard Wagner. A flamboyant character, a poet of life and music, a Franciscan abbot, Bohemian artist and genuine philanthropist, Liszt was one of the leading lights of Romanticism.

MUSIC 12 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

THESSALONIKI STATE ORCHESTRA A TRIBUTE TO FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

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25, 20, Concs. 15 €

Orchestrated & Conducted by

Kharálampos Goy s

Direction

Alexandros Efklidis

Sets – Costumes

Konstantinos Zamanis

PETROS

Dimitris Nalbantis

RIKA

Vasia Zacharopoulou

PLUPLU

Elena Chatziafxenti

Mr GRANTIDIS

Kostis Rasidakis

Mrs GRANTIDI

Eleni Liona

Mr RONSIS

Aris Prospathopoulos

Engaging in a new and fruitful dialogue with the hidden treasures of the Greek operetta, The Beggars’ Operas company has been responsible for a series of fresh approaches to the lyric theatre. A million miles from a facile and ultimately artificial nostalgia for ‘the good old days’, the lost operetta repertoire – some 1,000 works which were loved and performed in the genre’s heyday, only to disappear without trace after World War II – are proving as relevant as they are vibrant, and a trenchant tool for pointed criticism of the modern Greek experience.

Co-produced by

OPERETTA 13 & 14 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

THE BEGGARS’ OPERAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORMby Theophrastos Sakellaridis

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Free Entrance

PERFORMANCE 13 & 14 JUNE / KUNSTHALLE ATHENA

FAREWELL

Curated by

Themis Bazaka Marina Fokidis

With the actors

Giorgos Valais Konstantina Voulgari Stefania Goulioti Angela Brouskou Maria Panourgia Aggeliki Papoulia Giannis Stankoglou Giorgos Symeonidis Theodora Tzimou Ioanna Tsami

and the visual artists

Kostis Velonis Christina Dimitriadi Pantelis Makkas Alexandros Mistriotis Thodoris Prodromidis Pantelis Pantelopoulos Dimitris Papadatos Socratis Socratous Dimitris Tataris Lo-Fi

As an institution which embraces experimentation and the new, the Athens Festival encourages dialogue between the art-forms. In Farewell, ten actors collaborate with ten visual artists in a performance which negotiates the emotional and social meaning of farewell via a series of dichotomies: joy / bitterness, freedom / separation, salvation / fear, expectation / nostalgia, hope / disappointment, habit / change, the old / new world, life / death.

A looping exhibition-performance-experiment-spectacle which will take place over five hours in different spaces around the Kunsthalle Athena’s old building in Metaxourghio.

Co-hosted by

Media Sponsor

Kindly supported by

OPENING HOURS

19:00 - 24:00

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Collectively devised by

Thomas Moschopoulos Kornilios Selamsis Amalia Bennet Konstantinos Kypriotakis Elli Papageorgakopoulou Lefteris Pavlopoulos Elias Giannakakis Tasos Angelopoulos Anna Micheli Anna Kalaitzidou Anna Mascha Kostas Berikopoulos Dimitris Nasioulas Argyris Xafis Maria Skoula Thanos Tokakis Evangelia Therianou

A painting and the historic event that inspired it provided a group of celebrated artists with a starting point for a collective work on History and time, History and art, art and time...

In 1816, the French frigate Medusa ran aground and 150 people of lower social standing were abandoned on a raft – only fifteen would survive. The ensuing scandal was enormous, and had political extensions. The painting of the tragic raft which Théodore Géricault showed three years later would acquire its own scandalous mythology, as the artist had used two of the survivors as models.

THEATRE 13-17 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

MEDUSA DRAFTS AND IMPROVISATIONS ON RAFTS AND SHIPWRECKS

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Choreographed & Performed by

Nikos Dragonas Ioannis Mandafounis Katerina Skiada

Lighting design

Alekos Giannaros

Costumes

Despoina Makarouni

Sets

Kleio Boboti Roza Giannopoulou

Musicians

Anastasis Gouliaris Dimitris Tasainas Foteinos Tsakopoulos

The Lemurius dance collective present their recent Blockbuster, with Nikos Dragonas, Ioannis Mandafounis and Katerina Skiada alternating in the roles of dancer and choreographer. With banners declaring “Back to Basics” filled by a wind of freedom calling the dance spectacle into question, and with a chair, a laptop and a panel as their only stage machinery, they resolve to rid themselves of the inessential. All three are exceptional performers who, despite their different starting points, espouse the utopia of community, co-creation, and the exchange of experience and ideas. The result: a dance-free dance performance which combines freshness with sincerity and playfulness.

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DANCE 15 & 16 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / BLOCKBUSTER

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Free Entrance

Lamia Bedioui

(Greece/Tunisia)

Orchester Med Fusion

(Tunisia)

El Tanbura

(Egypt)

Dozens, if not hundreds, of hymns to freedom were written and sung, mouth to mouth and cell to cell (phone), during the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. And they will continue to be written for as long as the Arabs’ struggles for social justice and political freedom continue. For this was undoubtedly an artistic revolution, too, which, shaking all of society to its very foundations, brought hidden songs and ideas, forbidden words and hopes, repressed thoughts and feelings out into the open. From Tahrir Square in Cairo, El Tanbura’s ancient lyre circled the globe via YouTube, the young musicians of Med Fusion were among the first to write songs about the “Jasmine Revolution”, while the naturalized Greek singer from Tunisia, Lamia Bedioui, successfully unites the sounds of the Mediterranean peoples, from the Berber deserts to the Aegean Sea.

MUSIC 17 JUNE / TECHNOPOLIS

WORLD SOUNDS A MUSICAL AWAKENING

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DANCE 17-19 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / ARAZ

Choreography

Zeynep Tanbay

Music

Yann Tiersen Philip Glass Reich Remixed Baba Zula Mercan Dede Burhan Öçal

Costumes

Network

Lighting design

Zeynep Tanbay Arek Ni�anyan

With

Alper Marangoz Bengi Sevim Beril �enöz Can Gökdo�an Cennet Erdo�an Evrim Akyay Gül Batırbaygil Mert Öztekin Nil Batırbaygil Önder �evik Pınar Güremek Suzan Alev Zeynep Tanbay

Zeynep Tanbay is now very much the grande dame of contemporary dance in Turkey. Having done her time with prestigious companies in the United States, she returned home to cross-fertilize the domestic scene with her experiences. Since 2006, the Zeynep Tanbay Dans Projesi have been making an impression in Turkey and beyond, and proved themselves a dynamic presence in the world of contemporary dance. Araz, a choreography in 14 self-contained parts, is a representative sample of the kinesiological influences that shaped its creator. Its solos, duets and ensemble sections are preformed to eclectic musical selections ranging from the traditional percussion of Burhan Öçal to the minimalist melodies of Philip Glass.

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Direction – Text

Stavros S. Tsakiris

Sets

Alexandros Psychoulis

Costumes

Antonis Volanakis

Music

Nikos Kypourgos

Movement

Konstantinos Rigos

Lighting

Eleftheria Deko

Dramaturgy

Dimitra Petropoulou

With

Konstantinos Rigos Giannis Tsortekis Evdokia Roumelioti Tatiana Papamoschou

Adrift in his memories, the legendary Nijinsky leaps from past to present and back again as he sinks into madness and despair in a Swiss clinic. His doctors, Diaghilev, Romola, and a class of young dancers move around him as he philosophizes on love, death, dance, good and evil, in a constant search for God.

An ambitious performance from Stavros Tsakiris on the thin line between genius and madness, and on the essence of art, performed by a noteworthy cast including the dancer and choreographer, Konstantinos Rigos.

THEATRE 18 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

NIJINSKY I AM A PUPPET IN THE HANDS OF GOD…

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Written & Directed by

Elena Penga

Sets – Costumes

Antonis Danglidis

Lighting

Katerina Marangoudaki

Video

Manthos Santorineos

Music

Orestis Tanis

Assistant director

Zoe Manta

NARCISSUS

Angelos Papadimitriou

“A monologue for a male actor and twenty male volunteers” is how Elena Penga describes her latest work, a fresh take on the well-known myth of the young man who falls in love with his reflection, with fatal consequences. In Narcissus, the multiplication of the image of the self is presented both as a question of existential order and as a sign of the times. Bound to an era in which developments in the technology of image production, processing, and reproduction has disturbed our relationship with the Ego, the contemporary man – and, by extension, contemporary Man – is brought face to face with his dead ends.

THEATRE 20-22 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

NARCISSUS

20 June START TIME

21:00

21 June START TIME 21:00 & 23:00

22 June START TIME 23:00

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In Italian with Greek surtitles

Conceived & Directed by

Romeo Castellucci

Original music

Scott Gibbons

With

Gianni Plazzi Sergio Scarlatellaand

Dario Boldrini Silvia Costa Silvano Voltolina

The ground-breaking Romeo Castellucci returns with a bold new work: a decrepit father, a son and, in a Renaissance painting, the Son of God with a human expression on his face.

Playing, as ever, with the limits of the Theatre of Cruelty, Castellucci uses a modern-day parable to explore the countenance of Christ in its ‘long absence’: “Jesus’ face isn’t there. I can see only paintings and statues”. Operating far from the realm of the theological, the director seeks primary images and symbols as raw material for the theatre to appropriate.

Produced by Soc etas Raffaello Sanzio

in co-production with: Theater der Welt 2010, deSingel international arts campus / Antwerp, Théâtre National de Bretagne / Rennes, The National Theatre / Oslo, Barbican London and SPILL Festival of Performance, Chekhov International Theatre Festival / Moscow, Holland Festival / Amsterdam,

THEATRE 22-25 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO / ON THE CONCEPT OF THE FACE, REGARDING THE SON OF GOD

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Athens Festival, GREC 2011 Festival de Barcelona, Festival d’Avignon, International Theatre Festival DIALOG Wroclav / Poland, BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival), spielzeit’europa I Berliner Festspiele, Théâtre de la Ville–Paris, Romaeuropa Festival, Theatre festival SPIELART München (Spielmotor München e.V.), Le-Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg / Scène Européenne, TAP Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers- Scène Nationale, Peak Performances @ Montclair State-USA

A special thank to Centrale Fies for housing the Italian rehearsals.

The general activity of Soc etas Raffaello Sanzio is supported by the following Italian institutions: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; Regione Emilia Romagna; Comune di Cesena.

The performance is sponsored by Michalis Stathopoulos.

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DANCE 22 & 23 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN ΜΑΥ B

Choreography

Maguy Marin

Dancers

Ulises Alvarez Romain Bertet Teresa Cunha Léa Helmstädter / Françoise Leick Marie Papon / Jeanne Vallauri Matthieu Perpoint Grégory Robardet Ennio Sammarco Agustina Sario Vania Vaneau

Original music

Franz Schubert Gilles de Binche Gavin Bryars

Costumes

Louise Marin

Lighting

Compagnie Maguy Marin

Maguy Marin, a unique figure on the French contemporary dance scene due to her wide-ranging creativity and extraordinary resilience to the passage of time, is returning to the Athens Festival in 2011.

May B (1981), an emblematic work which made her name internationally, is inspired by the world of Samuel Beckett. Eschewing text and narrative, the work conjures up a choreographic fresco on the absurdity of the human condition, daringly putting on stage devastated figures whose gender is of little account beneath their off-white grease paint.

Co-produced by Compagnie Maguy Marin, Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil The CCN de Rilleux-La-Pape / Cie Maguy Marin is subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DRAC Rhône-Alpes), the Région Rhône-Alpes, Département du Rhône, and the municipality of Rilleux-La-Pape.

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Directed & Performed by

Roula Pateraki

Sets – Costumes

Lili Kentaka

Lighting

Alekos Giannaros

Movement

Betty Dramisioti

Assistant director

Tasia Sofianidou

This isn’t the first time Roula Pateraki has tackled an on-stage monologue and enlisted literature’s aid in pushing back the limits of the theatrical. Having embodied creations by Yannis Ritsos, Yannis Panos, Virginia Woolf and Dimitris Dimitriadis, in this monologue Pateraki crosses paths with a minor character from Dostoyevsky’s Demons (The Possessed): little Matriosa, whom the demonic Stavrogin confesses to raping then driving to suicide. Given life and a voice in Maria Efstathiadi’s Demon, Matriosa tells us her version of events.

Co-produced by

THEATRE 23-27 JUNE / APO MICHANIS THEATRO

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

DEMON SOSTENUTO ASSAI CANTABILE by Maria Efstathiadi

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Giorgios Kouroupos (b. 1942)

Monogram (to poetry by Odysseas Elytis)

Tassis Christoyannis baritone

Vassiliki Karayanni soprano

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 21 in C major, Κ467

Alexandra Papastefanou piano

With the

ERT Chorus

Chorus master

Dimitris Bouzanis

ORCHESTRA OF COLOURS

Conducted by

Miltos Logiades

The Athens Festival has chosen to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Odysseas Elytis, the Greek Nobel-prize-winning poet, with a performance of the stage cantata, Monogram, composed to his poetry by Giorgios Kouroupos. “It is the most beautiful hymn to love I have ever heard. I wanted to convey the work’s lyricism, but also its dramatic elements, especially the hopelessness we feel when confronted with the realization that there is no place for such an ideal love in this world of ours”.

The work is preceded by a Mozart piano concerto which Elytis, in The Little Mariner, refers to as one of his favourite pieces of music.

MUSIC 24 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

A TRIBUTE TO ODYSSEAS ELYTIS (1911-1996)

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Choreography

Persa Stamatopoulouin collaboration with the dancers

Costumes

Ioanna Tsami

Music

Coti K.

Lighting

Panagiotis Manousis

With

Markella Manoliadi Giorgos Kotsifakis

This duet, the end result of an encounter and a collaboration between three generations in contemporary Greek dance, focuses on the adventure of the gaze. Persa Stamatopoulou, both dancer and choreographer, exchanges material and experiences with two powerful performers. Their theme: the paradox of living in an era that deifies the image, but in which eye-to-eye communication has atrophied.

The limelight-bathed stage, fear of exposure and the intrusion of the Other’s gaze are some of the themes that activate the two bodies in space, and heighten the audience’s perceptions.

Media Sponsors

DANCE 25 & 26 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

PERSA STAMATOPOULOU CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY LOOK AT ME

25 June START TIME 23:00

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Conducted by

Semyon Bychkov

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G minor, opus 26

Joshua Bell violin

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No. 6 in A minor

In this concert, part of a series marking the centenary of Gustav Mahler’s death, the Filarmonica della Scala presents two works which epitomize Romanticism: Max Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concerto, with Joshua Bell playing the solo, and Mahler’s own Sixth Symphony, the so-called ‘tragic’ symphony which is imbued with the spirit of decay and death. The orchestra is conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

Main Partner of Filarmonica della Scala

MUSIC 26 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

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Conceived & Choreographed by

Maguy Marinin collaboration with

Denis Mariotteand the performers

Ulises Alvarez Teresa Cunha Matthieu Perpoint Ennio Sammarco Agustina Sario Jeanne Vallauri Vania Vaneau

Technical direction – Lighting

Alexandre Béneteaud

Sets

Michel Rousseau

Accessory design

Louise Gros in collaboration with

Pierre Treille

Costumes

Nelly Geyres

Sound design

Antoine Garry

Maguy Marin, one of those rare artists who do not rest on their laurels, now has over three decades of unabating creativity to her credit. Following on from May B (1981), Peiraios 260 is hosting another Greek premiere: her recent work Salves (2010). Confronting the need “to organize pessimism”, this time she invokes Walter Benjamin. Socially and ethically engaged, she once again strives to put forces of resistance on stage – “so we can escape the pervading anxiety that crushes us and renders us powerless”, she explains.

Co-produced by

Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2010, Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape/cie Maguy Marin

With the support of

DANCE 27-29 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN SALVES

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Conceived & Performed by

Denis Mariotte

Technical direction

Judicaël Montrobert

The first time we encountered Denis Mariotte, it was through the quirky scores he has been writing for Maguy Marin’s choreographies since 1990. This time, though, he’s here on his own account as the composer and performer of an original musical-kinetic performance in which rhythm and/or its absence play the leading role.

“Because, even when we think we’re losing it, it’s the rhythm that grabs us and carries us away, that we can’t get out of our heads. Lost in a state of dissolution, we so often struggle to harmonize our ‘here and now’ with an ever-changing world. We’re a point struggling to find a rhythm in common with the surface of which it forms an element.”

With thanks to CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape for housing the rehearsals

With the support of GRÜ - Théâtre du Grütli (Geneva - Switzerland)

PERFORMANCE 28 & 29 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

DENIS MARIOTTE PRISES / REPRISES

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Directed by

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Texts by

Euripides Aeschylus Hana Krall Jonathan Litell J.M. Coetzee et al.

Adaptation

Krzysztof Warlikowski Piotr Gruszczy�ski Jacek Poniedzia�ek

Sets – Costumes

Ma�gorzata Szcz��niak

Music

Pawe� Mykietyn Renate Jett Piotr Ma�lanka Pawe� Stankiewicz

Lighting

Felice Ross

Dramaturgy

Piotr Gruszczy�ski

Songs: Lyrics & Vocals

Renate Jett

Musicians

Pawe� Bomert Piotr Ma�lanka Pawe� Stankiewicz Fabian W�odarek

Sacrifice is the common thread running through the texts in (A)pollonia.

Figures from the worlds of myth and tragedy like Iphigenia and Alcestis, who were sacrificed, cross paths with Apollonia Machczynska, a Polish woman who gave her life trying to save twenty five Polish Jews from Nazi savagery, while Agamemnon, who offered his own daughter up for sacrifice, is identified with a sadistic SS officer. Combining spirituality with the power of projections, the celebrated Polish director revives his interest in tragedy and reconsiders the Holocaust, a wound which has still to heal.

Produced by

Nowy Teatr Warszawa

Co-produced

Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Théâtre de la Place de Liège, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, La Comédie de Genève – Centre Dramatique, Narodowy Stary Teatr w Krakowie

THEATRE 28-30 JUNE & 1 JULY ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE

KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI / (A)POLLONIA

In Polish with Greek surtitles

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Pawe� �ozi�ski Kacper Lisowski Rafa� Listopad

With

Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Ewa Da�kowska Ma�gorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik Danuta Stenka Wojciech Kalarus Marek Kalita Zygmunt Malanowicz Adam Nawojczyk Maja Ostaszewska Magdalena Pop�awska Jacek Poniedzia�ek Anna Radwan-Gancarczyk Monika Niemczyk Maciej Stuhr Tomasz Tyndyk

In association with the

Onassis Cultural Centre – Onassis Foundation

With the support of

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Athens

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Errikos Belies

Directed by

Giannis Kakleas

With

Vasilis Charalambopoulos Alexandros Mylonas Fay Xyla Giorgos Chrysostomou Vangelis Chatzinikolaou Kimon Fioretos Meni Konstantinidou Giorgos Papageorgiou

Hunger is the mother of invention, which is how Truffaldino-Arlecchino, a shrewd operator, ends up with two masters on his back. And while he needs them if he’s to eat, he’d better make sure they don’t find out about each other – even if they are staying in the same inn. Well, he got himself into this on-stage mess, so he’ll have to use all his wits and wiles to get himself out of it.

Goldoni’s playful comedy may owe much to the tropes of the Commedia dell’arte, but it is also closely observant of the society of its day. Giannis Kakleas is an innovative director at the helm of a fine cast with the exceptional Vasilis Charalambopoulos in the role of the most innocent yet canny servant in the history of the stage.

Golden Sponsor of the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Crete

THEATRE 29 & 30 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

MUNICIPAL & REGIONAL THEATRE OF CRETE THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERSby Carlo Goldoni

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DANCE 29 & 30 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THE PLANT COLLECTIVE DOUBLE TAKE

30th June two shows

START TIME

21:00 & 23:00

Choreographed & Performed by

Panagiota Kallimani Filipe Lourenço Emilio Urbina Rafael Pardillo

With

Alexandra Papagianni

Stage design

Heike Schuppelius

Music

Blaine L. Reininger

Lighting

Sakis Birbilis

The Plant, a dance collective whose members have worked together alongside outstanding European choreographers like Josef Nadj and Catherine Diverrès, join artistic quests once again to negotiate the pleasure of observing. In Double Take, they are inspired by the images of Edward Hopper and the master of cinematic suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. A polymorphic set turns us into observers watching stories unfold frame by frame; it also turns the mirror on us to reveal the way in which the gaze encroaches on the lives of others. Ultimately, might we be nothing more than a reflection of those we observe and perceive as reality around us?

With the support of

Media Sponsors

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Lighting

Ulf Naumann Tanja Rühl

Music

Dietrich Krüger Niels Lanz David Morrow

Costumes

Dorothee Merg

With

Esther Balfe Dana Caspersen Katja Cheraneva Roberta Mosca Nicole Peisl Inma Rubio (Guest) Jone San Martin Elizabeth Waterhouse Cyril Baldy Brigel Gjoka Amancio Gonzalez Josh Johnson David Kern Fabrice Mazliah Tilman O’Donnell Yasutake Shimaji Riley Watts Ander Zabala

The spectacle of struggle for exceptional performance is always haunted by the thrilling spectre of failure. Reflecting the resolve voiced by Beckett to “Try again. Fail again. Fail better,” * the deliberate staging of mishap in «Yes we can’t» ironically effaces the patina of excellence in performance, laying bare its inhering unsustainability and constant imperfection.

* Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho.

The Forsythe Company is supported by the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony as well as the city of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse. The Forsythe Company is Company-in-Residence of both HELLERAU-European Center of the Arts in Dresden and the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main.

With special thanks to Ms Susanne Klatten for supporting The Forsythe Company

With the support of

DANCE 3-5 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

THE FORSYTHE COMPANY / YES WE CAN’TA work by William Forsythe and the dancers of The Forsythe Company

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Nikos Hatzopoulos Sofia Seirli

Direction

Nikos Hatzopoulos

Sets – Costumes

Mayou Trikerioti

Video

Christos Dimas

Music supervision

Nikos Mastorakis

Lighting

Lefteris Pavlopoulos

With

Sofia Seirli

And we here, now, may have to recreate

a child’s heart, if we are to read.

Melpo Axioti

An intellectual and literary pioneer, a committed Leftist and daring modernist, Melpo Axioti spent a large part of her life abroad as a political refugee. The assemblage of texts entitled Melpo Axioti: The transformation of the chrysalis is largely based on two of her iconic prose works – Tough Nights and Kadmo – and forms a polyphonic monologue in which fiction melds with autobiography to create an on-stage persona fighting to keep the memory of language and Greece alive in the face of oblivion and exile.

The assemblage of the texts were based on the books: Διαδρομές της Μέλπως Αξιώτη [Itineraries of Melpo Axioti], by Anna Matthaiou and Popi Polemi, Themelio Editions / Δύσκολες Νύχτες [Tough Nights], Κάδμω [Kadmo], Το Σπίτι μου [My home], Ποιήματα [Poems], by Melpo Axioti, Kedros Editions / Γράμματα στη Μέλπω [Letters to Melpo], by Panagiotis Kousathanas, Mykoniatiki Editions.

Produced by Athens Festival in collaboration with the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala

THEATRE 3-5 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

MELPO AXIOTI THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHRYSALIS

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Original text

Thomas Bernhard

Translated by

Vasilis Tomanas

Direction – Dramaturgy

Kostas Koutsolelos Elena Polygeni

Lighting

Vasilis Klotsotiras

Sets – Costumes

Maria Karathanou

Physical Training

Anna Tzakou

With

Kostas Koutsolelos Marios Panagiotou Matina Pergioudaki Elena Polygeni Sotiris Tsakomidis

Thomas Bernhard’s Autobiography is a snapshot of the Ego encountering the world: an encounter that never comes to pass. He equates society with a vast institution, inhuman and dark, housing millions of people with special needs. The MAG Company production eschews the on-stage representation of the events described by the Austrian man of letters. Instead, revolving around its actors’ bodies, it projects a distorted inner landscape, focusing less on his yelling in desperation as on the yell itself.

The production is based on Autobiography by Thomas Bernhard, trans. Vasilis Tomanas (Exandas: Athens 1995).

With the support of

THEATRE 3-5 JULY / ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

MAG THEATRE COMPANY URBAN SPACE #1

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (THOMAS BERNHARD)

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Conducted by

Jérémie Rhorer

IDOMENEO

Richard Croft tenor

IDAMANTE

Kate Lindsay mezzo-soprano

ILIA

Sophie Karthaüser soprano

ELETTRA

Alexandra Coku soprano

ARBACE

Xavier Mas tenor

HIGH PRIEST

Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro tenor

VOICE OF NEPTUNE

Nahuel di Pierro bass

With

Les Éléments

chamber choir

Leopold Mozart attended the premiere of Idomeneo (1781), which his son Wolfgang presented at the Cuvilliés theatre in Munich two days after his 25th birthday. The opera’s plot revolves around another complex father-son relationship, and is one of the last important additions to the opera seria repertoire. The young French conductor, Jérémie Rhorer, and his ensemble bring a musicologically informed theatricalism to the work, revealing the diverse influences – the French baroque, the exuberance of the dominant Italian style, and Gluck’s revolutionary manifesto – which Mozart creatively assimilated into a powerfully emotive tale of tragic confrontations.

Produced by Théâtre des Champs Elysées

OPERA 4 JULY / MEGARON (CHRISTOS LAMBRAKIS HALL)

LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIE IDOMENEOopera in three acts by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Opera concertante In Italian with Greek surtitles

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Direction – Texts – Dramaturgy – Music coaching – Original Music – Movement – Scenography

Aris Retsos

Movement coaching

Ermis Malkotsis

Lighting

Marios Chatziathanasiou

Masks

Nektarios Dionysatos

Live music by

Stelios Giannoulakis

AGAMEMNON / AEGISTHUS

Konstantinos Avarikiotis

CLYTEMNESTRA

Kora Karvouni

ORESTES

Ermis Malkotsis

CASSANDRA

Natassa Marmataki

ELECTRA

Alexia Kaltsiki

HERALD

Antonis Myriangos

And a MIXED CHORUS

Aris Retsos, an outstanding figure in the Greek theatre, an actor and director who has dedicated twenty five years of his life to researching ancient drama, essays a journey of memory into the tragic myth of the Atreides, from the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the fall of Troy to Orestes’ flight from the Furies and his entreaties to Apollo and Athena. Playing a ritualistic role, the Chorus greets, follows, leads and accompanies the tragic heroes in their encounters with Fate.

THEATRE 5 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

ARIS RETSOS THE THRONE OF ATREUS

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Conducted by

Markellos Chrysikopoulos

Directed by

Apostolia Papadamaki

Sets – Costumes

Katerina-Christina Manolakou

Lighting

Filippos Koutsaftis

Monteverdi’s last and most important work is as human as it is ground-breaking. Thanks to an innovative libretto which takes liberties with its material, and a score which combines the moving with the sensual and the amusing with the dramatic, the opera continues to delight audiences to this day.

Can virtue be punished and greed rewarded? Of course, the audience of 1642 knew that Poppea’s allure would not last, that Nero would take his own life just a few years later, and that most of the opera’s heroes would meet an untimely end.

Monteverdi is often justly compared with his contemporary, Shakespeare, for his poetics, his ability to lay the soul bare, and the seminal role he played in the development of Western music.

OPERA 6 JULY / ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE

LATINITAS NOSTRA THE CORONATION OF POPPEAan opera in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

In Italian with Greek surtitles

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Elena Krasaki

VIRTU

Electra Platiopoulou

AMORE

Jason Marmaras

OTTONE

Karolina Blixt

POPPEA

Theodora Baka

NERONE

Florin Cezar Ouatu

OTTAVIA

Emanuela Galli

NUTRICE/FAMIGLIARE

Ioanna Forti

SENECA

Tassos Apostolou

DRUSILLA

Myrsini Margariti

LIBERTO

Konstantinos Klironomos

FAMIGLIARE/LUCANO

Yiannis Filias

FAMIGLIARE/LITTORE

Kostas Mavrogenis

PALLADE

Zinovia Zafeiriadou (video)

MERCURIO

Haris Andrianos (video)

VENERE

Nikos Spanos (video)

Featuring

ARNALTA

Romina Basso (special guest)

25, 20, Concs. 15 €

Direction – Sets

Nikolaï Kolyada

Costumes

Lioubov Rodigina Natalia Gorbounova Svetlana Yakina

Lighting – Sound

Denis Novosselov

With

Nikolaï Kolyada Natalia Garanina Irina Plesniaeva Svetlana Kolessova Lioubov Kocheleva Vera Tzvitkis Anna Danilina Konstantin Itounin Serguej Rovine Serguej Fiodorov Serguej Bogorodsky Alexej Jdanov Evguenij Tchistiakov Serguej Kolessov Karen Kotchiarian Anton Makouchine Oleg Yagodine Alexandre Koutchik Maxim Tarrassov Youlia Bespalova Anton Boutakov Alexandre Vakhov Alexandre Sissoev Alexandre Ouglov

This Hamlet from Yekaterinburg in Central Russia is like a pagan celebration. The play is directed by the actor, playwright and director Nikolaï Kolyada, a leading figure on the contemporary Russian theatre scene whom the Athens Festival is proud to introduce to Greek audiences.

Deconstructing the Shakespearean text, Kolyada rewrites the dark prince’s big questions on stage using minimal apparatus and powerful images. A challenging production from a theatre company that has even had to face up to the Russian Mafia in defence of its art, this Hamlet has enjoyed a rapturous reception at festivals around the world.

THEATRE 7-9 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

KOLYADA TEATR HAMLETby William Shakespeare

In Russian with Greek surtitles

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Conceived by

MKULTRA

Directed by

Gigi Argyropoulou Paeder Kirk

Dramaturgy – Supervision

Gigi Argyropoulou

With

Vasiliki Dimou Rania Kelaiditi Mary Lousi Evangeli Fili Phaedra Chatzikonstanti et al.

The city plan is always incomplete. Our daily routes redesign our surroundings as our personal geographies are recorded in the city’s built environment, creating an ‘immaterial architecture’. In the contemporary urban landscape, in which social spaces are being eradicated, the praxis of everyday life contains strategies of resistance. Athens changes every summer; Little scenes are played out on balconies and rooftops, bringing a new topography into view, in which the private becomes public and the public private.

The MKULTRA Company is staging an unexpected excursion, at night: it’s creating a temporary neighbourhood in the heart of Athens, an intermediate zone, a heterotopia, a home.

THEATRE 7-9 JULY / 9TH & 34TH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MKULTRA THEATRE CO.URBAN SPACE #2

A DAY TRIP a performance about the city

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Text

Theodoros Grigoriadis

Stage direction & design

Stelios Krasanakis

Costumes

Kostas Velinopoulos

Lighting

Eleftheria Deko

Movement

Amalia Bennet

Sound design

Spyros Aravositas

Video

Christos Dimas

With

Christos Stergioglou

Partali, the protagonist in the monologue based on Theodoros Grigoriadis’ novel of the same name, is a man who has learnt to wear women’s clothes to survive, turning a traumatic life into a spectacular on-stage performance. In his triple capacity as a director, psychiatrist and drama therapist, Stelios Krasanakis has encountered a range of characters in the past who have opened a window on the individual and collective psyche. In Partali, disguise, transvestitism and a particular social milieu combine to comment on the formation of sexual identity and the hybridization of Modern Greek identity in a production in which personal and national history are interwoven.

Featuring Christos Stergioglou, one of the most influential actors in his generation, in the challenging title role.

A production by Athens Festival in collaboration with Naxos Festival and Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala.

THEATRE 8-10 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

PARTALIbased on the novel by Theodoros Grigoriadis

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Text – Adaptation

Manolis Tsipos – Vassilis Noulas

Sets – Costumes

Nova Melancholia

Lighting design

Thodoris Mihopoulos

Live sound

Tasos Stamou

With

Emi Kitsali Vicky Kyriakoulakou Vassilis Noulas Ioanna Toumpakari Manolis Tsipos

“There is nothing about which one may not be in doubt.” The Nova Melancholia Company attempts a rhythmic/musical approach to Descartes’ “First Meditation”, part of his philosophical treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), the first work of the modern era to posit calling everything into doubt by defining ‘I’ as the ultimate arbiter of reality. In the first part of the performance, Vicky Kyriakoulakou reads the French Rationalist’s text, which was considered heretical in its time, with Tasos Stamou making live auditory interventions. The second part gives us a “music-theatre show with numbers from the Cabaret Descartes”.

The production is based on Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, trans. Evangelos Vantarakis, Ekkremes: Athens 2003.

THEATRE 10-12 JULY / INSTITUT FRAN AIS D’ATH NES

NOVA MELANCHOLIAURBAN SPACE #3

MEDITATION I: CONCERNING THOSE THINGS THAT CAN BE CALLED INTO DOUBT

With the support of

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Translation to French

Robert Davreu

Directed by

Wajdi Mouawad

Artistic supervision

François Ismert

Sets

Emmanuel Clolus

Costumes

Isabelle Larivière

Lighting

Eric Champoux

Original music

Bertrand Cantat Bernard Falaise Pascal Humbert Alexander MacSween

With

Pierre Ascaride Bertrand Cantat Olivier Constant Sylvie Drapeau Bernard Falaise Charlotte Farcet Raoul Fernandez Pascal Humbert Patrick Le Mauff Sara Llorca Alexander MacSween Marie-Eve Perron Emmanuel Schwartz

Wajdi Mouawad, a singular artist with multicultural roots, will be making his Greek premiere at this year’s Athens Festival.

The director, author and actor spent his childhood in Lebanon, his teenage years in France and the first years of his adult life in Quebec before settling in France for good. Influenced by the dialogue between the contemporary world and the literary legacy of ancient Greece, he has now turned his attentions to the on-stage interpretation of ancient drama. His Women cycle, which is based on Sophocles’ tragedies Antigone, Electra and Τhe Trachiniae, is his and his French-Canadian company’s first venture into ancient drama.

With the support of

THEATRE 9 & 10 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

WAJDI MOUAWAD WOMENa work based on Sophocles’ tragedies Antigone, Electra and The Trachiniae

In French with Greek surtitles

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ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

WAJDI MOUAWAD WOMENa work based on Sophocles’ tragedies Antigone, Electra and The Trachiniae

Translation to French

Robert Davreu

Adaptation – Stage direction

Wajdi Mouawad

Artistic direction

François Ismert

Sets

Emmanuel Clolus

Costumes

Isabelle Larivière

Lighting

Eric Champoux

Original music

Bertrand Cantat Bernard Falaise Pascal Humbert Alexander MacSween

With

Pierre Ascaride Bertrand Cantat Olivier Constant Sylvie Drapeau Bernard Falaise Charlotte Farcet Raoul Fernandez Pascal Humbert Patrick Le Mauff Sara Llorca Alexander MacSween Marie-Eve Perron Emmanuel Schwartz

Wajdi Mouawad, a singular artist with multicultural roots, will be making his Greek premiere at this year’s Athens Festival.

The director, author and actor spent his childhood in Lebanon, his teenage years in France and the first years of his adult life in Quebec before settling in France for good. Influenced by the dialogue between the contemporary world and the literary legacy of ancient Greece, he has now turned his attentions to the on-stage interpretation of ancient drama. His Women cycle, which is based on Sophocles’ tragedies Antigone, Electra and Τhe Trachiniae, is his and his French-Canadian company’s first venture into ancient drama.

In French with Greek surtitles

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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted his orchestras without a baton, with his bare hands.

Giorgos Skevas’ documentary – whose premiere screening this is – covers the years Mitropoulos spent in the United States (1938-1960) at the helm of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. A man (Lefteris Vogiatzis) studies the archive containing Mitropoulos’ letters and audio-visual material featuring the maestro, in an effort to shed light on aspects of the life and personality of the great Greek conductor.

Script & Direction

Giorgos Skevas

Music

Simis Tsilalis

Cinematography

Katerina Marangoudaki

Scenography

Eva Manidaki

Editing

Panos Voutsaras

Sound engineering

Spyros Aravositas

Production

Town Film (Roula Nikolaou)

With

Lefteris Vogiatzis

DOCUMENTARY 11 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

NAKED HANDSa documentary film about the great Greek maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos

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Directed by

Argyro Chioti

Concept - Dramaturgy - Music

Vasistas Theatre Co.

Lighting

Tasos Palaioroutas

Stage design

Eva Manidaki

Costumes

Pavlos Thanopoulos

Dramaturgical associate

Lambros Chrysogonidis

Movement

Sofia Mavragani

With

Ariane Labed Efthymis Theou Naima Carbajal Petros Stathakopoulos Argyro Chioti

Spectacle, from the multi-ethnic Vasistas company, explores the mechanisms of everyday education. The company stages a variable mobile installation with people in the spaces of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, and in parallel with the retrospective show dedicated to Apostolos Georgiou, an artist whose work records Man’s existential angst in mundane, everyday moments. An invisible, all-powerful surveillance network in which everything is transformed into spectacle, and everyone is moving automaton-like in search of interpersonal communication. Is there an emergency exit after all?

In collaboration with NMCA

THEATRE 11-13 JULY / NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

VASISTAS THEATRE CO. SPECTACLE

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Directed by

Angela Brouskou

Original music

Minimaximum improVision & natryx

Sets

Guy Stefanou

With

Filareti Komninou

After Electra (2006) and Agamemnon (2008), Angela Brouskou returns to the Athens Festival to direct the ‘psychic topography’ of a figure absolutely central to the matriarchal ancient world. In Clytemnestra – Stage E, a performance that defies labels, she engages with the myth of the wayward and passionate wife, mother and lover, but also with Woman’s relationship with war, power and loss. The Minimaximum improVision & natryx group back Filareti Komninou in the title role, using audio-visual material as a parallel narrative.

THEATRE 13-15 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

CLYTEMNESTRA – STAGE Ε

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Conducted by

Vasily Sinaisky

Direction

Dmitry Chernyakov

MADAME LARINA

Makval Kasrashvili

TATIANA

Ekaterina Scherbachenko

OLGA

Margarita Mamsirova

FILIPPIEVNA

Irina Udalova

EUGENE ONEGIN

Audun Iversen

VLADIMIR LENSKY

Alexey Dolgov

PRINCE GREMIN

Mikhail Kazakov

ZARETSKY

Valery Gilmanov

The opera Tchaikovsky wrote using Pushkin’s verse novel as a libretto is more a portrait of the alluring Tatiana than of its eponymous hero. The heartbeat of the young heroine who embodied the virtues of fidelity and devotion and inspired the admiration of generations of authors, including Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, provided Tchaikovsky with the rhythm for one of the 19th century’s finest lyric works. Two years after its first performance by students at the Moscow Conservatory, Eugene Onegin was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1881. The late Romantic opera has been in its repertoire ever since.

OPERA 12 & 14 JULY / MEGARON (ALEXANDRA TRIANTI HALL)

THE BOLSHOI OPERA EUGENE ONEGIN lyric scenes in three acts by P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

In Russian with Greek surtitles

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12 & 14 JULY

THE BOLSHOI OPERAEUGENE ONEGIN Lyric scenes in three acts by Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Conducted by Vasily SinaiskyDirection Dmitry Chernyakov

MADAME LARINA Makval Kasrashvili

TATIANA Ekaterina Shcherbachenko

OLGA Margarita Mamsirova

FILIPPIEVNA Irina Udalova

EUGENE ONEGIN Audun Iversen

VLADIMIR LENSKY Alexey Dolgov

PRINCE GREMIN Mikhail Kazakov

ZARETSKY Valery Gilmanov

The opera Tchaikovsky wrote using Pushkin’s verse novel as a libretto is more a portrait of the alluring Tatiana than of its eponymous hero. The heartbeat of the young heroine who embodied the virtues of fidelity and devotion and inspired the admiration of generations of authors, including Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, provided Tchaikovsky with the rhythm for one of the 19th century’s finest lyric works. Two years after its first performance by students at the Moscow Conservatory, Eugene Onegin was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1881. The late Romantic opera has been in its repertoire ever since.

In Russian with Greek surtitles

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Vassily Sinaisky

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in D minor, opus 30

Denis Matsuev piano

Anton�n Dvo��k (1841-1904)

Symphony No. 8 in G major, opus 88, Β 163

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is a musical as well as a technical challenge for the performer. In this case, the names involved offer the requisite guarantee of quality: the internationally celebrated Russian pianist, Denis Matsuev, playing with his country’s oldest orchestral ensemble, the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, under its principal conductor, Vassily Sinaisky. The programme also features Anton n Dvo k’s Eighth Symphony, a cheerful work inspired by the popular music of Bohemia.

MUSIC 13 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

THE BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA

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THEATRE 14-16 JULY / INSTITUT FRAN AIS D’ATH NES

HAPPY END THEATRE CO.URBAN SPACE #4

THE SUICIDE ROOFTOP

Directed by

Georgia Mavragani

Music

Nikos Veliotis

Performed by

Yvonne Maltezou

I, the being, the organic, the willfully mobile,

the vertebrate, the mammal,

I, the two-handed, the person,

the female, Koralia,

I shall not be silent now, not now,

I have no respite, no longer.

The voice of the poet Koralia Theotoka, the wife of Yorgos Theotokas, before the pain of lost love drove her past the brink of the roof of her home, provides the inspiration for this new site-specific production by Georgia Mavragani. Against the backdrop of a city rooftop – a space which formally divides the public from the private – a woman addresses the many with the discourse of the one; of anyone brought face to face with life and what that means.

With special thanks to Julia Andreiadou who provided us with the rights to use Koralia Theotoka’s texts.

With the support of

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Directed by

Dimitris Xanthopoulos

Dramaturgy

Pequod – Vaggelis Hatzigiannidis

Sets – Costumes

Mayou Trikerioti

Movement

Zoe Hatziantoniou

Lighting

Tasos Paleoroutas

Music supervision

Pequod

With

Yiorgos Angelopoulos

Dimitris Georgalas

Giannis Klinis

Michalis Mathioudakis

Aggeliki Marinou

Nicole Drizi

Aggeliki Papathemeli

Kostas Papakonstantinou

Fidel Talamboukas

No costumes, no sets, no make-up. The Pequod theatre company made a splash with its first production, a Seagull that focused on the fundamental condition of theatre: the communication between the audience and the actors. Now they are back with a new offering. Beginning with a blank sheet of paper, Working Hypothesis draws on newspaper articles, workers’ real-life experiences and universal thoughts and quests to explore a burning issue of our times: Given the current state of labour fluidity and uncertainty, can “I work, therefore I am” still hold? Or perhaps it never did…

THEATRE 14-17 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

PEQUOD THEATRE COMPANY WORKING HYPOTHESIS

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Conducted by

Vassilis Christopoulos

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”

Daphne Evangelatos mezzo-soprano

Sophia Kyanidou soprano

With

the State Choir LATVIJA and the ERT Choir

The Athens State Orchestra is bringing Gustav Mahler’s monumental Second Symphony to the Athens Festival in one of a series of concerts marking the centenary of the composer’s death. Written for a large orchestra, two soloists and a mixed choir, the “Resurrection” Symphony, as it is known after the ode of that name which is included in its stirring finale, provides a moving musical response to the existential angst of the mortal man in search of the divine. On the podium, the Athens State Orchestra’s new artistic director and principal conductor, Vassilis Christopoulos.

Co-produced by Athens Festival - Athens State Orchestra

MUSIC 15 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA / A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

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15 JULY

ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRAA TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

Conducted by Vassilis Christopoulos

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection”

Daphne Evangelatos mezzo-sopranoSophia Kyanidou soprano

With the State Choir Latvija and the ERT Choir

The Athens State Orchestra is bringing Gustav Mahler’s monumental Second Symphony to the Athens Festival in one of a series of concerts marking the centenary of the composer’s death. Written for a large orchestra, two soloists and a mixed choir, the “Resurrection” Symphony, as it is known after the ode of that name which is included in its stirring finale, provides a moving musical response to the existential angst of the mortal man in search of the divine. On the podium, the Athens State Orchestra’s new artistic director and principal conductor, Vassilis Christopoulos.

Co-produced by Athens Festival - ASO

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Stage direction – Text

Thanasis Georgiou Fotis Nikolaou

Choreography

Fotis Nikolaou

Adaptation – Orchestration – Vocal coaching

Nikos Evangelou

Sets – Costumes

Konstantina Andreou

Lighting

Giorgos Lazoglou

With the actors

Thanasis Drakopoulos Myrto Kougiali Katerina Loura Panos Makris Lea Maleni Christos Nikolaou Niovi Haralambous

and the dancers

Antonis Antoniou Rialena Nikodimou Alexia Perdikaki Foteini Perdikaki Fotis Nikolaou

Featuring

Nikos Evangelou piano

Thirteen people meet in a room of blessings, around a table positioned between life and death. They are trying to gain a little more time for the desires they have still to fulfil. Working with a group of young performers from the Experimental Stage of the Cyprus Theatre Organization, a choreographer, Fotis Nikolaou, and an actor, Thanasis Georgiou, co-direct a work of dance-theatre. True to his existential quests, the choreographer propels the cast into an encounter between speech and movement – an on-stage testimony from the heart, which seeks to move the audience with its directness.

DANCETHEATRE 16-18 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Η)

THOC EXPERIMENTAL STAGE / A LITTLE MORE

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20, Concs. 10 €

Directed by

Anestis Azas in collaboration with

Prodromos Tsinikoris

Sets – Art direction

Eleni Stroulia

Music

Panagiotis Manouilidis

The Projector Company engages with the burning issues of Greece’s political present by exploring the history of the Greek railways and, through them, of the country as a whole. Choosing a place which is still close to the reality of city streets and apartments – an Athenian rooftop from where the gaze can wander unimpeded over the railway lines that crisscross the city – the company stages a site-specific performance based on the codes of the ‘theatrical documentary’, a mix of historical texts, songs and personal testimony, and the participation of people who have themselves worked on the railways.

With the support of

HELLENIC RAILWAYS ORGANIZATION S.A.

THEATRE 18-20 JULY / NATIONAL RAILWAY STATION

PROJECTOR THEATRE CO.URBAN SPACE #5

A JOURNEY BY TRAIN

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Directed & Performed by

Thanassis Sarantos

Sets – Costumes

Eva Manidaki

Music – Sound design

Lambros Pigounis

Film projections

Thanassis Sarantos Gabriel Tzafkas

In this, the centenary of Alexandros Papadiamantis’ death, Thanassis Sarantos tackles A Dream on the wave, one of the writer’s most important works and the first short story in modern Greek literature to describe a nude. The story of the young shepherd’s encounter with Moschoula speaks of the carefree spirit of youth, of bucolic simplicity and happiness close to nature, but it also sheds light on a traumatic, unconsummated passion in a production which combines dramatized narrative with live music and the moving image to convey the unique atmosphere of Papadiamantis’ work.

With the support of Papadiamantis House Museum of Skiathos and Skiathos Municipality.

THEATRE 18-20 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES

A DREAM ON THE WAVEby Alexandros Papadiamantis

START TIME

21:00 & 23:00

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Choreography

Mats Ek

Music

Ludwig van BeethovenPiano sonata Op. 111, Arietta(Recording played by Ivo Pogorelich)

Sets – Costumes

Katrin Brännström

Lighting

Erik Berglund

Dancer

Sylvie Guillem

Co-produced by Dansens Hus Stockholm

NEW WILLIAM FORSYTHE WORK

Choreography

William Forsythe

Costume design – Lighting concept

William Forsythe

Lighting design realised by

Rachel Shipp

Dancers

Sylvie Guillem Nicolas Le Riche

Sylvie Guillem’s dance recital is undoubtedly the cultural event of the summer; two brand-new works choreographed especially for her by Mats Ek and William Forsythe, and Ji Kyli n’s 27’52’’ – featuring two dancers handpicked by him. Four dance artists who need no introduction, since they have all left an indelible mark on the dance scene of our times. All four began their careers in the classical ballet, which all four also managed to put in a contemporary context. Sylvie broke the boundaries of classical dance to blaze new trails in the contemporary idiom. This time, she takes on the modernist challenges of a perceptive post-classicist, a neo-classicist with a love for the cinema, and a choreographer who uses movement to explore the soul.

DANCE 19 & 20 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

SADLER’S WELLS LONDON

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Ji�� Kylián

Music

Dirk Haubrich (new composition, based upon 2 themes by Gustav Mahler)

Sets

Ji�� Kylián

Costumes

Joke Visser

Lighting

Kees Tjebbes

Dancers

Aurélie Cayla Kenta Kojiri

A Sadler’s Wells London /

Sylvie Guillem Production

Co-produced by

Holland Dance Festival,

Les Nuits de Fourvière/Département du Rhône,

Athens Festival,

Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

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Curated by

Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern)

Participating artists

Etel Adnan Lynda Benglis Leonard Cohen John Craxton Barbara Hepworth Martin Kippenberger Jannis Kounellis Markus Lüpertz Brice Marden Helmut Middendorf Ben Nicholson Manfred Pernice Lucas Samaras Daniel Spoerri Juergen Teller Cy Twombly Iannis Xenakis

The Last Grand Tour exhibition, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, brings together for the first time the work of seventeen internationally celebrated artists who lived, were inspired and worked in Greece during the 20th century. Paintings, sculptures and installations from the last six decades bear the signature of artists who were engaged on entirely different quests. Among them, John Craxton, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth from the UK, and members of the Greek diaspora, including Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras and Iannis Xenakis.

EXHIBITION 15 APRIL – 10 OCTOBER / MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART

THE LAST GRAND TOUR

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THE LAST GRAND TOUR

Curated by Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern)Participating artistsEtel Adnan Lynda Benglis Leonard Cohen John Craxton Barbara Hepworth Martin Kippenberger Jannis Kounellis Markus Lüpertz Brice Marden Helmut Middendorf Ben Nicholson Manfred Pernice Lucas Samaras Daniel Spoerri Juergen Teller Cy Twombly Iannis Xenakis

The Last Grand Tour exhibition, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, brings together for the first time the work of eighteen internationally celebrated artists who lived, were inspired and worked in Greece during the 20th century. Paintings, sculptures and installations from the last six decades bear the signature of artists who were engaged on entirely different quests. Among them, John Craxton, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth from the UK, and members of the Greek diaspora, including Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras and Iannis Xenakis.

LYNDA BENGLIS SAN MARCOS, 1995 STAINLESS STEEL AND COPPER 48X43X20 CM

PRIVATE COLLECTION, ATHENS COURTESY OF KALFAYAN GALLERIES, ATHENS / THESSALONIKI

PHOTO: YIANNIS AND ODYSSEAS VAHARIDES, COURTESY OF KALFAYAN GALLERIES, ATHENS / THESSALONIKI

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EXHIBITION 15 MAY – 31 JULY / BENAKI MUSEUM (PEIRAIOS STREET ANNEXE)

ARRRGH! MONSTERS IN FASHION

Curated by

Vasilis Zidianakis

With creations by

Walter Van Beirendonck Alexis Themistocleous Gareth Pugh Dr NOKI’s NHS Issey Miyake Cassette Playa Boris Hoppek Charlie Le Mindu Jean-Charles De Castelbajac Bas Kosters Maison Martin Margiela Andrea Ayala Closa Bernhard Willhelm Mareunrol’s Pyuupiru Giorgos Tourlas et al.

ARRRGH! breaks new ground in presenting the expansion of a modern-day phenomenon – strange and monstrous Characters – into fashion and clothes. The Characters are the work of contemporary artists, who crossed the human figure with mythic, animal and supernatural forms to create them. In the context of this new trend, artists and fashion designers, both established and up-and-coming, combine new ways of seeing with the semantic codes of apparel to redefine the relationship between our body and clothing, the possibilities of the human form, and the limits on our perception of what is beautiful and what is monstrous.

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Aernout Mik’s contribution to arranging and coordinating the groups of whom his installations and videos are comprised is perhaps best compared to that of a director. He hires his actors, divides them into shifts, pays them by the hour (they get a per diem, of course), provides them with lists of instructions; in short, he is there behind the scenes, quietly orientating the entire spectacle and often imbuing it with something like a directorial perspective. Mik coordinates his people as though they were workers or traders, organizes them like a foreman in a factory, or – perhaps better still – stages deconstruction with consummate skill.

A Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) co-production

Both works are part of the Dimitris Daskalopoulos contemporary art collection. Their owner has kindly made them available for installation and operation at Peiraios 260 in the context of the Athens Festival 2011.

VIDEO INSTALLATION

1 JUNE – 20 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (Α)

AERNOUT MIK PULVEROUS (2003) MOCK-UP (2007)

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Chloë Sevigny

Doug Aitken’s Black Mirror will be presented in two parts:

A performance produced by the Athens Festival in association with the DESTE Foundation in the ports of Peiraias (16 & 17 June) and Hydra (19 & 20 June).

An exhibition produced by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in its exhibition space in the Slaughterhouse, Hydra (20 June-25 September).

Doug Aitken is considered the enfant terrible of video art. The avant-garde Californian artist whose Electric Earth won the International Prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale, knows how to attract attention with his video installations. At the Athens Festival, he is presenting Black Mirror, a new multi-media artwork on an off-shore anchored ferry. Aitken works in the grey area between reality and fiction, combining different mediums including film, architecture, performance, dance, and sound. Black Mirror – the parallel (hi)stories of people who live in different parts of today’s world – is a critique on the dark side of global commerce and the rapid exchange of information and emotion.

Private Sponsor of the Black Mirror exhibition

PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

16 & 17 JUNE / PΕIRAΙΑS

19 & 20 JUNE / HYDRA

DOUG AITKEN BLACK MIRROR

In English with Greek surtitles

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EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL

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Translated by

Kostas Georgousopoulos

Dramaturgy

Petros Filippidis Giorgos Galitis

Directed by

Petros Filippidis

Sets

Giannis Kottis

Costumes

Giannis Metzikof

Music

Minos Matsas

Choreography

Elpida Ninou

Lighting

Eleftheria Deko

Have the gods abandoned Greece? The Peloponnesian War has been raging for ten years, and the desperation and despondency are palpable. Trygaeus of Athens, a shrewd man, decides to take matters in his own hands: climbing astride a huge beetle, he flies up to the heavens for a word with Zeus.

Written in 421 BC, Peace, a paean to rural life in which Aristophanes condemns war and parodies the theatre of his own era, is as relevant today as it ever was.

Directing at Epidaurus for the first time, the sparkling comic actor, Petros Filippidis, plays the lead role amidst a cast of celebrated actors.

Media Sponsor

THEATRE 1 & 2 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

DIADROMI THEATRE PEACEby Aristophanes

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With

Petros Filippidis

Takis Papamattheou

Giorgos Galitis

Giannis Degaitis

Konstantinos Giannakopoulos

Panos Stathakopoulos

Christos Simardanis

Haris Mavroudis

Angelos Bouras

Dimitris Degaitis

Tasos Iordanidis

Spyros Pappas

Christos Syriotis

Eleftherios Eleftheriou

Ilias Giannakis

Dimitris Vogiatzis

Thodoris Bouzikakos

Antonis Antonakos

Dimitris Samolis

Petros Georgopalis

Stavros Svingas

Manolis Hourdakis

Orestis Tziovas

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Text composed by

Kostas Georgousopoulos

Directed by

Giannis Rigas Grigoris Karantinakis

Sets

Lili Pezanou

Costumes

Ersi Drini

Music

Giorgos Christianakis

Choreography

Kostas Gerardos

Lighting

Andreas Bellis

With

Giorgos Armenis Lazaros Georgakopoulos Giannis Kalatzopoulos Tamila Koulieva Giannis Malouhos Foteini Baxevani Alexandra Sakellaropoulou Nikos Psarras

A half century of the State Theatre of Northern Greece. Fifty years of artistic creativity.

A seasoned and outstanding actor guides the younger generation of actors into the heart of ancient drama, stopping at key productions along the way.

The State Theatre of Northern Greece recalls its iconic productions at the ancient theatres of Philippi and Thasos, its first appearance at Epidaurus, magical evenings in the Forest Theatre with Thessaloniki stretched out below for a backdrop. A stroll through the theatrical past and present in a production which pays tribute to the greats of the Greek theatre.

THEATRE 8 & 9 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

STATE THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE RURAL DIONYSIA

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Translation – Dramaturgy – Direction

Stamatis Fasoulis

Sets

Manolis Pantelidakis

Costumes

Deni Vachlioti

Music

Thodoris Oikonomou

Lyrics

Afroditi Manou

Choreography

Fokas Evangelinos

Lighting

Lefteris Pavlopoulos

The history of the theatre enacted on stage in an eclectic production which takes us back to the first stirrings of ancient Greek literature, and from there into the Roman period. Extracts from tragedies and comedies by Greek and Roman poets, choral dances and odes in praise of gods and heroes, mimes and elements from the Roman arena – impressive games, gladiatorial matches, acrobatics and spectacular performances with fire – together form a colourful collage!

A production that engages with the present day through the parallels it draws with the ancient past, and which alternates tragic with comic and lets contemporary audiences in on the joke.

Produced by

THEATRE 15 & 16 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE STAGE-WALKERS

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15|16 AUGUST

NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE STAGE-WALKERS

Translation – Dramaturgy – Direction

Stamatis Fasoulis

Sets

Manolis Pantelidakis

Costumes

Deni Vachlioti

Music

Thodoris Oikonomou

Lyrics

Afroditi Manou

Choreography

Fokas Evangelinos

Lighting

Lefteris Pavlopoulos

With

Nena Menti Sofia Filippidou Nikos Kouris Tania Trypi Eleni Kokkidou Makis Papadimitriou Laertis Malkotsis Evangelia Moumouri Thanasis Alevras Soκratis Patsikas Alkistis Poulopoulou Foivos Rimenas Margarita Loumaki Agoritsa Oikonomou Giorgos Depastas Dimitris Tselios Dimitra Sigala Christos Spanos Tzeni Diagoupi Eleni Vergeti Cleo-Danae Othonaiou Minos Theocharis Nadia Kontogeorgi Iro Bezou Spyros Andreopoulos Angelos Triantafyllou Spyros Kyriazopoulos Antonis Pasvantis Dimitris Kapetanakis Nefeli Kouri

With

Nena Menti

Sofia Filippidou

Nikos Kouris

Tania Trypi

Eleni Kokkidou

Makis Papadimitriou

Laertis Malkotsis

Evangelia Moumouri

Thanasis Alevras

Soκratis Patsikas

Alkistis Poulopoulou

Foivos Rimenas

Margarita Loumaki

Agoritsa Oikonomou

Giorgos Depastas

Dimitris Tselios

Dimitra Sigala

Christos Spanos

Tzeni Diagoupi

Eleni Vergeti

Cleo-Danae Othonaiou

Minos Theocharis

Nadia Kontogeorgi

Iro Bezou

Spyros Andreopoulos

Angelos Triantafyllou

Spyros Kyriazopoulos

Antonis Pasvantis

Dimitris Kapetanakis

Nefeli Kouri

50, 40, 30, 20, Concs. 15 & 10 €

Translated by

Giorgos Cheimonas

Directed by

Antonis Antypas

Sets – Costumes

Giorgos Patsas

Music

Eleni Karaindrou

Movement

Angeliki Stellatou

Lighting

Lefteris Pavlopoulos

Music coaching

Antonis Kontogeorgiou

Voice coaching

Mirka Gementzaki

Literary associate

Giannis Lignadis

“I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die”, Medea exclaims. A dark and alluring creature, the barbarian witch of Colchis, grand-daughter to the Sun himself, is driven by her love for Jason to follow him to Corinth. When Jason betrays her, she devises the cruellest possible punishment.

A tragedy of love and revenge, Medea (431 BC) uses the fathomless clash between cultures and the sexes to force us to engage with a number of complex issues.

Supported by an exceptional cast, Amalia Moutousi plays the title role accompanied by an outstanding group of Greek actors.

Media Sponsor

With thanks to "Spyros Nakas" for providing the piano for the rehearsals.

THEATRE 22 & 23 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

APLO THEATRO MEDEAby Euripides

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THEATREANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS

22|23 JULY

APLO THEATRO – ANTONIS ANTYPASMEDEAby Euripides

Translation

Giorgos Cheimonas

Direction

Antonis Antypas

Sets – Costumes

Giorgos Patsas

Music

Eleni Karaindrou

Movement

Angeliki Stellatou

Lighting

Lefteris Pavlopoulos

Music coaching

Antonis Kontogeorgiou

Voice coaching

Mirka Gementzaki

Literary associate

Giannis Lignadis

With

MEDEA

Amalia Moutousi

JASON

Christos Loulis

NURSE

Maria Katsiadaki

TUTOR

Themis Panou

CREON

Aris Lembesopoulos

AEGEUS

Giannis Dalianis

MESSENGER

Dimitris Imellos

With a 15-member female chorus

CORYPHAEA

Maria Kallimani

“I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die”, Medea exclaims.

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JASON

Christos Loulis

NURSE

Maria Katsiadaki

TUTOR

Themis Panou

CREON

Aris Lembesopoulos

AEGEUS

Giannis Dalianis

MESSENGER

Dimitris Imellos

With a 15-member female chorus

CORYPHAEA

Maria Kallimani

50, 40, 30, 20, Concs. 15 & 10 €

With

Kevin Spacey in

William Shakespeare’s

RICHARD III

Directed by

Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes returns to the stage to direct Old Vic Artistic Director, Kevin Spacey, in the title role of Richard III in the final season of The Bridge Project. This transatlantic endeavour reunites them for the first time since American Beauty, for which they both won BAFTA and Academy Awards.

The full company will again be drawn from leading American and British actors and will embark on an international tour prior to a residency at BAM in New York.

Sam Mendes was founder and Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse for a decade and has directed theatre at the RSC, National Theatre, plus in the West End and on Broadway. His film credits include Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road.

Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey has most recently appeared in Inherit the Wind, Speed-the-Plow, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Richard II at The Old Vic.

THEATRE 29 & 30 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

Bank of America Merrill Lynch presents

THE BRIDGE PROJECTproduced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street

In English with Greek surtitles

Proud Presenting Sponsor of The Bridge Project

Leadership support for The Bridge Project

Media Sponsor

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RICHARD IIIWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY SAM MENDES

50, 45, 25, 15, Concs. 15 €

Translated by

Giorgos Blanas in collaboration with

Michail Marmarinos

Directed by

Michail Marmarinos

Sets

Eleni Manolopoulou

Costumes

Kenny MacLellan

Movement – Choreography

Konstantinos Rigos

Music

Dimitris Kamarotos

Lighting

Thomas Walgrave

Herakles

“…to civilize the world, he says!”

(Amphitryon, Prologue, verse 20)

“Herakles seems to be of the last Greek generation

– a long, long time ago – who believed in and

fought for Ideas. To be betrayed in the end by

friends and enemies alike. And it is with the

absolute taste of betrayal on his lips that he is led

to disaster. And then he will attempt death.”

Michail Marmarinos

Herakles is a staggering work, and one of Euripides’ least-performed plays. Which only serves to intensify the anticipation in advance of this production, only the second in the history of the National Theatre of Greece, directed by Michail Marmarinos.

Produced by

THEATRE 5 & 6 AUGUST / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE

NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE HERAKLESby Euripides

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With

Nikos Karathanos

Karyofyllia Karabeti

Minas Hatzisavvas

Thodoris Atheridis

Giannis Vogiatzis

Stefania Goulioti

Theodora Tzimou

Giorgos Gallos

Haris Tsitsakis Giorgos Biniaris

Giorgos Ziovas

Argyris Pantazaras

Giannis Papadopoulos

Prokopis Agathokleous Alexandros Mavropoulos

Kostas Korakis

Konstantinos Aspiotis

Youla Boudali

Dimitris Makalias

Denis Makris

LITTLE THEATRE OFANCIENT EPIDAURUS

30, 20, Concs. 10 €

Michalis Vrettas vocals

Michalis Kalkanis double bass – vocals

Nikos Paschalidis bouzouki – oud – tzouras – guitar

Nikos Portokaloglou’s idea of a ‘remix’ may not be quite what you’d expect. Playing with a ‘chamber band’, a tightly-knit unit of just three musicians, he gives his songs back their original, pared-down sound. As restless a spirit as he ever was even after a career spanning nearly three decades, he’s stripped his songs down, transforming them afresh to reveal their heartbeat and their origins in unvarnished sounds which allow us to re-discover his “hidden, endless thirst”.

MUSIC 1 & 2 JULY / LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

NIKOS PORTOKALOGLOU IN CONCERT REMIX

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MUSICLITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

1|2 JULY

NIKOS PORTOKALOGLOU IN CONCERTREMIX

Nikos Portokaloglou’s idea of a ‘remix’ may not be quite what you’d expect. Playing with a ‘chamber band’, a tightly-knit unit of just three musicians, he gives his songs back their original, pared-down sound. As restless a spirit as he ever was even after a career spanning nearly three decades, he’s stripped his songs down, transforming them afresh to reveal their heartbeat and their origins in unvarnished sounds which allow us to re-discover his “hidden, endless thirst”.

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“In this magical corner of Greece”, Monika will be presenting her work in an altogether different concert. Accompanied by a choir and strings, she will be performing songs new and beloved from her albums Avatar and Exit on piano and guitar, in her trademark minimalist style. We are all invited to one of “her most inspired moments, far from electricity and the hum of intensity”.

MUSIC 8 & 9 JULY / LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

MONIKA AT THE LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

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MUSICLITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

8|9 JULY

MONIKA AT THE LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

“In this magical corner of Greece”, Monika will be presenting her work in an altogether different concert. Accompanied by a choir and strings, she will be performing songs new and beloved from her albums Avatar and Exit on piano and guitar in her trademark minimal style. We are all invited to one of “her most inspired moments, far from electricity and the hum of intensity”.

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30, 20, Concs. 10 €

Two artists who have always enjoyed a sense of kinship from afar, and whose recent work has elevated the concept of the cover version into art, meet on stage for the first time. It’s the excitement of not knowing quite what to expect that is drawing them – and us – to a concert which is clearly one of a kind, and breaks new ground in the Greek music sphere. Forever seeking new musical directions, Dimitra Galani has thoroughly rebuilt her repertoire of songs, while Vassilikos has added his personal touch to a number of major international hits. Their collaboration embraces everything ‘real’ – Greek or not – which stands the test of time.

MUSIC 15 & 16 JULY / LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

DIMITRA GALANI AND VASSILIKOS IN CONCERT

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30, 20, Concs. 10 €

Directed by

Mania Papadimitriou

Sets

Artemis Theodoridi

Video Art

Evangelia Christakou

Music supervision

Tasos Antoniou Spyros Papatheodorou

Texts editing

Mania Papadimitriou Agathi Dimitrouka

With

Tasos Antoniou vocals – guitar – mandolin

Evelina Arapidou vocals

Theodora Evgenaki vocals

Mania Papadimitriou vocals

Victoria Kyriakidi flute

Marina Chronopoulou piano – electric piano – accordion

Agapitos Mandalios

The much-loved poet and lyricist, Nikos Gatsos, who indelibly marked the work of an entire generation of poets and musicians with his presence, speaks straight to our hearts once more in this imaginative music-theatre production. And while all those who will attend the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus will have an opportunity to rediscover Nikos Gatsos through a spectacle that conveys the uniqueness of the poet and his era with sensitivity, humour and vivacity, they will also be treated to a hundred years in the history of the land that gave him birth.

THEATRE 22 & 23 JULY / LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

THE KNOWN UNKNOWN MR GATSOS

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Tickets go on sale 3 weeks before a given performance.

Phone booking & Ticket info: +30210 32 72 000

Telephone operators: Daily 09:00-21:00

Automated (IVR) bookings:Daily 24hrs

Online booking

Visit our website to purchase tickets on-line:www.greekfestival.gr

*On-line bookings cease at 14:00 on the day of the performance, and IVR bookings the day before the performance.Ticket reservations are electronically monitored to prevent double-bookings.

Box office addresses & opening hours

CENTRAL39, Panepistimiou Str. (in the Pesmazoglou Arcade)

Monday-Friday 08:30-16:00 Saturday 09:00-14:30

ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUSDaily 9:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00

ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUSMonday-Thursday 9:00-14:00 & 17:00-20:00 Friday-Saturday 9:30- 21:30

OTHER VENUESTicket booths are in operation at all Festival venues. Opening two hours prior to every performance, they only sell tickets for that day’s performances.

Tickets are also sold at ELEFTHEROUDAKIS and PAPASOTIRIOU bookstores.

Ticket information

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Concessions

Available for children aged 6-18, university students (on presentation of a valid International Student Identity Card), and people with disabilities.

ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS50% off on seats in the upper tier and Zone C.

Wheelchair users: up to 8 seats avail-able in Zone A1 of the lower tier.

Disabled people (plus 1 companion per person): 10 seats available in Zone A2 of the lower tier.

ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS 50% off on seats in the upper tier and Zone B.

Wheelchair users: up to 10 seats avail-able in Section K of the lower tier.

Disabled people (plus 1 companion per person): in the sections of the theatre where discounted tickets are available.

Start times

All performances: 21:00 unless otherwise specified.

Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus: 21:30

Please remember that members of the audience are prohibited from:

• Entering the theatre after the performance has started, except during the intermission if one has been programmed.

• Smoking and consuming food and drinks in the theatre.

• Taking photographs, with or without a flash, or recording any part of the performance.

• Bringing children under six years of age (not applicable to children’s performances).

• Tipping.

• Returning tickets.

Members of the audience must:

• Display the relevant ID at the box office when picking up tickets bought via credit cards or when they are holding a concession price ticket (students, minors) – proof of eligibility is required.

• Deactivate their cellular telephones during all performances.

Age RestrictionNo admittance to children under a specified age limit. Tickets will not be sold to anyone under the age limit.

Ticket RefundIn the event of cancellation, an announcement will be made regarding refunds.

All performances are in Greek unless otherwise specified.

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ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS (HERODEION)(Acropoli Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 3241807

PEIRAIOS 260 (Kallithea ISAP Station)

MEGARON, THE ATHENS CONCERT HALLVas. Sofias Ave. & Kokkali Str.(Megaro Moussikis Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 7282333

ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE107-109, Sygrou Ave.(Sygrou – Fix Metro Station)

Tel. +30213 0 178000

APO MICHANIS THEATRO13, Akadimou Str.(Metaxourghio Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 5231131

TECHNOPOLIS100, Peiraios Str.(Kerameikos Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 3461589

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (NMCA)17–19, Vas. Georgiou II & Rigilis Str.(Evangelismos Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 9242111-3

MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART4, Neofytou Douka Str. / 1, Herodotou Str. & Vass. Sofias Ave.(Evangelismos Metro Station)

Tel. + 30210 7228321

BENAKI MUSEUM138, Peiraios Str. & Andronikou Str.(Kerameikos Metro Station)

Tel. +30210 3453111

VENUE key

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KUNSTHALLE ATHENA28, Kerameikou Str.(Metaxourghio Metro Station)

BERNIER / ELIADES GALLERY11, Eptachalkou Str.(Thissio ISAP Station)

Tel. +30210 3413935-7

KOREAN MARKETOpposite the Archeological Site of Kerameikos(Thissio ISAP Station)

METROPOLITAN EXPOMetro / Suburban railway Airport Station

URBAN SPACES

Urban Space #1ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS (ASFA)256, Peiraios Str.

Urban Space #29th & 34th Junior High School of Athens2, Troon Str., Thissio

Urban Space #3 & Urban Space #4 IFA – Insitut Français d’ Athènes32, Sina Str.

Urban Space #5National Railway Station (OSE)1-3 Karolou Str.

ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS Archaeological site of “The Asklepion of Epidaurus”Tel. +3027530 22026, +3027530 22096

LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUSPalaia Epidavros – Argolis

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Music 1

A TRIBUTE TO ΙANNIS XENAKIS (20% Off)

3 June Peiraios 260 (Η)

ARDITTI QUARTET

6 June Peiraios 260 (Η)

LONDON SINFONIETTA

8 June Peiraios 260 (Η)

ERGON ENSEMBLE

Music 2

ORCHESTRAS AT THE ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS (20% Off)

12 June Herodeion

A TRIBUTE TO FRANZ LISZT / THESSALONIKI STATE ORCHESTRA – Alexandros Myrat

24 June Herodeion

A TRIBUTE TO ODYSSEAS ELYTIS / ORCHESTRA OF COLOURS – Miltos Logiades

26 June Herodeion

A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA – Semyon Bychkov

Music 3

A TRIBUTE TO MAHLER + 1 (20% Off)

26 June Herodeion

A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA – Semyon Bychkov

13 July Herodeion

THE BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA – Vassily Sinaisky / Works by Rachmaninoff, Dvo k

15 July Herodeion

A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA – Vassilis Christopoulos

Music 4

OPERA (20% Off)

4 July Megaron (Lambrakis Hall)

LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIE / MOZART, Idomeneo

6 July Onassis Cultural Centre

LATINITAS NOSTRA / MONTEVERDI, The Coronation of Poppea

12 & 14 July Megaron (Trianti Hall)

THE BOLSHOI OPERA / TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin

On sale from May 11th

Ticket offers

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Dance 1

GREEK DANCE COMPANIES (20% Off)

11-12 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

ELPIDA ORFANIDOU – Parrots at the seabed (21:00) / TRIO 7D9 – Rush (22:00)

15-16 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / Blockbuster

25-26 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

PERSA STAMATOPOULOU DANCE CO. / Look at me

29-30 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THE PLANT COLLECTIVE / Double Take

Dance 2

(25% Off)

17-19 June Peiraios 260 (Η)

ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / Araz

22-23 June Peiraios 260 (D)

CIE MAGUY MARIN / May B

27-29 June Peiraios 260 (D)

CIE MAGUY MARIN / Salves

3-5 July Peiraios 260 (D)

ΤΗΕ FORSYTHE COMPANY / Yes we can't

19-20 July Herodeion

SYLVIE GUILLEM / 6,000 miles away Choreographies by Ek, Forsythe, Kylian

Dance 3

(20% Off)

11-12 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

ELPIDA ORFANIDOU – Parrots at the seabed (21:00) / TRIO 7D9 – Rush (22:00)

15-16 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / Blockbuster

27-29 June Peiraios 260 (D)

CIE MAGUY MARIN / Salves

Dance 4

(20% Off)

17-19 June Peiraios 260 (Η)

ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / Araz

22-23 June Peiraios 260 (D)

CIE MAGUY MARIN / May B

25-26 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

PERSA STAMATOPOULOU DANCE CO. / Look at me

29-30 June Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THE PLANT COLLECTIVE / Double Take

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Theatre 1

(20% Off)

13-17 June Peiraios 260 (D)

Medusa – Drafts and improvisations on rafts and shipwrecks

18 June Herodeion

STAVROS S. TSAKIRIS / Nijinsky – I am puppet in the hands of God…

22-25 June Peiraios 260 (H)

SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO – Romeo Castellucci / On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God

Theatre 2

(20% Off)

10-12 & 15-19 June Metropolitan Expo

THÉ TRE DU SOLEIL – Ariane Mnouchkine / The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises)

28 June - 1 July Onassis Cultural Centre

KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI / (A)pollonia

5 July Herodeion

ARIS RETSOS / The throne of Atreus

9-10 July Herodeion

WAJDI MOUAWAD / Women

Theatre 3

(20% Off)

3-5 July Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Melpo Axioti – The transformation of the chrysalis

5 July Herodeion

ARIS RETSOS / The throne of Atreus

8-10 July Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Partali

13-15 July Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Clytemnestra – Stage E

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Theatre - Music - Dance

(20% Off)

9-10 July Herodeion

WAJDI MOUAWAD / Women

12 & 14 July Megaron (Trianti Hall)

THE BOLSHOI OPERA / TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin

19-20 July Herodeion

SYLVIE GUILLEM / 6,000 miles away Choreographies by Ek, Forsythe, Kylian

Theatre - Dance

(20% Off)

18 June Herodeion

STAVROS S. TSAKIRIS / Nijinsky – I am puppet in the hands of God…

22-25 June Peiraios 260 (H)

SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO – Romeo Castellucci / On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God

27-29 June Peiraios 260 (D)

CIE MAGUY MARIN / Salves

3-5 July Peiraios 260 (D)

ΤΗΕ FORSYTHE COMPANY / Yes we can't

7-9 July Peiraios 260 (Η)

KOLYADA TEATR / SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

Emerging Greek Artists

(20% Off)

6 July Onassis Cultural Centre

LATINITAS NOSTRA / MONTEVERDI, The Coronation of Poppea

11-13 July NMCA

VASISTAS THEATRE COMPANY / Spectacle

14-17 July Peiraios 260 (D)

PEQUOD THEATRE COMPANY / Working Hypothesis

18-20 July Peiraios 260 (Ε)

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / PAPADIAMANTIS, A Dream on the Wave

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Publications Department

Editor-in-chief

Klimentini Vounelaki

Co-ordination

Anastasios Koukoutas

Contributing editors:

MUSIC

Leonidas Antonopoulos [World Sounds]

Khar lampos Goy s [A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis, The Beggars’ Operas]

Kyriakos Loukakos [Le Cercle de l’Harmonie]

Dionysis Mallouhos [A Tribute to Liszt]

Yulie Papatheodorou [Greek National Opera, The Bolshoi Opera, Latinitas Nostra, A Tribute to Mahler]

Katerina Schina [Filarmonica della Scala]

Isma M. Toulatou [The Bolshoi Orchestra]

THEATRE

Editor-in-chief

Dio Kangelari

Kallia Anagnostaki [Urban Space #1, Urban Space #3, Urban Space #4, Urban Space #5, Theatrical Monologues / Clytemnestra – Stage E]

Martha Koskina [Theatrical Monologues / A Dream on the Wave]

Katerina Konstantinakou [Theatrical Monologues, Vasistas Theatre Co., Pequod Theatre Co.]

Gianna Tsokou [Nijinsky, DI.PE.THE. of Crete, Diadromi Theatre, N.Greece State Theatre, Aplo Theatre]

DANCE

Editor-in-chief Klimentini Vounelaki Anastasios Koukoutas [trio 7d9, Zeynep Tanbay, The Plant Collective]

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Panagiotis Douros [Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus]

Maria Lambrou [Naked Hands]

Maria Panagiotopoulou [Theatrical Monologues / Dirt, A Tribute to Odysseas Elytis]

Selana Vronti [Doug Aitken]

Hellenic Festival S.A.

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Translations

Michael Eleftheriou

Editing - Proofreading

Fani Boubouli Rania Boubouri

Art direction - Layout

designpark.gr

Layout editing

Eleni Sgontzou

Printing Co-ordination

Eva Veneka

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