Gearing up for Epidaurus

From: http://www.avgi.gr/article/3350630/stin-teliki-eutheia-gia-tin-epidauro

The Epidaurus Festival presented its latest summer productions and co-productions yesterday, now entering the final stretch for the completion of this year's Epidavrias. Three theatrical and one musical performance will share the stage of the ancient theater, as well as that of Little Epidaurus.
The principle will be this week, at 18 and 19 July, by Philoctetes of Sophocles, disclosed in co-production with DIPETHE Patras – “The only way to continue to exist”, as the director of Thodoris Ambatzis said. The director Kostas Filippoglou noted that the show is specially adapted for the area of ​​Epidaurus, while he dwelled on his experimentation with dance, who takes a leading role. Michael Marmarinos, who plays the title role, He refused any reduction in today, as “we continue to be inside the myth”, while Konstantinos Markoulakis spoke of a performance that abolishes the academic opposition – research form.
The same weekend, in Mikri Epidaurus, Dimitris Bassis and Iota Nega will present a musical performance dedicated to the songs of xenity. Having emphasized the immigrant child, the popular singer explained that it is a choice 35-40 important songs, from traditional to modern, while C. Nega noted that they do not only concern those who leave, but also those who are looking for a second home here, after “the longing has no race or color”.
In the same theater, a week later, the first part will be presented in Peloponnesian war by Roula Pateraki. as explained, axes of this “relaxed in the connection of the theatrical action” are the first clashes, pestilence, the Epitaph of Pericles and Thucydides himself. Dimitris Lignadis will perform the demagoguery, who noted that the work of the ancient historian “reflects the modern Greek Narrative”.
End, for the second time will be at the theater argoliko, at 8-9 August, Angela Brouskou, which directs Bacchae, a “trekking along with Dionysus, which will go to Epidaurus”.