The Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2012 hosts one of Aristophanes' finest comedies. The Chickens produced by DIPETHE of Crete are coming to the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus for two performances, on Friday 10 and on Saturday 11 August, at 21:00.
In times of severe crisis, the search for utopia returns more fiercely. The director Yiannis Kakleas with a staff of notable actors and the legendary music of Hadjidakis as an ally, looking for today's Nephelococcygia.
Extremely topical comedy, the Hens were written the 414 e.g., time when the war, the hunger, debts and decline plagued Athens. Desperation drives two elderly Athenians to flee and create the ideal city in alliance with birds.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
A journey into the desire for a free world, a fair world, asking for Happiness are the "Chickens" of Aristophanes.
This great satirical poet tells us a story of overthrowing a corrupt society, decadent, of a society that degrades the desire for Life, in a desperate effort to survive.
"Chickens" is a political text and at the same time a poetic parable that scorns an inhumane world and dreams of "a society of birds", that is, a society with imagination, which adopts the Archetypal values of Law, of Merit and Perpetual Motion. A society that may seem unrealized but that if Man stops desiring it is in danger of annihilation.
"Chickens" is a work as modern as man's need to fly above his individual and social commitments and create an "other" society, without hypocrisy, fear, destructive rage and social injustice.
Utopian; It depends on us!
Yannis Kakleas
Director
Date Friday 10 and on Saturday 11 August 2012, at 21:00
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