It started impressively in Athens, filling up the Petra Theater and continued to sell out continuously
in the cities where it is played, from B. Greece to Crete and the Peloponnese. Iphigeneia in Euripides' Aulidis, directed by Themis Moumoulidis in a production of the 5th AGE OF ART, in collaboration with DI.PE.THE. Verias, have been warmly applauded so far 50.000 viewers all over Greece highlighting it in the great success of this summer.

The tour ends in Athens with three performances at the Badminton Theatre, where the scenery will be adapted specifically for a closed space.

At 13, 14 and 15 September the Athenian audience will have the opportunity to enjoy a troupe of elite protagonists in a performance that brings to the fore the tragically relevant concept of sacrifice.

Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulidis is one of the leading texts of the ancient Greek treatise, it is a deeply political text, an ironic and at the same time tragic comment on the subject of political expediency. Iphigenia is a symbol of every sacrifice, it is the atoning victim of the political expediency of each era. Iphigenia doesn't just sacrifice her life, but mainly, he sacrifices, her innocence as she is summoned almost instantly, to realize the mercilessness of this world.

The show...

"The performance attempts a contemporary stage reading of the text, in a poetic visual environment, with the modern musical arrangement of K. Beta. A shot. Darkness. A woman dead. Somewhere near a beach. A set of female death witnesses, are interrogated. Suicide or murder. Dance takes on a face, every woman expresses herself differently. Chorals become the point of meeting and confrontation with history. The heroes are each looking for their own truth, each expressing a different world, which stubbornly refuses to coexist with the self-evident…

The concept of sacrifice takes on multiple dimensions. It is akin to murder…”

The show is being translated by K. X. FRAGRANCE, directing – text editing THEME MOUMOULIDI, scenery by GIORGOS PATS, PANAGIOTA KOKKOROU costumes, music by KONSTANTINOU VITA, lighting by NICOS SOTIROPOULOS.

They star:

WALNUT LEAVES OF KARABETI [Clytemnestra], STELIOS MAINAS [Agamemnon] IOANNA PAPPA [Iphigenia], MHNAS HATZISAVVAS [ambassador], YIANNIS STANKOGLOU [Achilles], ALEXANDRA SAKELLAROPOULOU [angel], ANGELOS BOURAS [Menelaus], LUKIA MICHALOPOULOU, MAROUSKA PANAGIOTOPOULOU, YANNA PAPAGEORGIOU, LENA PAPALEGOURA, ARETI PASCHALI.

RITA ANTONOPOULOU plays the leading role.

The story…

THE “Iphigenia in Avlidis”, is the penultimate work of Euripides. It fulfills the divine will of Artemis that Iphigenia be sacrificed, daughter of the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon, in order for fair winds to blow and the fleet of the Greeks to set sail for Troy.

The war is happening this time because Paris stole Menelaus' wife Helen, thus insulting Greece. The Greek fleet waits in Avlis for the winds to blow...

Agamemnon's initial decision to accept the oracle, in a state of confusion and panic and his false announcement of Iphigenia's marriage to Achilles in order to drive Iphigenia to the Court, it is soon recalled by him. However in the end, Agamemnon, despite the pleas of Clytemnestra and Iphigenia, decides the sacrifice. The Iphigenia, she is called in a moment to realize the irreversible change in her life. Weak and disgusted in the face of the army's violence, defenseless, and innocent,  decides, with an ironic speech that borders on sarcasm, to sacrifice himself voluntarily.

The sacrifice is decided! The campaign will begin… The story continues…

The question remains: Sacrifice or murder;

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The Badminton Music Court will host, in the framework of the titled events "Personal Routes" Noti Mavroudi, ο οποίος πλαισιωμένο από τη Γιώτα Νέγκα και το Χρήστο Κωνσταντόπουλο θα παρουσιάσει μια μουσική παράσταση με τίτλο «Ποτάμι ο καιρός», at 4 and 5 September 2012.

Ο Νότης Μαυρουδής μπήκε στη δισκογραφία το 1964 με τα τραγούδια «Άκρη δεν έχει ο ουρανός» και «Τα γιορτινά σου φόρεσε», σε στίχους του Γιάννη Κακουλίδη με ερμηνευτή τον Γιώργο Ζωγράφο.

Γιορτάζοντας πέντε δεκαετίες στο χώρο της μουσικής, he comes to the Music Courtyard to anthologize for us his rich recording career that makes him an important chapter of modern Greek musical creation. Με έργα για κιθάρα και κοσμοαγάπητα τραγούδια. Έρχεται και πάλι κοντά μας με οδηγό τις κιθάρες και τις φυσαρμόνικες, with colors, whispers and squeals. Looking for communication through songs that have marked the common sensibility throughout time, within time, in the light of night...

The show "Oedipus the Tyrant" directed by Tsezaris Grouzinis continues its extremely successful tour. As part of its summer tour, the show will be presented on 24 and 25 August in the Ancient Theater of Philippi.

The artivities company and the VOLOU REGION, in the framework of the ATHENS FESTIVAL they present his summer 2012 to the audience of Epidaurus, of Herodion and the largest cities of the region of Greece, the tragedy of Sophocles OEDIPUS TYRANTUS, directed by Cesaris Grouzinis, with Konstantinos Markoulakis and Emilios Chiilakis in the leading roles.

Cesaris Grouzinis, the Lithuanian director known to the Greek theater audience, tackles the emblematic tragedy with the translation of Minos Volanakis as his weapons, the group way of storytelling and actors trained in the ancient Attic speech.  

Kenny McLellan on sets and costumes, Dimitris Theocharis in the music composition and Nikos Vlasopoulos in the lighting, will be his valuable collaborators to highlight the tragedy of the man who receives the harshest blows of the Divine Judgment for an insult he unknowingly committed.

A terrible pestilence afflicts Thebes. The oracle states that the city will only be saved if the murderer of the previous king Laius is punished. Oedipus, who reigns now, he asks to find the one who killed Laius. The seer of Tiresias accuses Oedipus of being the city's miasma. Oedipus is enraged and suspects a conspiracy against him. In the course of the search for the killer, the truth is gradually revealed, the hero discovers who he really is. Son and murderer of King Laius but also husband of Jocasti's mother. After the tragic and inevitable fate is revealed, Jocasta is hanged. Oedipus blinds himself.

In the last words of the dance Sophocles writes: "...For that which dies wait for its narrow day, before you bless it…” This evocative story, which matured her for thousands of years, it reveals how ephemeral human prosperity and glory are. How fragile is our hope for an eternal and stable sense of security and peace.

However, the intention of Cesaris Grouzinis in putting on this show, it is not didactic (though wise) proclamation of the need to obey one's destiny.

Especially now, especially here, he is attracted by the opportunity to speak about the inalienable right and the opportunity for man to remain proud even in the most disastrous situation and accept any curse with dignity.

In other words, to give honor to a man, who bows to his terrible fate, without being humiliated.

Actors play: Emilios Cheilakis, Konstantinos Markoulakis, Christos Sapountzis, Kostas Koroneios, Alberto Feis, Kostas Seiradakis, Yannis Tsemberlides, Panagiotis Exarcheas, Onik Ketsoyan, George Papandreou, Jeff Maarawi.

PROGRAM OF PERFORMANCES
 Date.            Location Tickets Presale Time
24/8  Ancient Theater of Philippi €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
25/8  Ancient Theater of Philippi €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
26/8  Outdoor Municipal Theater of Xanthi €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
27/8  Egnatia Open Air Theatre (Alex/polis)     14€ – 17€ 14 € 21:00
28/8  Dasous Theater of Thessaloniki €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
29/8  Dasous Theater of Thessaloniki €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
31/8  Ancient Theater of Messina €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
6/9    Herod Atticus Conservatory €14 – 17€ 21:00
7/9    Herod Atticus Conservatory €30 – 15€ 21:00
8/9    Old Eleirgeio Theater of Elefsina €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
10/9   Rematia Theater of Chalandrio €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
11/9   Rematia Theater of Chalandrio €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
12/9   Municipal Theater of Alsus Ilioupoli 15 € 15 € 21:00
13/9   Municipal Garden Theater of Papagos €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
14/9   Veakeio Theater Piraeus €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
15/9   Petra Theater of Petroupoli €14 – 17€ 14 € 21:00
17/9   Veikou Grove, Galatsi 15 € 15 € 21:00
18/9   Alexis Minotis Theater €15 15 € 21:00

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The "Technopolis" of the Municipality of Athens will host Giannis Kotsiras, who, together with the Studiadina of Nea Ionia Volos, will present a concert entitled "The Smyrna of Love", who wake up 90 years of memory with Smyrna songs, at 6 September 2012.

ORCHESTRA ARTISTIC DIRECTOR : ANDREAS KATSIGIANNIS
Performers Thodoris Mermigas and Irini Tumbakis participate

The Student of Nea Ionia Volos and Yiannis Kotsiras , on the occasion of 90 years of memory in Smyrna and the recent release of their album "SMYRNI TOU EROTA", present on Thursday, September 6 at "Technopolis" of the Municipality of Athens on 21:00 a great concert dedicated to the folk tradition and artistic creation of Smyrna. The show's repertoire consists of songs that have marked the 20s, while their traces reach up to World War II. Where can I find a woman who looks like you?, Beautiful Smyrnia,  Antonis Varkaris, Misirlou, The Gelekaki, Micromarried etc.  Elements so different from each other become one in the music that flourishes at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th in the region of Istanbul and Izmir. Songs that were the forerunner of Piraeus [rebetiki] school, σπουδαίων συνθετών, such as Kostas Skarvelis, Δημήτρης Σέμσης, Panagiotis Toundas, Σπύρος Περιστέρης, Νίκος Ρουμπάνης, Yannis Dragatsis or Ogdontakis, Γιάννης Νταλγκάς, Κώστας Κοφινιώτης, Apostolos Hatzichristos and quite traditionally unknown authors. These songs were not written only in Smyrna. They are songs that have every kind of connection with Smyrna. Είτε γράφτηκαν εκεί, whether they come from Smyrna creators in the Greek area.

Η καταστροφή του 1922 after all, was to change the course of Greek history in many ways. Ανάμεσα στα άλλα, he was supposed to bring the great masters of Smyrna from the shores of Asia Minor to cross their art with the Greek musicians. The music performed by the Students, the orchestras that were the biggest "study" where great Asia Minor creators taught and learned, arrived in Greece around 1870, at first on the outskirts of Athens and very soon it also conquered the center of the city of Athens. This kind of orchestra became the first and most authentic musical bridge, harmoniously combining the disparate nationalities, musically, cultural and creative elements of two such different worlds.

The proposed performance is a modern interpretation approach, with one of the most important Greek performers, Yiannis Kotsiras and with the Nea Ionia Volos School under the artistic direction of Andreas Katsigiannis, an excellent orchestra that genuinely and sensitively continues the tradition of the great orchestras that flourished in Asia Minor. With a Mediterranean temperament, excellent interpretations and with the orchestra's particular orchestral eye, the deep eroticism hidden in these songs is shown, with absolute respect for the original musical writing. Thodoris Mermigas and Irini Tumbaki participate in the interpretation.

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

Ticket prices 50€ (VIP)
40€ (Zone A.)
30€ (Zone B.)
15€ (Student – Zone B.)
20€ (Upper Diazoma)
10€ (Student – Upper Diazoma, DISABLED)

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