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The Persians

    • ©STAVROS HABAKIS
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    • ©STAVROS HABAKIS
    • ©STAVROS HABAKIS
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    • ©STAVROS HABAKIS
    • ©STAVROS HABAKIS
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    THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLOUS

    ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS 2017

    We find ourselves in the realms of narcissism and arrogance. It is a walled-in, marginalized area that has been imposed, not chosen. Hunger for power, unrestrained total control, and enforced obedience are considered the noblest of values. The elimination of free will and the compliance to the One and the equal-to-a-God King reinforce the despairing inertia of the kingdom and its subjects. The frenzied clamor for control and contempt will soon begin to sound and the son-king will become ravenous and voracious. He will set off his campaign vigorously trying to gain more wealth. Pride, arrogance and disdain will prevail. We are set to watch in the show the shaking of what so far has been and unshakeable system. The news that the campaign has been crashed arrive. The empire of solitude and dogma has been defeated by people who are free, by people who are not slaves or subjects to anyone.
    The performance combines poetic speech, live music and acting. The actors approach the meaning, the rhythm and the sounds of the poetic text with musicality as a means of representation and transformation. The main characters, as well as the Chorus, reveal the musical texture of the play through their performance. Using this simple architecture, the performance unfolds through the use of essential components – action, words, songs and movement – and aims to reveal incessant vibrations of ancient Greek drama and its appeal nowadays.

    Translation Panagiotis Moullas

    Director- musical dramaturgy Aris Biniaris

    Verse coaching Theodoros Stefanopoulos

    Set design Constantinos Louca

    Costume design Eleni Tzirkalli

    Movement Lia Haraki

    Lighting design Georgios Koukoumas

    Assistant to the director Dimitris Himonas

    Produced by CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION, ATHENS AND EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL

    Cast: Karyofyllia Karabeti (Atossa), Harry Charalambous (Messenger), Nikos Psarras (Darius), Antonis Miriagos (Xerxes)

    Chorus: Elias Andreou, Petros Georgadjis, Giorgos Evagorou, Nektarios Theodorou, Marios Konstantinou, Panayiotis Larkou, David Malteze, Yiannis Minos, Aris Biniaris, Giorgos Onisiforou, Onisiforos Onisiforou, Manos Petrakis, Stefanos Pittas, Konstantinos Sevdalis

     

    Tour 2017- 2018

    The production has been shown at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus and varius ancient theatres in Greece and Cyprus.

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    Date

    April 3, 2020

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