The National Theatre of Greece’s second production is equally innovative.
Roula Pateraki, an outstanding artist who never settles for a conventional approach, directs Sophocles’ two Oedipus plays (Oedipus Rex, 420 BC, and Oedipus at Colonus, 406 BC) in a single production featuring a hand-picked cast with Michail Marmarinos in the title role.
Having found out the truth – that Oedipus is his father’s murderer and his mother’s husband – Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus, “blind where he once could see and poor instead of rich, will head for a strange land”. Accompanied by Antigone, he arrives in Athens and the grove of the Eumenides, where he is fated to die and be buried [V.T.].
Translated by
Ioannis Lignades, Roula Pateraki
Adapted - Directed by
Roula Pateraki
Stage Sets
Eva Manidaki
Costumes
Angelos Mentis
Music
Dimitris Kamarotos
Choreography
Amalia Bennett
Literature Consultant
Natalia Minioti
Lighting
Lefteris Pavlopoulos
Assistant Director
Tasia Sofianidou
Assistant Set Designer
Vassia Lyri
Assistant Costume Designer
Maria Ilia
Assistant Choreographer
Panagiotis Kontonis
Cast
Oedipus: Michail Marmarinos
Antigone: Karyofyllia Karabeti
Jocasta: Mania Papadimitriou
Servant: Dimitris Piatas
Creon: Manos Vakousis
Ismene: Loukia Michalopoulou
Theseus/Corinthian Messenger: Nikos Hatzopoulos
Boy/Messenger: Kosmas Fontoukis
Polyneices: Kostas Vassardanis
Tiresias: Manos Stalakis
Stranger/Priest: Haris Tsitsakis
Musicians
Spyros Kontos, oboe, english horn
Sophia Baltatzi, violin
Chorus
Ilias Asproudis, Vasilis Boulougouris, Enkeled Fezzolari, Christos Georgiou, Giorgos Oikonomou, Stavros Kalligas, Sotiris Karkalatos, Argyris Kavidas, Vasillis Margetis, Dakis Mavroudis, Dimitris Moschonas, Giannis Papadopoulos, Thodoris Polyzonis, Nikolaos Psarianos, Giorgos Psychogios, Anastasios Raptis, Sarantos Rigakos, Panagiotis Sakelariou, Christos Taktikos, Lazaros Vartanis, Kostas Vassardanis, Ilias Zervos
With the participation of
Chrysovalantis Kostopoulos, Fotis Lagopoulos, Nikos Makris, Thanasis Petropoulos, Chris Radanov
€50 (Prime Circle); €45 (Α’); €25 (Β’); €15 (Upper Tier). Concessions available.
