If Aristophanes were alive today, would he still hand over the affairs of state to its women? As he once proposed, in 392 BC, when his city, Athens, was defeated and in decline. Faithful to tradition and good with money, the Athenian women of the Ecclesiazusae—a comedy of a more philosophical than political bent—declare the common ownership of all property. Could this be the comic poet’s response to Plato’s Republic?
In this contemporary reading directed by Vangelis Theodoropoulos, the Neos Kosmos Theatre explores the issue of women’s rule and revels in the theatre inherent in the exchanging of gender roles.
Directed by
Vangelis Theodoropoulos
Adapted by
Vasilis Mavrogeorgiou
Music
Thanos Mikroutsikos
Set – Costumes
Angelos Mentis
Choreography
Angeliki Stellatou
With
Daphne Lambrogianni (Praxagora)
Kostas Koklas (Blepyrus)
Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos (A young man)
Pantelis Dentakis (Chremes)
Nikos Kardonis (First man)
Stratos Christou (Second man)
Georgia Georgoni (A girl)
and a 12-member female Chorus
50€ (VIP)
40€ (Zone Α)
30€ (Zone Β)
15€ (Students- Zone Β)
20€ (Upper Tier)
10€ (Students- Upper Tier, People with Movement Difficulties)