The programme Educating audiences in ancient drama and the Dialogues event will next be held on Monday, March 19th at the Vouleftikon hall in Nafplio, featuring Kostas Filippoglou as the guest speaker.
Filippoglou, director of The Frogs, scheduled to be held at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus on 19 August 2018, will run a workshop, analyzing his directorial take on Aristophanes’ masterpiece together with the audience.
Participants will have the opportunity either to attend the event in their capacity as audience or to take part in the workshop’s experiential section and, together with the director, explore the various approaches to the play in a physical and creative manner.
More events and open workshops of the Dialogues event will be held at Vouleftikon in the coming weeks:
16 April – Thanos Papakonstantinou (Electra by Sophocles)
7 May – Konstantinos Ntellas (Antigone by Sophocles)
21 May – Martha Frintzila (Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus)
The Athens & Epidaurus Festival programme Educating audiences in ancient drama is supported by the Municipality of Nafplio and realized in collaboration with the Theatre Studies Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese, under the auspices of the Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education in Peloponnese, with the cooperation of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolis.
For 2018, the Argolis activities are inspired by this year’s theme, Polis and the Citizen, encompassing experiential workshops for school students, teachers and adult residents of Argolis, as well as visitors from around the world. The programme is run by experienced theatre educators, researchers, directors and artists, under the supervision of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese. Moderators include Georgina Kakoudaki, director and co-curator for educational programmes of Athens & Epidaurus Festival; Christina Zoniou, who teaches acting at the Theatre Studies Department, and Angeliki Tsakona, theatre researcher and educator, specializing in the project Creative Children Workshop of Athens & Epidaurus Festival.
Info: lyceumepidaurus@greekfestival.gr
https://aefestival.gr/en/epidaurus_lyceum/page/paralliles-draseis-tou-lukeiou-epidaurou
