Choros Theatre Company – Simos Kakalas

Practice: Epidaurus – Syssemon

The Choros Theatre Company continues its profound investigations, here approaching ancient Greek theatre through fragments of plays by the three great tragedians and parts of a work of contemporary poetry, Syssemon by Nikos Panagiotopoulos. They take things back to the beginning in the belief that “in a time where everyone shouts over one other, and where everything holds our attention no more than a moment, we have a duty to face up to the enormity of existence that goes beyond us, to try on the faces of people who have gone before us and to recognise something of ourselves. Epidaurus-Syssemon is a preconcerted signal (syssemon) between the Company and the audience, a desperate act that gives voice to the destitute”.