Katerina Evangelatos, distinguished stage director and Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, returns to Epidaurus with a National Theatre of Greece production following Alcestis (2017), a performance which had caused a sensation.
Aphrodite plots a game of revenge and watches, as a voyeur, how humankind turns into a plaything for her whims. We see through her own set of eyes as the characters are laid bare. The naked bodies are charged with outbursts, desire, lust, but also the innocence of the human race. A directorial perspective that delves into the savage world of Euripides’ play, approaching it as a contemporary nightmare amid a poetic scenery, where characters struggle with their weaknesses and where love is so mad it can’t help but be fatal. A stellar cast of 24 actors and four musicians will be constantly on stage.
The performance contains nudity and is suitable for audiences over 15 years old
Translated by Kostas Topouzis
Dramaturgy – Adaptation – Directing Katerina Evangelatos
Set design Eva Manidaki
Music Alexandros-Drakos Ktistakis
Video Pantelis Makkas
Choreography Alexander Stavropoulos
Costume design Eva Goulakou
Lighting design Eliza Alexandropoulou
Sound design Kostas Pavlopoulos
Dramaturg Eva Saraga
Musical coaching Melina Paionidou
Assistant to the director Giorgos Braoudakis
Assistant to the set designer Katerina Vlachmpei
Assistant to the costume designer Alexandra-Anastasia Ftouli
Assistant to the lighting designer Lampros Papoulias
Assistant to the video designer Anthi Paraskeva Veloudogianni
Hairstyling Konstantinos Koliousis
Cast (in alphabetical order) Diamantis Adamantidis Servant, Orestis Chalkias Hippolytus, Kora Karvouni Phaedra, Dimitris Papanikolaou Messenger, Maria Skoula Nurse, Elena Topalidou Aphrodite/Artemis, Giannis Tsortekis Theseus
Chorus of women Iro Chalkidi, Dafni Kiourktsoglou, Anastasia-Rafaela Konidi, Ioanna Lekka, Amalia Ninou
Chorus of hunters Diamantis Adiamantidis, Marios Chatziantoni, Nikolas Chatzivasiliadis, Christos Diamantoudis, Konstantinos Georgalis, Nikos Gonidis, Nikos Grigoriadis, Iraklis Kostakis, Marios Kritikopoulos, Alexandros Piechowiak, Melina Polyzoni, Alexandros Tomadakis, Georgios Vassilopoulos
Musicians on stage Jannos Giovanos cello, Giannis Papadopoulos keyboards, Vaggelis Paraskevaidis vibraphone, percussion, Spyros Polychronopoulos electronics
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