National Theatre of Greece
Aristophanes, The Frogs
“Aristophanes was first”: The Frogs (405 BC), in which the poet turns his unbridled imagination to mercilessly ridiculing the democratic and modern-minded Euripides the day after his death, won Aristophanes “the wreath wrought from the foliage of the sacred olive that grows upon the Acropolis”. But of what possible interest could Dionysus’ descent to Hades in search of the worthy Euripides, his rowing across Lake Acheron to the riveting accompaniment of a frogs’ chorus and the dramatic contest between Aeschylus and Euripides in Pluto’s palace be to audiences today? Which is precisely what Yannis Houvardas and the Greek National Theatre asked Dimitris Lignades when they invited him to direct The Frogs. We have every reason to expect a daring response: a dynamic company – with the director and Konstantinos Markoulakis as ‘rival poets’ – takes on the Underworld. [D.K.]
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Duration 1 hour and 40 minutes with no inverval.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
- 11/07/2008 at 21:00
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