National Theatre of Northern Greece – Sotiris Hadzakis
Aristophanes, The Acharnians
As the Peloponnesian War rages for the sixth consecutive year and Athens is slowly dying, Dikaiopolis decides to enlist in the fight for peace. Having negotiated a private truce with Sparta, he persuades the largest Athenian demos (municipality)—the Acharnians: battle-hardened veterans of Marathon—to agree to it, and opens up the market where the starving citizens sell geese, hares and daughters disguised as pigs.
Sotiris Hatzakis and the State Theatre of Northern Greece, in a present-day approach to The Acharnians (425 BC), mock hawkish pro-war politics and its consequences while singing the praises of reconciliation.
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