THE.AM.A. (Theatre for People with Disabilities)
The Persians
by Aeschylus
... Vanquishing anything ‘alien’
and fighting the prejudice within ourselves...
THE.AM.A. (Theatre for People with Disabilities), the only professional theatre company in Greece that consists of actors with disabilities at its core and a member of the Artists with Disabilities Movement, presents Aeschylus’ oldest surviving drama (472 BC), The Persians, directed by Vassilis Oikonomou. Leading the Chorus, the performer of our popular oral tradition, the folk singer Yiota Vei. The Persians is underpinned by the tendency for dramatic poetry to move away from its initial oral form towards what is conventionally known as ‘visual’ poetry. A vague sense of disquiet in channelled on stage into a real event as defeat at the battle of Salamis leaves Persia grieving. By describing the culmination of this grief in ‘barbarous’ Persia, Aeschylus used his writing to commit the earliest known anti-war act. Respect for the Other is the first step towards their acceptance on equal terms...
With interpretation into Greek Sign Language
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National Theater of Greece (Ziller Building)
- 13/07 until 14/07/2016 at 21:00
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