grape
Greek Agora of Performance
For the first time in its history, the Athens Epidaurus Festival launches grape – Greek Agora of Performance, a showcase promoting the Greek Performing Arts. This initiative aims to establish a platform for Greek artists to communicate with the international Theatre and Dance scene.
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grape gives the opportunity to artists working in Theatre and Dance to present their works to representatives and artistic directors of international festivals and cultural institutions abroad, as well as to the general public of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, in two condensed five-day sessions of Greek creation. Sending Greek artists abroad is one of the main objectives of the Festival. Τhe conception for the initiative to “export” Greek works had already been announced since 2020.
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For this name we were inspired by Dionysus, god of Vine and Theatre, the exhilarating effect of Art, Greek summer and grapes, a fruit that is shared sometimes as fruit, sometimes as wine and has been associated with our passionate and heated conversations following the end of Festival performances.
grape presents 14 new works in two periods:
3 – 8 July and 18 – 22 July
The programme is complemented by two discussions focusing on the connection between contemporary European theatre and Ancient Drama, featuring Greek theatre artists and researchers and held at Goethe-Institut Athen, as well as networking events aimed specifically at participating artists and representatives of the international theatre and dance scene.
The works presented, productions that will premiere at the Festival, focus on contemporary dramaturgical explorations, as well as on themes that are of international artistic concern, and have been designed with flexibility so that they can travel. They address issues that are at the centre of international attention at the moment, such as the LGBTQI+ community, women, the environment and human rights.
Mastercard, the exclusive sponsor of grape, will award an audience prize to the performance with the highest rating based on voting, which will be taking place after each performance.
The accommodation of foreign representatives has been entrusted to Academias Hotel, Autograph Collection, as the exclusive hospitality sponsor of grape.
Performances
3 – 8 July
THEATRE
PANTELIS DENTAKIS
A Rose is A Rose
by Katerina Louvari Fasoi
30 June – 3 July
PEIRAIOS 260 Ε
DANCE
ANDRONIKI MARATHAKI & CLOUDSDONTHAVESHAPE
painfully painless
1 – 3 July
PEIRAIOS 260 B
THEATRE
DIMITRIS BAMPILIS – APARÄMILLON
Catastrophe
1 – 4 July
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – NIKOS KOURKOULOS STAGE
DANCE
ROOTLESSROOT
Silence
3 & 4 July
PEIRAIOS 260 D
THEATRE
ANESTIS AZAS
The Republic of Baklava
6 – 8 July
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – NIKOS KOURKOULOS STAGE
THEATRE
ELLI PAPAKONSTANTINOU
The Bacchae
After Euripides
4 – 6 July
PEIRAIOS 260 Η
DANCE
DIMITRIS MYTILINAIOS
Repair
8 – 10 July
PEIRAIOS 260 B
THEATRE
THANASIS ZERITIS – HARRY KREMMYDAS / 4FRONTAL
Spyridoules by Nefeli Maistrali
8 – 11 July
PEIRAIOS 260 E
18 – 22 July
THEATRE
YORGOS VALAIS
Run – A Stage Essay About the Lack of Time
17 – 20 July
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – NIKOS KOURKOULOS STAGE
THEATRE
ZOE CHATZIANTONIOU
Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
Based on the work by Ingeborg Bachmann
17 – 20 July
PEIRAIOS 260 Ε
THEATRE
GIANNIS SKOURLETIS – BIJOUX DE KANT
Songs of the Greek People
Drag oratorio
17 – 20 July
PEIRAIOS 260 Β
THEATRE
MARIO BANUSHI
Taverna Miresia
Mario Bella Anastasia
18 – 20 July
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – ELENI PAPADAKI STAGE
DANCE
LENIO KAKLEA
Αγρίμι/ Fauve
19 & 20 July
PEIRAIOS 260 Β
INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION
THEATRE
PANTELIS FLATSOUSIS
Thebes: A Global Civil War
Inspired by Aeschylus’ “Seven Against Thebes”
21 & 22 July
LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS
CONTEMPORARY ANCIENTS CYCLE