In a village of the Kalavryta district, near the Monastery of Agia Lavra, on the cusp of the 1821 Greek Revolution, two youths, Drosos and Esmé, take an oath of love. Their ancestry undermines their oath: Drosos is Greek and Esmé is Turkish. Their love, faced with strong resistance from their families, will be put […]
The Fainting performance consists of two famous one-act comedies by Russian playwright Chekhov, the Marriage Proposal and the Bear. Written in 1888-1889, the plays have been perfomed to theatrical stages scenes many times worldwide. But they keep their comic scourge unabated, since they are based on physical humor - as the title of our show […]
The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama raises the curtain on the 2021’sedition after last year’s cancellation due to the covid pandemic and is ready to offer an exciting line-up of performances to the audience that has been attending faithfully in recent years; a July full of unique theatrical moments! The pandemic may have […]
Dream Theatre Productions presents a site-specific performance adapted from Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield’s play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). The play ingeniously joins together some of the British playwright’s greatest works, often daring to even mock some of his gravest tragedies. Envisioned with a number of alternating roles and characters, […]
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (458 BCE), THOC’s first ever staged production in 1971, is revived this summer as part of the celebrations marking the Organisation’s 50th anniversary. The tragedy, directed by Lea Maleni, is the first drama of the Oresteia, Aeschylus’ only extant trilogy. Deeply political at its core, Agamemnon limns the traces inscribed upon the fate […]
