ζ-η-θ, the Stranger. A return to the sources: a visit to three “Odyssey” rhapsodies – 25-26.7.2025

In the afterglow of two performances that were destined to linger in memory, “NEKYIA”—presented with the Japanese theatre troupe NOH in 2015—and Sophocles’ “Trackers” in 2021, Michail Marmarinos revisits the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus with yet another riveting dramaturgical proposal. Ηere, he orchestrates a return to the sources through a journey to three rhapsodies of the Homeric epic, confirming once more that the endless mystery of oral Storytelling (the cavernous mystery of Theatre itself) can still thrillingly propel us “there, where history is still occurring”. 

A stranger – and an “Οίος”, too – as Homer calls him, meaning “all alone” – a wreck of a man after the total wreck of his ship, crushed by his unequal battle with the sea, cast upon a shore…
(Really, does this image remind us of anything from nowdays? Have we caught sight of anything like this – even just a glimpse – anywhere in the world of current affairs all round us?)
Here, on a foreign shore he did not choose, Fate decreed, he should seek and rediscover his body, his face, his name.

Michail Marmarinos

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