Where in Athens can we witness Greek Theatre?
Oct 13th, 2005, 11:50 AM
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Where in Athens can we witness Greek Theatre?
We will be in Athens for a few days next May and would like to see some sort of Greek Theatre. Is there a website telling us where we can see a Greek play or witness Greek music?
Jan 6th, 2006, 06:22 AM
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The Athens Centre organizes a yearly summer Theatre Festival which includes productions of Classical Greek plays in English translation, with students and proffessional actors. The plays are performed in outdoor amphitheatres in Spetses, Athens and other locations.
Contact the Athens Centre at:
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I see the plays are usually in June/July but maybe some are earlier.
Contact the Athens Centre at:
[email protected]
I see the plays are usually in June/July but maybe some are earlier.
Jan 6th, 2006, 06:27 AM
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"topping" is a courtesy some veterans round here provide: if they see a question hasn't been answered, they do it to bring the q back to the top.
There's a list of contact details for Athenian theatres at www.geocities.com/akatsavou/theatres_en.html
Daily updates of what's on is at www.cultureguide.gr/events/catindex.jsp?catA=1
If by "Greek theatre" you mean the handful of surviving plays from 2,500 years ago, I've never succeeded (though to be honest, never looked very hard) in finding anything on in Athens in the spring, though there's a festival at Epidauros in midsummer.
There's a list of contact details for Athenian theatres at www.geocities.com/akatsavou/theatres_en.html
Daily updates of what's on is at www.cultureguide.gr/events/catindex.jsp?catA=1
If by "Greek theatre" you mean the handful of surviving plays from 2,500 years ago, I've never succeeded (though to be honest, never looked very hard) in finding anything on in Athens in the spring, though there's a festival at Epidauros in midsummer.
Jan 6th, 2006, 07:19 AM
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You can see a Greek play in London in February. The King's College Greek Play in 2006 will be: "Ecclesiazusae", or "Assemblywomen", by Aristophanes. The website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/play says that the King's College Greek Play has been an annual and uninterrupted tradition since 1953, and that the KCL Greek play is the only production in the country to be performed every year in the original Greek
The website provides an introduction to the King's College Greek Play tradition. Belief in the universal appeal of drama and its ability to break through language barriers have led student directors, past and present, to bring to the stage Greek playwrights from Aeschylus to Aristophanes. As well as providing an opportunity for those involved to immerse themselves in the Greek dramatic tradition, these plays offer the audience immediate access to the original theatrical experience. Greek plays are both drama and poetry, and only a production in Greek can do their dual nature justice, but subtitles in English will be provided.
The site http://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/play/booking.html
gives booking Information. The next production will be staged from Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th of February 2006 at The Greenwood Theatre, 55 Weston Street, London Bridge, London SE1 3RA, and that is in the east end of Guys Hospital campus, nearest tube London Bridge.
Performances are due on Wednesday and Friday 8 and 10 February at 3pm and 7.30, and for Thursday 9 February at 730. Entry is 8 pounds, and 5 pounds for concessions, such as those to us pensioners. You can buy your tickets at the door or from the Greek Play Box Office http://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/play/bookingform.doc, 0040 20 7848 2399
The site http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/LFGD/ gives detail for the University of London Festival of Greek Drama, 7 February to 11 March 2005, but the site http://ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/events.html implies that University College London has no such festival in 2006. Please try 2007 later.
You might look elsewhere, too. Google says that the Oxford Playhouse gave Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis and The Birds, all in Greek, in 2002 and 2004, and that Aberdeen gives Greek plays. The secretary of the department of Greek in each university can brief you.
Ben Haines, London
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The website provides an introduction to the King's College Greek Play tradition. Belief in the universal appeal of drama and its ability to break through language barriers have led student directors, past and present, to bring to the stage Greek playwrights from Aeschylus to Aristophanes. As well as providing an opportunity for those involved to immerse themselves in the Greek dramatic tradition, these plays offer the audience immediate access to the original theatrical experience. Greek plays are both drama and poetry, and only a production in Greek can do their dual nature justice, but subtitles in English will be provided.
The site http://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/play/booking.html
gives booking Information. The next production will be staged from Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th of February 2006 at The Greenwood Theatre, 55 Weston Street, London Bridge, London SE1 3RA, and that is in the east end of Guys Hospital campus, nearest tube London Bridge.
Performances are due on Wednesday and Friday 8 and 10 February at 3pm and 7.30, and for Thursday 9 February at 730. Entry is 8 pounds, and 5 pounds for concessions, such as those to us pensioners. You can buy your tickets at the door or from the Greek Play Box Office http://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/play/bookingform.doc, 0040 20 7848 2399
The site http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/LFGD/ gives detail for the University of London Festival of Greek Drama, 7 February to 11 March 2005, but the site http://ucl.ac.uk/GrandLat/events.html implies that University College London has no such festival in 2006. Please try 2007 later.
You might look elsewhere, too. Google says that the Oxford Playhouse gave Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis and The Birds, all in Greek, in 2002 and 2004, and that Aberdeen gives Greek plays. The secretary of the department of Greek in each university can brief you.
Ben Haines, London
[email protected]
