Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021 Programme

THEATRE
PREMIERE
21 – 24 JUN 22:30
25 JUN 23:00
PEIRAIOS 260
GARDEN
A defeated antihero plays backgammon. Sophocles’ Ajax, an iconic personification
of the frustrated male, is reimagined in an outdoors snack bar,
the decadent reflection of a country stuck in the past, while everything
else around it has collapsed. A stellar cast of performers jointly compose
a chorus about a transforming world and its ever-changing values. A play
dedicated to the prototypical outsider, the socially isolated Ajax, who is
doomed to extinction and faced with madness.
SIMOS KAKALAS
Ajax
by Sophocles
TICKETS – REGULAR 10€/PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 5€/UNEMPLOYED 5€
Translated by
Nikos A. Panagiotopoulos
Directed by
Simos Kakalas
Set design
Giannis Katranitsas
Costume design
Claire Bracewell
Masks
Martha Foka
Lighting design
Panagiotis Lampis
Chorus coaching
Konstantinos Ntellas
Vocal coaching
Konstantinos Thomaidis
Assistant to the director
Wichi
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Anthi Efstratiadou
Simos Kakalas
Kimonas Kouris
Konstantinos Moraitis
Giorgos Papageorgiou
Michalis Syriopoulos
Executive producers
POLYPLANITY Productions /
Yolanda Markopoulou – Vicky Strataki
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