Athens Epidaurus Festival 2021 Programme

THEATRE
1821 BICENTENNIAL
PREMIERE
26 – 29 JUL 21:00
PEIRAIOS 260
HALL E
Anestis Azas’ new play, part of the 1821 Bicentennial thematic cycle, is
set in modern-day Greece and can be classified as part-documentary,
part-fiction, though it boasts a fictional plot. Featuring a mixed couple,
a Greek man and a Turkish woman, who decide to form their own nation
state using their home and private business as headquarters, this
performance theatrically renegotiates tensions that have been active
from the Greek Revolution to this day. Through a number of hilarious
situations, the heroes are confronted with the contradictions of contemporary
Greek society, the problematics of national identity, and the
utopian reality of a future, global, digital nation, taking us, the audience,
along for the ride.
ANESTIS AZAS
The Republic of Baklava
TICKETS – VIP 15€/ ZONE A 10€/ STUDENTS/65+/ ARTIST UNIONS 8€/
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES/UNEMPLOYED/ART SCHOOL STUDENTS 5€
Conceived
and directed by
Anestis Azas
Text
Gerasimos Bekas
and the group
Set design
Eleni Stroulia
Costume design
Vassilia Rozana
Lighting design
Eliza Alexandropoulou
Sound design – Music
Panagiotis Manouilidis
Video
Dimitris Zachos
Assistant to the director
Michalis Pitidis
Assistant to the set designer
Zaira Falirea
Production manager
Kostis Panagiotopoulos
Cast
Katerina Mavrogeorgi
Cem Yigit Üzümoglu
George Katsis
Gary Salomon
Co-financed by Greece
and the European Union
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