The first efforts for stage productions of ancient Greek drama, and tragedy mainly, begin during the Age of Enlightenment, when Greece is not an independent nation yet. They are connected with the efforts of forming a national consciousness and return to the ancestral heritage (Branchfeld 1962: 341-349). With the creation of an independent Greek nation in 1830, ancient dramas are produced more frequent, always associated with linguistic and ideological demands of the times. Continue Reading
Theodore
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Ancient Greek Drama on Modern Greek Stage. Theatrical Tradition and Cultural Memory
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Time in the Theatre Memory of a timeless present on stage, Athens 23-25 May 2018
H[/ropcap]ow is time depicted in Theatre? And how is it inscribed as a memory on the spectator’s consciousness when the fleeing unique moment of the theatre performance ceases to be, and the “once and only one time”of the stage representation becomes part of the spectator’s deposit of similar experiences? Continue Reading
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Memories of heroines in memories of spectators: mythic, dramatic and theatrical time from the ancient drama to the modern greek theatre
If by “performance” we mean the “poetics of remembrance”, since it is there that the playwright’s and the actor’s memory as well as the spectators’ memory and social memory creatively meet, then theatre can be called the “art of memory”. Continue Reading
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From the Pictorial Symbols of the Theatre to the Virtual Symbolisation of the Real
The problem of the existence or not of a reality, which outside the dimension of the intelligent subject, that is, the relationship of the subjectivity of conscience and the objectivity of the world, comprises an issue lending itself to a multiplicity of approaches and dimensions such as ontology, gnosology, psychology and metaphysics, neurophysiology and sociology. Continue Reading
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Twentieth century Greek Theatre – Contribution to the History of Modern Greek Theatre
Theatre is a wider form of cultural creation and demands a particular way of treatment as it equally combines both the dramatic text with the theatrical performance and the artistic expression with the social occasion. The continuously increasing interest in 20th century Greek theatre subjects and themes, has produced remarkable results. Continue Reading
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“The Lady from the Sea”: The utopia of a reality
1. The highlighting of the function of the hidden laws that apply to the social co-existence of the individuals, as well as the commitments concerning individual freedom posed by the bourgeois society, are some of the commonest topics in Ibsen’s works that, every time, are approached from a different angle. Continue Reading
