Theatre History | Theodore Grammatas

Cultural Consciousness and Theatrical Creation in Postwar Modern Greek Theatre: The “Hellenism Syndrom” phase

The search for cultural identity is an ever-lasting demand for the Greek dramatology.

During the post-war years the presence of this search is intensive, and the variety of its forms and versions depends each time on the specific historical and social conditions.

On the basis of this quest for theatrical and, furthermore, cultural consciousness, and on condition that the theatre consists of the production of an objective reality on stage, we proceed to the analysis of our subject.

May 19, 2021 • Modern Greek Theatre, Theatre History • Views: 48

European Program Horizon 2020

Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformations in the Context of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Proposal Title : Values Across Space and Time

Proposal acronym: VAST

December 5, 2020 • Ancient Drama, News • Views: 419

Codes Communicatifs de la Commedia dell Arte et leur Application au Theatre Jeunes Spectateurs

La Commedia dell’Arte, forme théâtrale de provenance populaire, dispose des traits distinctifs propres à lui, de sorte qu’ elle peut être approchée et perçue par lui. Le but de notre communication porte à préciser les codes communicatifs dont elle se sert, et par la suite à circonscrire leur fonctionnalité chez les spectaters aux quels elle s’adresse. A l’ aide de ces constatations, nous envisageons d’ explorer, dans la suite leur application potentielle dans un genre spécifique du théâtre, celui qui s’ adresse aux jeunes publics.

July 12, 2020 • Global Theatre, Theatre History, Theory of Theatre • Views: 605

New tragic form, old tragic sense in Contemporary World Theater

When Phrynichus first wrote tragedy by composing The Miletus Conquest, drawing on recent for his age historical events, he showed the way that the new for this period form of literature and art could follow (dramatic text and stage presentation). Continue Reading

January 7, 2020 • Global Theatre • Views: 933

Modern Greek Drama and Theatre in the Crisis Period Mnemonic Flashback of the Past as a Defence Mechanism in the Present

At the beginning of the 21^st century, Greece has been caught in the vortex of a great economic, social, cultural and political turbulence, which has upturned its smooth European course and has brought about radical changes in the attitude, ideology and economic situation of the Greek citizens. After the international financial crisis between the years 2007-09 and since 2010, Greece has been involved in an unprecedented vortex of economic asphyxiation, great Depression and fiscal austerity, which was and is still being experienced by the Greeks as a multi-level and polynomial crisis (Helliwell, Layard& Sachs 2013). Continue Reading

October 28, 2019 • Modern Greek Theatre, Theatre History • Views: 1109

Du sacre au profane et vice versa? L’ aventure et l’ avenir du mythe theatral

La tragédie grecque ancienne représentant l’ écho des expériences religieuses et existentielles de l’ homme primitif, dramatisées par des notions telles que “ύβρις” et “νέμεσις”, “ειμαρμένη” et “άτη”, se sert du mythe comme noyau thématique et moyen expressif, ce dont elle a besoin. Continue Reading

May 13, 2019 • Global Theatre, Theory of Theatre • Views: 1454