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
Theatre History
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Ancient Greek Drama on Modern Greek Stage. Theatrical Tradition and Cultural Memory
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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
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Aristophanes through Lysistrata: the ancient greek comedy on the modern greek stage
Notwithstanding the unquestionable popularity of the hybrid and liminal Plutus for the survival and revival of Aristophanes in Greece and throughout the world,[1] it was another Aristophanic comedy that became associated with the most important and the most profound social, aesthetic and ideological turning points in the reception of Aristophanes by the modern Greek scene up to the present day. Continue Reading
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Ancient drama at the crossroads of civilizations
Greek directors walk side by side with their foreign colleagues as they express the major, global trends of performance and reoriented the perspectives about ancient drama. Continue Reading
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Dionysus Course: The Past and the Future of Theatrical Myth
The contact of the contemporary audience with the ancient drama often raises questions and concerns about the understanding and interpretation of its existence (as performance) in the postmodern era conditions, causing reasonable doubts about the possibility of its survival in future millennium. Continue Reading
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The birth and the lasting newness of ancient greek tragedy
In our effort to understand tragedy as a kind of cultural creation in such range, we should go back to the initial time of its conception, creation and formatting stage as entity during the 5th century in Athens. In our approach, we find that the historical reality, which means the objective events that some people might have heard through mythological stories or their literary versions that once occurred in the distant past, converted in the haze of history into legend and then molded through the passage of time in myth (Trojan war, argonautica). Continue Reading
