The aim of our study is to trace the presence of Sophocles in Modern Greek Theatre, from its first steps during the Enlightenment period up to the present day. Continue Reading
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Sophocles Road to Contemporary Greek Theatre
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The Actor’s Art and the Estrangement in our Age
Speaking of Acting today most of us agree, that actors, like other artists, are practicing the specifics of an art form, not a slavish adherence to nature or so-called real life. Heeding Hamlet’s advice to the players, they hold the mirror up to nature and perfect the mirror image, the representation of nature. Continue Reading
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From the Years of Utopia to the Years of Dystopia
The problem with periodization, in any field, is to decide on what basis to establish the boundaries between one period and the next. There are no rules. Different nations and cultures have different models of periodization because they experience history and understand culture in a different way. Continue Reading
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Dramatisation as School Teaching Method to approach classical texts
Task of the educator, regardless of his rank in the educational hierarchy, is to be an active mediator in the full contact of the student with the aspired knowledge, provided by him. Continue Reading
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Absent presence of illusion and present absence of the picture 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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Catharsis for the Bourgeois
In a commentary on Ethika Nikomacheia by Aristotle, the critic, Andreas Dalezios, points out «… in vain would one look for a declaration of moral commands, addressed to young people, slaves or low-class workers.» Continue Reading
