The Performance
it is about the tour of a Greek theatre production with the staging of the classical tragedy “BACCHAE”(VAKHES) of Euripides from the Theatre Scheme of Leonidas Loizides in the version of the dean and professor of the University of Athens, Marika Thomadaki and in direction of the pioneer and innovating director Leonidas Loizides, who has a 20-year active career in the theatre stardom, always serving the quality theatre, and with artistic successes, the destiny of which had been to travel abroad and make a tour in Europe and America, as we are ambitious for our new oncoming production too. The play will be presented in the Greek language with English hyper-titles. Its ingenuity lies in the fact that it is performed only by a female cast, that will totally consist of eight women, selected professional actresses, out of the best Greek actresses. It is about a pioneer idea of Leonidas Loizides that aims at the promotion of the role and the power of the woman, in the past as well as in the present time and the future.
We also point out that in this attempt of ours we have the support of the Greek state and the honour, this theatrical production to be under the auspices of the Greek ministries of Foreign affairs, Tourist Development, Transportation and Communications, the Organization for the Promotion of the Greek Culture of the Ministry of Culture, as well as ΠΟΔΑ (Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens) and UNESCO.
Our Communication Sponsors are: ERT WORLD, ΕΘΕΛ, «Apogevmatini”, “City Press”, “Athens Voice”, “Athens 984, GoCulture.
All the above factors render the as above performance perfect from the artistic point of view, at a level that it can satisfy even the most demanding audience.
The theatre company consists of 8 members and along with the director, the technician (operator of lights and sound) and the production organizer, constitute the eleven-member team that will travel for the materialization of this inspired project.
Our ulterior objective is the spreading of the Greek culture and theatre as well as the teaching of the classical and always timely, for each society, tragedy of one of our greatest tragic poets, to Greeks of the same descent that live abroad and to foreigners. Furthermore, an aim of our specific attempt is to find people and states which are friendly to Greece and our culture, aiming at their promotion and the beginning of a professional and artistic opening of the Greek theatre.
The specific production will be ready to spread its wings beyond the Greek horizons in June of 2008 and we hope that its journey will be far and long from the time point of view, within the bounds of possibility. Already, several stops in countries of Europe, America and Australia have been included in our schedule, while we aim at the inclusion of other cultural stops in other countries of these continents as well as in countries of Africa and Asia too! Furthermore, expect for the performances that will take place abroad, the said theatre production will tour in Greece too, for a limited number of performances in selected places, hosted by local entities.
