MEETING OF THE THEATRES OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
Sunday, December 16th 2007
Theatre of the Society of Macedonian Studies
CONFERENCE
Ancient Drama Today: approaches and prospects
PERFORMANCE
Voices of the Balkans
Following the successful organization of the 1st Theatre Festival of South-Eastern Europe entitled “Aspects on Ancient Drama”, which took place in Thessaloniki in the summer of 2007, bringing on stage eight contemporary aspects of ancient drama, the National Theatre of Northern Greece continues its efforts for an essential creative collaboration between the theatres of North-Eastern Europe.
With its global reach and humane character, ancient drama offers a wide field for research, creative expression and fertile dialogue on political, social and existential topics for the countries of North-Eastern Europe which have recently been -- and are still being -- tried. With this in mind, the National Theatre of Northern Greece is organizing the 2nd Meeting of the Theatres of South-Eastern Europe, on December 15th and 16th 2007.
The meeting will be attended by the artistic directors and representatives of the following theatres:
National Theatre of Tirana, Albania National Theatre of Plovdiv, Bulgaria National Theatre “Ivan Vazof” of Sophia, Bulgaria National Theatre of Skopje, FYROM Cyprus Theatre Organization National Theatre of Montenegro at Podgorica Royal Theatre “Zetski dom” at Cetinje, Montenegro National Theatre of Bucharest, Romania National Theatre of Craiova “Marin Sorescu”, Romania National Theatre of Belgrade, Serbia General Board of National Theatres of Turkey
Aiming to create the right circumstances for artists and theatre theoreticians, for an essential and broader perusal, the NTNG is holding within the framework of the 2nd Meeting of the Theatres of South-Eastern Europe, the following events at the Theatre of Macedonian Studies:
Sunday, 16 December, at 10:00 - Ancient drama today: approaches and prospects. A conference focusing on ancient drama, with Dimitris Maronitis, Sotiris Hatzakis, Stathis Livathinos and Dimitra Mitta on the panel. This is followed at 21:30 by the performance Voices of the Balkans presenting short excerpts from ancient drama by the companies participating in the discussion, and accompanied by chorus performances of the NTNG with live music. Admission to both events is free.
Promotional Sponsors : ERT S.A., ΕΤ3.
The 2nd Meeting of the Theatres of South-Eastern Europe is being held with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture in the framework of the European Program “CULTURE”- CULTURAL EGNATIΑ