Performances

The National Theatre of Northern Greece, in collaboration with the Museum of Byzantine Culture, is participating in the celebrations for the “European Days of Cultural Heritage 2017” which have been organized by the European Council on the last weekend of September since 1991. The theme selected by the Museums Directorate of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is dedicated to "pol(e)is" (i.e. city-cities).

The touring event presented by the NTNG on Thursday 21 September, at 19.30 in the halls of the Museum of Byzantine Culture (Permanent Exhibition) includes the reading of assorted source-texts of the Byzantine and post-byzantine periods by actors of the NTNG.

Stage instructor: Chrissa Toumanidou

The National Theatre of Northern Greece participates in the celebration of the “European Heritage Days 2017” with a theatrical performance entitled “Active sites: the museum ‘interprets’ the city”, which will be presented on September 22 and 23, 2017 at the Foyer of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

Leading figures of the performance, unfolding in three acts, are the archaeologist, the journalist, the citizen, and sometimes the conqueror during the war. However, the monuments themselves have a leading role as well: an Attic sarcophagus, dated to roman times, from the western cemetery of Thessaloniki, the Herculaneum Woman sculpture from the city’s Ancient Agora, the Derveni krater and papyrus. Through the work of the writer George Ioannou, the poet Maria Kentrou Agathopoulou, the poet Dinos Christianopoulos, and other authors, the museum’s antiquities claim a living presence in the city’s everyday experience as receivers and transmitters of manners, gestures and attitudes. The theatrical text is an original synthesis of archaeological studies, official documents, letters of citizens, articles, short stories and poems, created by Styliana Gkaliniki, archaeologist at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

Stage instructor: Kiki Strataki