THEATRE OF THE SOCIETY OF MACEDONIAN STUDIES
Sunday, December 16th 2007
CONFERENCE
Ancient Drama Today: Approaches and prospects
- Opening by Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Northern Greece
- 10.30 LYSISTRATA with Maia Morgenstern. Maia Morgenstern presents excerpts from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata based on an adaptation by Michalis Cacoyiannis
- 11.00 Ancient Drama: Ancient or Drama? by Stathis Livathinos, director
- 11.30 The cycle of agriculture and ancient drama in the Mediterranean, by Sotiris Hatzakis, director
- 12.00 Homeric Women in Ancient Drama, by Dimitris Maronitis, Professor Emeritus of the School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- 12.30 Aspects of Ancient Drama: Thematic Projections – Approaches in Direction, by Dimitra Mitta, Philologist – Professor at the School of Drama of the NTNG
- 13.00 Discussion: The importance of the intra-cultural approach to Ancient Drama, With Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Dimitris Maronitis, Sotiris Hatzakis, Stathis Livathinos and Dimitra Mitta.
- Conclusions
PERFORMANCE
Voices of the Balkans Excerpts from ancient drama by companies from South-Eastern Europe, accompanied by chorus performances of the NTNG with live music.
Contributors:
Direction: Korina Charitou
Music - Orchestration: Kostas Vomvolos
Production: Filothei Eleftheriadou
Cast (in alphabetical order):
Iosifescu Mihaela Cerasela, Zeynep Yasa Cimenser, Igor Djordjevic, Yasjan Lmi, Oliver Mitkovski, Maia Morgenstern, Ivana Mrvaljevic, Neoklis Neokleous, Leoveanu Robert Sorin, Maria Stancheva, Stella Firogeni.
Singers: Katerina Yamali, Roula Manousanou, Chrysa Toumanidou.
Musicians: Yannis Vlahos (violin), Kostas Vomvolos (piano), Kostas Theodorou (percussion – upright bass), Thanos Sideris (clarinet).
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