Athens festival

Athens festival 2006 lycabettus theatre
Modern outdoor theatre on Lycabettus hill with a view over the whole of Athens, and the traditional venue for alternative events aimed at a younger audience.

july
MONDAY 5
TUESDAY 6
Drosoulites
Legends and laments by Nikos Gatsos
Music: Christodoulos Halaris
Directed by: Dimitris Sotiriou
Lighting design: Eleftheria Deko
Visual design and processing: Nikos Makris, Maria Athanasopoulou, Lila Sotiriou.
Featuring the “Lepta Organa” ensemble, conducted by the composer.
Sung by Dimitra Galani.
An audio-visual happening from the sinequanon dance company, based on Drosoulites, a work by Nikos Gatsos and Christodoulos Halaris.

THE GREEK MUSIC SCENE TODAY
WEDNESDAY 14: Angelakas, Episkeptes, Dinos Sadikis
THURSDAY 15: Pavlidis, Rodes, Micro
FRIDAY 16: Raining Pleasure
SATURDAY 17: Kitrina Podilata, Despina Olympiou, Adriana Babali, Manos Pyrovolakis
FRIDAY 23: Thanasis Papakonstantinou
FRIDAY 30: Diafana Krina
Six days packed with a range of sounds and styles during which young Greek singers, songwriters and groups will guide us through the contemporary Greek music scene.

TUESDAY 20
WEDNESDAY 21
THURSDAY 22
LA FURA DELS BAUS
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
La Fura dels Baus, the pioneering street theatre and spectacle company, has developed its own, distinct performance idiom (“furero”) in a theatre that engages the senses and features creative audience participation.
The performance includes video, electronic music, and sounds natural and otherwise.

Athens festival 2006 parallel events at other venues
The Athens Festival will this year be utilizing a number of different venues around the city, selected to match the style and requirements of individual events.
athens cοncert hall

TUESDAY 6 JUNE
WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE
SASHA WALTZ & GUESTS
Körper (2000)
Directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz
Set design: Thomas Schenk, Heike Schuppelius, Sasha Waltz
Lighting: Valentin Gallé, Martin Hauk
Music: Hans Peter Kuhn
Costumes: Bernd Skodzig
The famous Berlin choreographer, Sasha Waltz, presents the first part of her somatic trilogy in a co-production with the Schaubühne.

WEDNESDAY 12 JULY
THURSDAY 13 JULY
Les Paladins
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Co-produced by the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) and the Barbican Centre (London)
Directed by: José Montalvo & Dominique Hervieu
Set concept & video: José Montalvo
Costumes: Dominique Hervieu, Julie Scobeltzine, Emilie Kindt – Larsen
Lighting: Philippe Berthomé
The Les Arts Florissants orchestra and choir are conducted by William Christie.
Featuring the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et Val-de-Marne, and the Montalvo-Hervieu company.
The amazing Paladins have already bewitched audiences of all ages in France, London and Shanghai.
The work is based on Duplat de Monticourt’s libretto, which was inspired by La Fontaine. A comic-ballet, the work will carry you away with its complex plot, set in Mediaeval Venice, and with its music.

Events for children
june
Xenia Kalogeropoulou’s Children’s Stage are presenting two productions for children as part of the Athens Festival, both contemporary versions of classic fairytales.

SATURDAY 10
SUNDAY 11
MONDAY 12
TUESDAY 13
KISMET THEATRE
The snow queen
This spectacular, poetic version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale comes to us from Bari, Italy, and that city’s famous Kismet Theatre company. Scripted and directed by Teresa Ludovico, the production was staged to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Danish writer.
(Venue: REX – KOTOPOULI)

SATURDAY 17
SUNDAY 18
MONDAY 19
TUESDAY 20
MIKRI PORTA
Sleeping Beauty
This ‘alternative’ reading of “Sleeping Beauty” is being prepared by Xenia Kalogeropoulou and Thomas Moschopoulos, and brings together different versions of the fairytale by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Giambattista Basile. It will be directed by Thomas Moschopoulos.
( Venue: PORTA THEATRE)

OTHER EVENTS
SATURDAY 19th of JULY until WEDNESDAY 23rd of July and
SATURDAY 26th of JULY until WEDNESDAY 30th of July
THEATRE DU SOLEIL
The Last Caravanserai (Odysseys)
Part one “The cruel river”, Part two “Origins and Destinies”
Directed by Ariane Mnouchkine
(Venue: FALIRO PAVILLION)

9 ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΙ THEATRE
Other Side
by Dejan Dukovski
Directed by: 9 kai kati theatre
Translation: Gaga Rossitch
Dejan Dukovski was born in Sopia in 1969. He has written plays and screenplays for the cinema and the television. Other Side is essentially the third part of a trilogy (The Balkans are not dead – Powder keg) dealing with the Balkans in the wake of war and with the fate of man.
(Venue: SCHOLEION: Peiraios 52 & Venizelou, Neo Faliro)

DOMATIOU THEATRE
Electra, Sophocles
Translation: Giorgos Heimonas
Directed by: Antzela Brouskou
Having staged Euripides’ Medea (2000), the Domatiou Theatre is set to take a fresh and original look at Sophocles’ Electra.
(Venue: SCHOLEION: Peiraios 52 & Venizelou, Neo Faliro)
WORLD SOUNDS
Tuesday 6 June: MAWASH (Afghanistan)
Wednesday 7 June: KEYVAN CHEMIRANI: “The rhythm of the word”
(Iran, S. India, Mali)
Thursday 8 June: QAWWALI FLAMENCO (Pakistan, Spain)
(Venue: SCHOLEION: Peiraios 52 & Venizelou, Neo Faliro)

HOROS THEATRE COMPANY
Golfo
Direction / movement : Simos Kakalas
Stage sets - costumes - masks: Giannis Katranitsas
Music: Georgios–Bandoek Apostolakis
Video Art: Christos Kalos
The Horos Theatre Company stages Golfo, the well-known dramatic romance in a production that stands out for its use of video, masks, puppet theatre, and a manga aesthetic, transferred from the world of Japanese comics to the visual and kinesiological elements of the performance.
(Venue : SCHOLEION: Peiraios 52 & Venizelou, Neo Faliro)
ENDA WALSH
The Small things
Translation: Christina Babou-Pangoureli
Directed by: Viky Georgiadou
Set design-costumes: Magiou Trikerioti
Lighting design: Melina Mascha
Music: Kostas Andreou
Enda Walsh is part of the long Irish story-telling tradition. Here, she attempts to transfer to the stage the struggles of the everyday man or woman in search of the place in a rapidly changing world.
(Venue : SCHOLEION: Peiraios 52 & Venizelou, Neo Faliro)
GREEK CONTEMPORARY DANCE
• Konstantinos Rigos
• Fotis Nikolaou, X-it Dance-theatre Company
• Marilia Chrysospathi, Elatirio Contemporary Dance Company

Venues: To be announced

• Exhibitions
(“Karolos Koun”, in associate with the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation)

• Work in progress
The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
(directed by Roula Pateraki)
Venue: KOTOPOULI - REX

• Work in progress
Henry IV, Luigi Pirandello
(Greek National Theatre, directed by Dimitris Mavrikios)
Venue: KOTOPOULI - REX