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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-07-26
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[01] 'Lysistrata' takes a trip ... on the Athens metro
[01] 'Lysistrata' takes a trip ... on the Athens metro
Another surprise thespian interlude awaits commuters alighting
in Syntagma metro station at noon on Thursday, when the cast of the
National Theatre appearing in Aristophanes' timeless ancient comedy
"Lysistrata" have organised a "taster" version of the production that
will go on at ancient theatre of Epidaurus on August 5-6.
The classic ancient Athenian comedy directed by Michail Marmarinos is the
third National Theatre production in the Athens and Epidaurus Festival
this summer. The play is based on a new translation of the ancient Greek
by Dimitris Dimitriadis, with Lena Kitsopoulou playing the lead role.
Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, the play is a comic
account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian
War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual
privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to
negotiate peace. It was produced just two years after Athens' catastrophic
defeat in the Sicilian Expedition and is widely seen as having serious
rather than comic intent, as a last appeal for an elusive peace.
The production will also tour other theatres in Greece during August,
with performances scheduled on the island of Andros on August 12, the
Ancient Theatre of Philippi in Kavala on August 20, the Ancient Theatre
of Dion in Katerini on August 23, in Ancient Olympia on August 28, the
Roman Odeon in Patras on August 30-31, the Papagou Garden Theatre on
September 4, Theatro Dasous in Thessaloniki on September 9, Old Oil Mill
in Elefsina on September 12, Theatre of the Rocks in Athens on September
16, Dimitris Kintis Park Theatre in Ilioupolis, Athens on September 19,
Park Theatre of Nea Smyrni on September 21 and the Odeon of Herodes
Atticus beneath the Acropolis on September 24.
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