Cyprus Ancient Drama Platform

Ancient Drama Festival 2016
Three fresh viewpoints on ancient drama texts by three Cypriot artists.

NARcissus: hubris/ lament
NEKTARIOS RODOSTHENOUS

Α study on Greek lament for three female voices and a narrator/guitarist. The re-contextualised lament of the singers is filtered through Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus. In his myth, the unreturned love of the Echo is the result of Narcissus’ mortal pride/hubris which led, unavoidably, to his death.

Concept - direction - composition: Nektarios Rodosthenous
Performers: Katerina Andreou, Ellie Aloneftou, Julia Petrou Michaelides, Nektarios Rodosthenous

Prometheus, scene 1
STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS

The gift of Prometheus places mankind at the epicentre of the tragic event. In man's attempt to delimit the new space that is assigned to him, light is transformed from matter to be used into a new condition of existence.

Concept - direction - set design: Stephanos Droussiotis
Performed by: Prokopis Agathokleous
Dramaturge: Simos Zenios
Sound composition: Giwrgos Poulios
Lighting design: Evina Vassilopoulou
Assistant director: Evita Ioannou

Searching for Ajax
IPOGA & SINERGIO

An open rehearsal-performance, an anthology of the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and his play Ajax, focusing on Ajax’s last monologue and two of the play’s stasima. A study on the construction and deconstruction of a tragedy, which, deliberately by the playwright, abolishes the unity of space and time.

Director: Stelios Andronikou
With: Demetris Spyrou, Stelios Andronikou, Stelios Kyprianou