Aristophanes Now - The duty of comedy

5 & 6 July 2013, 21:30
Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus

The case
Athens: a city at war, then as now. The Peloponnesian war then, an economic war now, but the pain is the same.
With the entire Greek world teetering on the verge of collapse, it was comedy that stepped up to chart the heartbeat of its fall, leaving these eleven surviving comedies by Aristophanes to bear witness to the Greek ‘curse’.
An amalgamation of the comic poet’s transgressive verses shouted out to the heavens, Aristophanes Now uses music to sing a hymn in praise of the city, democracy, the country that gave us the great poets of old, and to deal corruption a smarting slap in the face. It does so with an innocent half-smile on its lips, as though the revellers have been struck dumb by the possibility of a miracle...

Lyrics
Κ.X. Myris
Lina Nikolakopoulou
Stamatis Kraounakis

Coaching
Stamatis Kraounakis

Music
Stamatis Kraounakis
Aris Vlachos
Kostas Baltazanis

Choreography – Movement
Aggeliki Stellatou
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Set & Costume Design
Takis Chatoupis

Video Art
Dick Straker

Music Director
Aris Vlachos

Aris Vlachos piano
Dimitris Tsakas saxophone
Spyros Panagiotopoulos drums – percussion
Dimitris Siambos electric and classical guitar
Nikos Katsikis bouzouki

Cast
Stamatis Kraounakis

With Manolis Mitsias and the Speira Speira company

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