Faust, the medieval legend that Goethe laboured over for six decades, is one of the great masterpieces of world theatre. The play tells the story of an educated but discontented man searching for a deeper purpose in his life. Despondent at the realisation of his own insignificance, Faust strikes a bargain with Mephistopheles, selling him his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and earthly pleasures. With his help, he becomes young again and falls in love with Margarete, but their relationship ends in tragedy. 

It is a thrilling work about the fierce conflict between the body and the spirit, experience and knowledge, and the Apollonian and the Dionysian. It delves into the agonising struggle to find meaning in existence and seek redemption. Assisted by an extraordinarily talented team of cast and creatives, Aris Biniaris delivers a characteristically electrifying production in which the music takes centre stage.

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creative Team:

Translator: Ioannis Theodorokopoulos
Adaptation, Director: Aris Biniaris 
Dramaturgical advisor: Nefeli Papanastasopoulou
Sets, Costumes: Paris Mexis 
Music: Jeph Vanger
Lighting design: Stella Kaltsou
Dramaturg: Erie Kyrgia
Directing assistant: Gelly Pedefu
Cast (in alphabetical order): Lena Bozaki, Babis Galiatsatos, Alexandra Hasani, Yilmaz Husmen, Stelios Iakovidis, Ilektra Kartanou, Nadia Katsoura, Marios Kritikopoulos, Maria Manta, Marianna Mathia, Ioanna Mavrea, Aris Ninikas, Vasilis Papadopoulos, Stefanos Pittas, Konstantina Takalou, Eirini Tsellou, Michalis Valasoglou

The international hit The Inheritance by the contemporary American dramatist Matthew López, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2019 and the Tony for Best Play in 2020, now gets its Greek premiere.

Inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End, López borrows elements from the novel by the homosexual English writer and reimagines it to tell the story of a group of gay men in New York in the late 2010s. Along with them, he has Forster himself appear on stage, helping the characters to tell their story. In fact, there are three generations implicated in the action: the one that came of age in the early 20th century, the later cohort of the 1980s, which grew up amidst the AIDS epidemic, and the men of today. 

The play speaks with disarming honesty about gay lives, while at the same time exploring themes that concern us all, such as love, loss, family, identity, individual responsibility, the sense of belonging, the preservation of historical memory, but also the deep need we all have to love and be loved. López thus addresses not only a gay audience, but everyone, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, in a humane, moving, yet political work that is brought to the stage in a superbly cast production bearing the characteristic directorial stamp of Yannis Moschos.

The play will be performed in two parts, which can be seen either on separate days or in a single performance on Sundays.

by Matthew López

Creative Team:

Translator and director: Yannis Moschos
Set design: Tina Tzoka
Costume design: Vana Giannoula
Music: Thodoris Economou
Movement: Anthi Theofilidi
Video design: Nikos Pastras
Lighting design: Christina Thanasoula
Production dramaturg: Erie Kyrgia 
Directing assistant: Thomais Triantafyllidou
Set design assistant: Kyriaki Forti
Costume design assistant: Alexandros Garnavos
Cast (in alphabetical order): Kostas Berikopoulos, Angelos Bouras, Giorgos Christodoulou, Alkiviadis Maggonas, Yorgos Makris, Stephanos Mwange, Kostas Nikouli, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Themis Panou, Thanasis Raftopoulos, Alexandra Sakelaropoulou, Giorgos Ziakas

In about half an hour, the long-awaited press conference will finally take place. Unbelievably, after decades of captivity in the British Museum, the ethereal Caryatid, the long-lost sixth sister, the shimmering symbol of an entire civilisation, is to return to Greece! The whole country is on tenterhooks waiting for her arrival, as if she were a best friend, aunt, or long-lost cousin from abroad. However, her journey home doesn’t go as smoothly as planned.

Katerina Mavrogeorgi directs Caryatid!, a brand new play by Giorgos Kapoutzidis about this long-suffering country’s remarkable tendency to get caught up in situations that quickly spiral out of control – in this case, with hilarious results.

By Giorgos Kapoutzidis

Creative Team:

Director: Katerina Mavrogeorgi
Dramaturgical advisor, Artistic associate: Antonis Antonopoulos
Set design: Artemis Flessa
Costume design: Ifigeneia Daoudaki
Music: Larry Gus
Movement: Sofia Paschou
Lighting design: Vasia Attarian
Video design: Tasos Goletsos
Production dramaturg: Vivi Spathoula
Set design assistant: Aggeliki Vassiliopoulou-Kampitsi
Cast (in alphabetical order): Asimina Anastasopoulou, Maria Filini, Sotiris Manikas, Agoritsa Oikonomou, Mihalis Panadis, Drosos Skotis, Stelios Xanthoudakis

The mythical Pandora is - according to ancient Greek mythology - the first woman in the world, a creature created by Hephaestus from earth and water and endowed by the gods with their gifts. Zeus uses her in order to take revenge on Prometheus and the human race. He orders Hermes to lead her to Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus, who falls in love with her and the two marry. Zeus gives Pandora a jar as a wedding gift with the instruction never to open it. Pandora, however, opens it, releasing Disease, Senility, War, Despair, Envy, Cruelty, and Death. People's lives are changed forever. This is the story of Pandora. Or is it not?

A new version of the ancient myth of Pandora, in a visual performance that uses the technique of the theatrical clown and elements of ritual. A performance that explores the dark and comic aspects of the myth in order to talk about the evils that still plague humanity, but also about the last gift inherited by Pandora: Hope.

By Wichi

Creative Team:
Conception, direction, movement: Wichi
Dramaturgy consultant, artistic collaborator: Marissa Triantafyllidou
Set design, costumes, masks: Konstantinos Chaldaios
Music: Angelos Triantafyllou
Lighting: Ioanna Zerva
Assistant director: Pavlina Marvin
Cast: (in alphabetical order) Anastasia Anagnostopoulou, Krystalli Zacharioudaki, Dimitra Onoufriadou, Giorgos Skarlatos, Vassilis Tsalikis, Nikos Frantzeskos

Three sisters. Three women united by the closest of kinships – a single generation in a single family. Sisters, but doomed to live separate lives.

As the eldest, Olga will always dwell in the past.
Masha, the middle sibling, will commit herself to the present.
And Irina, the youngest, will dream of the future.

For more than a century, Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece has served as a perfect metaphor for talking about time. It is a play of desires that have been buried or forgotten; of broken clocks and lives left unfulfilled; of daily household rituals steeped in silence; and of infectious tears and laughter. Above all, it explores the confusion felt by those searching for meaning, and the self-deception that keeps us all afloat. 

Three Sisters is about men who say they love their wives and women who are constantly yearning.  About those who lose their footing because of love. And ultimately about all the things that never happen – in short, about life.

Creative Team: 

Director: Maria Magkanari
Dramaturgical advisor: Sophia Eftychiadou
Set design: Filanthi Bougatsou
Costume design: Pavlos Thanopoulos
Music: Haralambos Gogios
Movement: Cecile Mikroutsikou
Lighting design: Maria Gozadinou
Production dramaturg: Eva Saraga
Directing assistant: Eleni Pappa
Set design assistant: Natasa Lekkou
Costume design assistant: Antonia Michaliou
Cast (in alphabetical order): Andriana Chalkidi, Thanassis Dimou, Nikolatos Douros, Dimitris Drossos, Maria Georgiadou, Antonis Gritsis, Amalia Kavali, Andreas Natsios, Elina Rizou, Nancy Sideri, Maria Skoula, Thaleia Sykioti, Aineias Tsamatis, Giorgis Tsampourakis, Tryfonas Zacharis.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey, a book loved by young and old alike, and a classic masterpiece for children. It has been translated into many languages ​​and brought to television as an animated series. Shrunk down to the size of a thumb by a meddlesome sprite, the mischievous Nils suddenly finds that he can understand the language of animals. He embarks on a long adventure on the back of the family’s goose, following a flock of wild geese, but the further he gets from home, the more he dreams of becoming a normal boy again. His travels are a child’s Odyssey, a thrilling coming-of-age tale that highlights the importance of empathy.

Elias Kounelas draws inspiration from the world of Lagerlöf and Nils Holgersson to create an original work about time and the freedom of flight. Perhaps we all have a challenging journey in us worth taking. Perhaps the things we once thought beneath our notice are what will ultimately help us soar.

Creative Team:

Director: Elias Kounelas
Set and costume design: Katerina-Christina Manolakou
Music: Giorgos Papaioannou, Danai Moraiti
Movement: Ioanna Antonarou
Dramaturg: Eftichia Charalambaki 
Directing assistant: Anna-Maria Papaioannou
Set design assistant: Katerina Karakalou
Cast (in alphabetical order): Ioanna Antonarou, Ifigenia Griva, Emmanouil Kontos, Elias Kounelas, Elina Papatheodorou, Petros Pingas