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androsTountas, Hephaestus/Dance – StathisGrapsas,
Oceanus/Dance – Antonis Myriagkos, Io – Sophia
Hill, Hermes Leader of the Chorus – Savvas Stroum-
pos, Leader of the Chorus – SofiaMichopoulou.
Theatre Lab Company:
Antigone
Translator: Robert Fagles, Director: Anastasia
Revi, Set and Costume Designer: Maira Vazeou,
Composers/Musicians: Daemonia Nymphe, Light-
ing and Photography: Yiannis Katsaris, Graphic
Designer: Katerina Kres, Production Manager:
Martina Reynolds, Set Construction: Mark Bram-
fitt, Set ConstructionAssistant: Eleanor Dear.
Performers: Antigone – Lisa Stuart, Ismene –
Kathryn Carpenter, Chorus – Kostantinos Kava-
kiotis/ Ian Mairs/ Matthew Wade, Creon – Ryan
Hurst, Sentry/Messenger – Tobias Deacon, Hae-
mon –AdamYoussefbeygi, Tiresias – Johan Buck-
ingham, Eurydice – Susie Fairbrother.
National Theatre of Northern Greece:
Dionysus
Feast
Text synthesis: Kostas Georgousopoulos, Direc-
tor: Yiannis Rigas/ Gregoris Karantinakis, Set:
Lily Pezanou, Costume Designer: Ersi Drini, Mu-
sic: Yiorgos Christianakis, Choreographer: Costas
Gerardos, Light Designer: Andreas Bellis, Music
Instructor: Nikos Voudouris, Assistance Director:
Karolos Armenis, Assistance Costume Designer:
CleopatraAlagioglou, Video: Yiannis Piralis/Anda
Liakou, Production: Rodi Stefanidou.
Performers: Stage manager/ Oedipus (at Colonus)/
Chremylus/Agoracritus the sausage seller –Yiorgos
Armenis, Prometheus/ Orestes – Lazaros Georgako-
poulos, Guard/ EmployeeA–Yiannis Kalantzopou-
los, Electra – Maria Karamitri, Electra/ Myrrhine –
Tamila Koulieva,Ajax –Demetris Kolovos, Hecabe
– Lina Lampraki, Praxagora – Sofia Lappou, Phry-
gian/ EmployeeB–YiannisMallouchos, Helen/ Ly-
sistrata/ Old woman – Photini Baxevani, Cassandra/
Clytaemnestra – Alexandra Sakellaropoulou, Cine-
sias – Costas Santas, Angel – Vasilis Spyropoulos,
Orestes/ Eteocles – Nikos Psaras, Chorus – Iorda-
nis Aivazoglou, Panos Argiriades, Loukia Vasiliou,
Demetris Diakosavvas, Chrysa Zapheriadou, Maria
Karamitri, Iannis Karaoulis, Demetris Kartokis,
Yiorgos Kolovos, Erica Bigiou, Christos Papa-
demetriou, Charis Papadopoulos, Marianna Papas-
avva, Evi Sarmi, Christos Stylianou,Amalia Tataria,
Chrysa Toumanidou,Antigone Phryda.
Greek Tragedy is an endless landscape where gods and humans try to define the boundaries of what it
means to live a good life, try to bring together the incredible power of heaven and earth. Being Greek,
my first experience of Sophocles’s tragedy
Antigone
was as a teenager at school. It was the era of ideals,
the era of believing in changing the world. Times might have changed since then, but these timeless
classics are there to influence your life forever and they can still make your heart beat fast when you
read or hear: “OhAntigone... you are in love with impossibility”, and this is where the story begins.
Anastasia Revi
Photo: Cyprus Centre of the International Theatre Institute