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man), Pantelis Dentakis (Chremes), Nikos Kardonis
(First man), Stratos Christou (Secondman), Georgia
Georgoni (Young woman)
Chorus: Mary Saousopoulou, Ntini Renti, Polyxeni
Aklidi, Eirini Georgalaki, Maria Georgiadou, Geor-
giaGeorgoni,AndriTheodotou,KaterinaMaoutsou,
Sotiria Rouvoli, Eirini Fanarioti, Elena Hatjiafxenti
The Frogs
The Frogs
was presented by Magdalena Zira and
FantasticTheatre, her theatre company. Zira adapted
the play using Vayos Liapis’s new translation and
combined innovative and traditional elements with
music by Lefteris Moumtzis. Using the text as a
foundation and inspired by the similarities between
the play’s social framework and that of modern so-
ciety, the direction and adaptation recasts
The Frogs
to reflect our current reality.
The Frogs
is a delightful
comedy in which the god of drama himself, Diony-
sus, appears.
Translation: Vaios Liapis
Direction/Adaptation: Magdalena Zira
Set Design: DemetrisAlithinos
Costumes: Elena Katsouri
Composer: Lefteris Moumtzis
Choreography: Chloe Melidou
Music supervision: Sophronis Sophroniou
Cast: Valentinos Kokkinos (Dionysus), Dem-
etris Antoniou (Xanthias, Aeschylus), Michalis
Sophocleous (Heracles, Pluto), Marinos Konso-
los (Leader of the Chorus, Aeacus, Maid), Marina
Vronti (Charon, Euripides, Plathani)
Chorus of Frogs: Demetris Antoniou, Michalis So-
phocleous, Marinos Konsolos, Marina Vronti, And-
rea Demetriou, Marcos Ioulios Droushiotis, Maritsa
Elia
Antigone
The Festival closed with Tommaso Traetta’s opera,
Antigone
, presented by Skull of Yorick Productions,
UK.
Antigone
was directed by Zamira Pascieri and
Kassandra Dimopoulou. Based on Sophocles’ trag-
edy, the work of the Italian composer Tommaso
Traetta is presented in a new, groundbreaking pro-
duction. Traetta’s music is delivered in a contempo-
rary performance that blends modern sounds with
Baroque music and the music of the ancient world.
Antigone represents an innovative step for opera by
combining traditional, classical and electronic in-
struments.
Creon, king of Thebes, prohibits the burial of Polyn-
ices, who rose against Thebes, the city of his birth,
and tried to conquer it. His sister, Antigone, con-
vinced to follow divine law rather than arbitrary
state law, secretly buries her brother and is sentenced
to death. Not even Haemon, the son of Creon, who
loves Antigone and protests against his father’s de-
cree, manages to save her.
Directors: Zamira Pasceri – Kassandra Dimopoulou
Costumes/Set Design:ARTLUXE
Orchestration: PhilipModinos
Cast: Jenny Drivala (Antigone), Philip Modinos
(Creon), Kassandra Dimopoulou (Iseme), Louisa
Petais (Haemon),MariosAndreou (Priest/Guard)
Chorus: DepiMavropoulou (leader), Panikos Loizou,
Marios Fylakoudias, Andreas Fylakoudias, An-
dreas Stylianou, Konstantinos Stylianou, Dimitris
Nikoloulopoulos, PanagiotisNikoloulopoulos, Frixos
Nikoloulopoulos, Antonis Eyripidou, Giorgos Proto-
Antigone
The Eumenides