Cyprus Today, October - December 2014 - page 22-23

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Photographer: Elina Yiounanli
International Sales: Alexandros Vrettos
Production Manager: Elina Fessa
Producer for the Cyprus tour: George G.
Papageorgiou
Producer: Yolanda Markopoulou
Production: POLYPLANITY productions
Oi fonisses tis Papadiamanti
(The murderesses of Papadiamanti)
By Alexandros Rigas and Dimitris Apostolou
(Pattichion Amphitheatre and Arch. Makarios
III Amphitheatre)
A hilarious comedy with the participation
of leading Greek comedians,
Oi fonisses tis
Papadiamanti
follows the story of six women
accused of murder, each of them having killed
someone who was not that innocent. But it
looks as if things in life are not always what
they seem…Papadiamanti’s murderesses are six
women who are “sane” enough to devise and
invoke all sorts of mental illnesses for themselves
in order to avoid conviction for their crimes.
Text: Alexandros Rigas - Dimitris Apostolou
Director: Alexandros Rigas
Costumes - Edited scene: Maria Karapouliou
Lighting: Dionysis Lampiris
Actors: Helen Kastani, Konstantina Michael,
Natalia Dragoumi, Jenny Botsi, Foteini Demiri,
Sophia Vogiatzaki, Patrick Kostis, Parthena
Chorozidou and Jessie Papoutsi.
Production: FILOTHEATON E.E.
Giselle
Adolphe Adam
(at Arch. Makarios III
Amphitheatre, Pattichion Amphitheatre and
Municipal Garden Theatre)
For lovers of classical ballet, the wonderful,
imaginative story of
Giselle
by the St. Petersburg
Theatre Russian Ballet, was a great success at
the KYPRIA 2014 International Festival.
Libretto: A. Saint-George, T. Gautier
Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot,
Marius Petipa
Music Composition: Adolphe Adam
Cast: Giselle, a peasant maiden (international
competitionwinnerAnnaVoutina); CountAlbrecht
(international competition winner Alexander
Voutin); Berta, Giselle’s mother (Maria Chernova);
Hans, forester (Sergey Laletin); Batilda, bride of
the Count (Svetlana Markova); Duke (Andrey
Provotorov); Armourbearer (Mikhail Onuchin);
Mirta(OlgaPudakova);Monna(NataliaSafonova);
Zulma (Victoria Ivanova)
Une saison en enfer (A season in hell)
Giorgos Christianakis
(at THOC Central Stage
and Rialto Theatre)
Prominent GreekmusicianGiorgosChristianakis
stands against the poetry of Rimbaud in an
interesting and challenging performance with
live music and multimedia projections.
Piano, keys, percussion, narration: Giorgos
Christianakis
Guitar: Babis Papadopoulos
Violin, viola: Fotis Siotas
Violin: Michalis Vrettas
Cello: Tasos Misyrlis
Drums, percussion: Vasilis Bacharidis
Electronics, loops: Christos Harbilas
F.O.H sound engineer, loops: Titos Kargiotakis
Visuals: Giannis Piralis
Stage monitor engineer: Vangelis Haholos
Prometheus Bound
By Aeschylus (Curium Ancient Theatre and
Arch. Makarios III Amphitheatre)
Aeschylus’ ancient Greek tragedy
Prometheus
Bound
is a stunning piecewith a direct relationship
with today and human life as it is experienced
by modern man in contemporary societies. It is
not just about the Titan Promitheus’ punishment,
who decided to help human beings by stealing
Fire for them, and who taught them the alphabet
and the use of numbers. Resemblances are not
only limited to the State (“Kratos”) and Violence
(“Via”) being actual mythic persons in ancient
time, while today they act as agents of human
suppression. We have here all the elements of
a modern tragedy. On the one hand the ruling
Oi fonisses tis Papadiamanti
Giselle
Directed byApostolosApostolides (
Deryneia
Municipal Amphiheatre, Arch. Makarios III
Amphitheatre, Pattichion Amphitheatre and
Municipal Garden Theatre)
Traditional music is, without a doubt, the
manifestation of popular oral culture, but
it’s also the intellectual and historical life of
the nation, as it is transmitted from older to
younger generations as the quintessence of
wisdom providing us with spiritual growth,
self-awareness and a well-shaped cultural
identity.
“Tradition Re-loaded
is a proposal which
seeks to interpret and present traditional
Cypriot songs, through a contemporary
approach, using most unusual instruments
that are made out of recycled material,
even out of vegetables. This approach does
not interfere with our goal of remaining
faithful to the original musical sound,
while at the same time we shape for each
one of the songs an innovating and unique
course of acoustics. This is a contemporary
artistic creation, a musical journey in the
field of our popular musical tradition,
producing a colouring in the sound that
shows the coexistence of the old with the
contemporary and the fusion of opposite
yet absolutely compatible hearings.”
This ‘journey’ was accompanied by the
narration of selected poems of Costas
Montis, thus honouring one of the greatest
poets and writers of Cyprus, on the occasion
of the 100th Anniversary of his birth, and
the narration was uniquely embodied in
the whole musical journey, leading the
audience into an innermost redefining of
the universal values and their position in
the world today.
Awonderful musical journey along the paths
of Cypriot musical traditions with the award-
winning Tat Tnabar musical group, combined
with selected poems by Costas Montis.
Tradition Re-loaded
Apostolos Apostolides & Tat-Tnabar
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