The International Festival of Patras and the stage of the Municipal Summer Theater will be on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 July one of the most important stops on this year’s route of Euripides’ emblematic tragedy “Heracles the Raging”, in the open theaters of the country.
The show is directed by Dimitris Karantza from a great troupe, made up of Pygmalion Dadakaridis, George Gallos, Stephania Gouliotis, Iro Bezou, Anna Kalaitzidou, Yiannis Kinis, Aeneas Tsamatis
The music is by Fotis Siotas who, in a prominent role on stage, immerses the audience in the existential anguish of Euripides’ emblematic tragedy.
At the center of the work is Herakles. This mythical person will collapse in the most painful crash and from a demigod will become a miasma, through a merciless game of the Gods.
In this, the Poet’s darkest and most human work, the setting is Thebes, which is under the tyranny of the Wolf, after Heracles has left for his last labor. Heracles’ father and wife, exiled and dying, have no hope. So does Choros who is suddenly enslaved to the regime of the Tyrant Wolf. When Hercules comes from Hades having accomplished all his labors, he overthrows Lykos and everything indicates that their end will be happy. But the will of the Gods – the Tyranny of Hercules – stains the hero’s hands with the sickest blood. The blood of his wife and children, which he will kill spurred on by the fury of Rage.
A punishment for a hero(?), demigod(?) or just a human who went beyond the norm, stepping outside of the human and disrupting structure and predetermined boundaries?
Through this parable, with its strong political ramifications, Euripides illuminates the inadequacy and “littleness” of human existence in the face of a higher power – whether it is called Regime Tyranny or God – that destroys the human will and vanishes it into non-existence.
CONTRIBUTORS: Translation: Mary Yossi, Director: Dimitris Karantzas, Dramatic editing: Antonis Antonopoulos, Dimitris Karantzas, Music: Fotis Siotas, Set: Konstantinos Skourletis, Costumes: Ioanna Tsami, Movement: Tassos Karahalios, Lighting: Dimitris Kasimatis, Assist director: Panagiotis Gizotis
Distribution: Pygmalion Dadakaridis – Herakles, George Gallos – Amphitryon, Stefania Goulioti – Megara, Iro Bezou – Iris, Anna Kalaitzidou – Lyssa, Aeneias Tsamatis – Lykos, Nikos Milias – Theseus, Fotis Siotas / Dimitris Hatzizisis – Dance | Live Music, Yannis Klinis – Dance, Gal Robisa – Dance, Babis Galiatsatos – Dance: Thanasis Raftopoulos – Dance, Antonis Antonopoulos – Dance
Ticket prices: General admission €25.00, Students – Unemployed – Disabled students, children with many children €20.00.
Ticket supply: more.com, joe records record store (Karaiskaki 134), Rodopoulos Bookstore (Corinthou 274), Discover Bookstore (Vourvachi 3).
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