A new season begins at the Onassis Stegi this October

International directors who have left their indelible mark on the global stage are directing Greek actors on the Onassis Stegi stages for the first time. Australians Nat Randall and Anna Breckon take the lead on October 5, directing Stefania Goulioti in “The Second Woman,” an unparalleled 24-hour theatrical marathon on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. One woman, one hundred men, twenty-four hours. The same scene is repeated one hundred times, with the dynamics between the performers shifting and the chemistry of each new couple revealing the beauty and complexity of human relationships, all the while electrifying the stage and auditorium of the venue. Brace yourselves for the most addictive performance of your lives in a manifest on love relationships that has kept New York, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Toronto wide awake and is set to be presented at Onassis Stegi in its Greek version.

Relationships also lie at the core of the second production that will open the Upper Stage on October 10. Tiago Rodrigues, the artistic director of Festival d’Avignon and mastermind behind “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists,” which was presented in Onassis Stegi last year, returns to present “Lover’s Choir” for the first time in Greece. This was his debut theatrical play, in which he directs Nikos Karathanos and Marisha Triantafyllidou in an artistic collaboration with Argyro Chioti. A work that is a tribute to love and companionship, as well as a grand love poem in which two actors become one. Two parallel monologues and two voices that sound like one, speaking as if they closely follow each other’s breath and heartbeat. Hence, they narrate subtly different versions of their love story to us.