Prometheus

“Come in, come in.” Prometheus on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. There is no Caucasus here. No rock, no chain; nothing to keep Prometheus bound. Everything takes place inside a house. A house-cum-meteorite hanging in space-time, engulfed by the four natural elements. Prometheus (Nikos Karathanos), Power and Hermes (Christos Loulis), Bia and Io (Galini Hatzipaschali), Hephaestus and Oceanus (Giannis Kotsifas) – all live here, like a family, making worlds.

“To live is to devour light and darkness, every minute.” Nikos Karathanos gives us his take on this tragedy by Aeschylus, attempting – in his own words – to “mythologize daily life”: “I’ve always tried to understand how pain inside a room can escape those four walls, travel through the air, birth gods and monsters, and bring us myth.”

This acclaimed artist – a perceptive observer of transcendence through readings of the familiar – directs, and performs as Prometheus. He recognizes each and every one of us in this character. “Prometheus represents you and me and everyone, in that moment where we look upon the reality of life and it looks back at us. There is something so very ancient inside every human being that makes time bend away in shame,” he notes.

Nikos Karathanos is turning his hand to ancient Greek drama for a second time, after tackling Aristophanes’ Birds; it is a source material that moves him because “it seems to be telling me constantly that ‘the opinions I have are my tomb, and justness is my resurrection’”.

Credits

Translation/text: Yiannis Asteris

Adaptation: Nikos Karathanos, Yiannis Asteris

Direction: Nikos Karathanos

Set Design: Eva Manidaki

Costumes Design: Aggelos Mentis

Lights Design: Felice Ross

Music: Angelos Triantafyllou

Movement: Amalia Bennett

Sound Design: Yiorgos Poulios

Scenic painter Nikos Karras

Sound Engineer: Kostis Pavlopoulos

Collaborator Director: Marisha Triantafyllidou

Assistant to Director: Ioanna Bitouni

Assistant to Set Designer: Anna Zoulia

Assistant to Costumes Designer: Olga Evaggelidou

Production Assistant: Nikos Charalambidis

Rehearsals Assistants & Filming: Dimitris Stavropoulos, Orestis Stavropoulos

Music Rehearsals Assistants: Alexandros Balaouras, Giorgos Braoudakis, Nikolas Sarlis

Sculptor & Special Constructions: Sokratis Papadopoulos

Sculptor & Special Constructions Assistants: Stefanos Grammenos, Nikoleta Sotiriou

Actors: Nikos Karathanos, Yiannis Kotsifas, Christos Loulis, Galini Chatzipaschali

Live Musicians on stage: Angelos Triantafyllou, Yiorgos Poulios, and Dimitris Gkogas (trumpet), Yiannis Gounaris (horn), Yiannis Kaikis (trombone), Ntinos Triantafyllou (tuba)

Line Production: POLYPLANITY Productions/ Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki

Surtitles Translation Orfeas Apergis

Simultaneous Surtitling Yannis Papadakis

Produced by Onassis Stegi

Prometheus Tour is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Program

With English surtitles:

October 15 (Friday), 16 (Saturday), 17 (Sunday), 22 (Friday), 23, Sunday 24 (Saturday), 28 (Thursday), 29 (Friday) & 30 (Saturday)

This work is dedicated to the memory of our Elli – Elli Papageorgakopoulou.

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Prometheus Bound is considered one Aeschylus’ late works. It is speculated to have been written between 475 and 470 BCE. Certain scholars still consider the date of its creation to be an open question. It is the only surviving work of Greek tragedy in which all the dramatis personae – with the exception of Io – are divine in status. In other words, Prometheus Bound is an affair that unfolds among immortals.

Prometheus Bound is Nikos Karathanos’ second directorial engagement with ancient Greek drama, following his 2016 take on Aristophanes’ The Birds which premiered at the Athens Epidaurus Festival and was produced by Onassis Stegi. The work went on to be presented at the legendary St. Ann’s Warehouse theater in Brooklyn, New York, in May 2018, and was included in New York Magazine’s online “Vulture” list of that year’s Ten Best Theater Productions. In January 2020, The Birds put in an appearance at the Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival in Chile, in the midst of major social and political upheaval. This is the third production Karathanos is directing at Onassis Stegi. Their partnership began in 2015, with Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard.As part of 2018’s pilot Onassis AiR scholarship initiative, Nikos Karathanos undertook a multi-phase program of research trips in central Europe before going on a phenomenological research and practice trip across regions of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Production Info

Onassis Stegi

107-109 Syngrou Avenue

October 10-30, 2021

Main Stage

Performances: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays | 20:30

Duration: 95 minutes

https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/prometheus-nikos-karathanos

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