3rd Youth Theater Festival

Following on from the 2nd Teenage Theater Festival in the spring of 2012, Grasshopper and the Onassis Stegi bring renewed enthusiasm and inspiration to the staging of the 3rd Teenage Theater Festival. Over three days, theater groups from secondary schools, lycées and municipalities will perform work that has developed out of their intense engagement with theater professionals: playwrights, directors, actors and dramatists. Our goal is a high-quality Greek theater for teenagers—but not only—which puts the creativity, imagination and talent of the upcoming generation to full use through our interactions with them.

This year, the Onassis Stegi is inaugurating its partnership with London’s National Theatre in the “Connections” program, a selection of works commissioned from established playwrights and performed in a number of British schools in 2012. At the Onassis Stegi, teenage theater groups from Athens will read the works, giving this year’s Teenage Theater Festival an international dimension.