"Merchants of Nations" by A. Papadiamantis

Photo: Stavros Petropoulos

After ten years of experimentation with their acting and with acquiring a shared code for on-stage communication, the OPERA theatre company is staging Alexandros Papadiamantis’ novel “The Merchants of Nations” to mark the centenary of the author’s death. Both the actors and the musicians playing live on stage serve the narrative, while simultaneously expanding the limits of the theater by exploiting the potential of technology to the full. In the unique strain of music theater to which this gives rise, new media enter into a creative discourse with Papadiamantis’ idiom, with the original music creating a rousing on-stage ambience.

Parallel Events

After-performance talk with the OΠERA Theatre Company's members

22 October 2011
23:30 | Upper Stage

Moderated by:
Dimitris Tsatsoulis, Associate Professor of Theatre Semiotics at the University of Patras, theater critic

Theater workshop for teenagers: “Talking about Papadiamantis”

On Saturdays, 22 & 29 October 2011
12:00-14:00 | 5th floor - Young Theater Workshop | 30 € for the cycle (participants must attend both sessions)

The workshop seeks to introduce the participants to Papadiamantis’ idiom and themes through theatrical improvisations and games. The OPERA theatre company’s actors will give the young people a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of the production and guide them in their exploration of the play, helping them first to identify scenes which are directly relevant to their own lives and then to develop them with the means at their disposal. In this way, themes like power, faith, religion, passion and transcendence will be related to the young people’s everyday lives prior to forming the basis for short scenes—some taken from the play itself—played out on stage in contexts proposed for their relevance to the present day.

Credits:
The workshop will be led by the members of the OPERA Theatre Company

Addressed to: Teenagers 13-17 years old

Language: Greek

Reservations:
T: 213 017 8004 | Email: stegi.education@onassis.org

Talks & Thoughts

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Onassis Stegi

The author and his heroes

25.10.2011

Talks & Thoughts

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Onassis Stegi

The author and his heroes

25.10.2011

Credits

Text
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Dramaturgy
Elsa Andrianou
Direction-Music
Thodoris Abazis
Set Design-Costumes
Eleni Manolopoulou
Video
Stathis Anastasiou
Choreography
Zoe Hatziantoniou
Lighting Design
Alekos Anastasiou
Assistant to the Director
Nefeli Maistrali
2nd Assistant to the Director
Alexandros Chryssanthopoulos
With the actors
Konstandinos Avarikiotis, Georgina Daliani, Kostas Kallivretakis, Nestoras Kopsidas, Maria Parasyri, Danae Saridaki, and the musicians Iakovos Pavlopoulos and Sophia Efklidi
Co-production
Onassis Stegi, OPERA Theatre Company, Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala