Youth Theater Festival 2015

The 5th Teenage Theater Festival, an event staged jointly by the Onassis Stegi and the Grasshopper-Youth company, a pioneer in teenage theater, continues to develop the idea of a theater for and by teenagers and young people of all ages. This year, the Festival spreads its wings still further to embrace young people from the whole of Greece: over 150 teenagers from around the country will be involved this year, writing, acting, questioning, dreaming and creating!

The Festival brings together high school students and municipal theater groups with experienced actors, directors and playwrights. Six months of collective creativity, enthusiasm, inspiration and hard work lead into an impressive theatrical marathon in which the fruit of their labors are staged over four days at the Onassis Stegi.

“On the edge: isolation or perspective” is the title of this year’s Festival, which focuses on the liminal experience, an especially sensitive position and condition both for young people on the threshold of their adult lives and for Greece as a country redefining its position in Europe. What is it like to feel or be on the edge, far from the center? What do you do or not do by way of resistance? Do you move closer to the point where decisions are taken? Do you stand up and be counted, become the change you want to see? Sensitive seismographers of our times, Greece’s teenagers show us the way, revealing aspects of a reality we simply cannot see.