Saturday, September 27
Tuesday, October 1
Ç. Goebbels: Scaffolding Schliemann
(Baustelle Schliemann)
Ancient and contemporary, traditional and modern … A musical spectacle based on the diaries of H. Schliemann
Co-produced by 'Theseon' Theatre and Ce.M.Th.
Palea Elektriki Theatre
(5 performances)
On the lower 'platform', I came across the ring wall of Lysimachos, made of large, hewn lime bricks joined without cementing, compound, 4 metres high, 3 metres thick, and I have just finished breaking through it.
Behind this second wall there is the wall of large, hewn bricks which I exposed three years again and up to now considered to be a bastion; but it is probable that it will turn out to be something different, (...)
Under the ruins of this temple, I hope to find the remains of the tiny temple found here by Alexander the Great. But it does not seem to me probable that I shall discover, in the depths of this, the old Trojan temple where Hekabe had the priestess Theano lay her precious robe on the knee of Minerva
(Ilias , VI , 302-304) :
'But the graceful Theano took the robe,
laid it there on the knee of Athenae with her beautiful locks.
She prayed on it to the daughter of Zeus, the mighty'.
Since my report of the 1st of the month I have continued the excavations with great zeal. The leaves on the trees are now beginning to spring forth, while the Trojan plain is already covered with spring flowers. After 14 days it is already possible to hear the croaking of millions of frogs in the surrounding marshes, and after eight days the storks returned
.
Music and direction: Heiner Goebbels
in collaboration with Michael Marmarinos
Artistic Direction: Michael Marmarinos
Dimitris Kamarotos
Special Adviser: Helen Petassi
Sets and Costumes: Dora Lelouda
Singers: the actress Lydia Koniordou
the counter-tenor Aggelos Fotiadis
Actors: Akyllas Karazisis
Amalia Moutousi
Musicians: Panagiotis Pierrakos (electronics)
Dimos Papaoikonomou (bouzouki, outi, byzantine hymns)
Thomas Drosos (clarino, flogera, toubeleki)
Production Coordination: Manolis Sardis
Assistant Directors: Stephan Buchberger
Rena Andreadaki
Marilita Lambropoulou
Sound Designer: Vasilis Koundouris
Kostas Bokos
Sound Technician: Kostas Mantzoros
Light Technician: Andreas Trifonas
Technical Administration: Giannis Tsortekis
Administration: Rena Flessa
Rena Andreadaki
Co-produced by 'Theseon' Theatre and Ce.M.Th.
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