Philoctetes by Sophocles

Sat Jul 12, 2014

21:00

Location

Paphos Ancient Odeon
Paphos, Paphos

Description

Part of the 18th International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama

ETHAL (Limassol Theatre Development Company) in cooperation with Technodromio, Cyprus and a Pera Theatre, Greece, will present Sophocles’ tragedy Philoctetes, translated by the awarded Greek poet Giorgos Blanas and directed by the Artistic Director of ETHAL, Minas Tigkilis. This is ETHAL’s first participation at the Festival. The leading roles will be interpreted by Eftihios Poullaides as Philoctetes, Kostas Kazakas as Odysseus, Konstantinos Gabriel as Neoptolemus and Alexandros Parisis as the Tradesman. Philoctetes is a tragedy about human pain, abandonment and the association between conscience and politics, honour and duty.

All foreign language performances of the festival will be surtitled in English and Greek. All Greek performances will have English surtitles

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All the performances of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama are included in the official events programme of the Organisation “European Capital of Culture – Pafos 2017”