Philoctetes by Sophocles

Fri Jul 25, 2014

21:00

Location

Xenion High School
55, 1st Apriliou Street
Paralimni, Famagusta 5281

Phone: 25877827

Description

ETHAL (Limassol Theatre Development Company) in cooperation with Technodromio, Cyprus and a Pera Theatre, Greece, presents Sophocles’ tragedy Philoctetes, translated by the awarded Greek poet Giorgos Blanas and directed by the Artistic Director of ETHAL, Minas Tigkilis.

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.

(in Greek)