Awarded theatre/film director/actor Dimos Avdeliotis is staging a number of live
performances (in their third year running) starring acclaimed theatre actress Ioanna
Spanou, based on ancient Greek playwright Thucidides as translated into modern
Greek by the charismatic Early 20th C Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. The
theme of the performances is based on the timeless need to uphold democracy in our
society, as spoken about by Pericles at the Kermakos Cemetary in his Funerary
Oration for those who perished in the Peloponnesian War. Plutarch wrote about the
poignant oratory text that this speech “has the beauty of antiquity but will always
maintain the novelty and relevance of a new and contemporary work. With such
works,” he wrote, “a youthful form that cannot be touched by time can flourish, as if
the words have within them an endless breath and an ageless soul”.
The translation by Eleftherios Venizelos, an eminent figure in the Greek national
liberation movement, makes the text even more relevant to its viewers, as the ancient
past is bridged with recent Greek history. Venizelos wrote it in Paris in a painful
period when the Asia Minor Catastrophe had recently occurred.
The work addresses its listeners as empowered participants in the ideal of
Democracy, as people living an egalitarian existence, each with an individual
potential to create change regardless of talents, capabilities, knowledge or social
class. It addresses the issue of free will in human beings as a higher divine right to
choose for themselves with complete consciousness the extent to which they will
dwell on and create beauty, ugliness, discretion, selfishness, freedom, oppression,
pleasure, torture, humaneness and light, barbarism or compassion.
Actress Ioanna Spanou, who was selected as a modern figure (being a woman) as the
orator, will be performing the text and songs that have been selected from ancient
plays to tie in with the theme of death and rebirth in both Greek and English at the
Katakouzenos House Museum during February (Saturdays 9th, 16th & 23rd) and
March (14th) at 21:15. Entry tickets are 10euros. For more information email: info@katakouzenos.gr
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