The 2019 Epidaurus Festival was announced by the artistic director of Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, on Monday 22 October, in a press conference held at the Athens Conservatoire.
ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS
21 & 22 June
Oedipus
Directed by Robert Wilson
Co-production: ConversAzioni – Teatro Olimpico Vicenza – Pompeii Theatrum Mundi – Teatro Stabile di Napoli
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE
28 & 29 June
ORESTEIA by Aeschylus
Agamemnon
Directed by Io Voulgaraki
The Libation Bearers
Directed by Lilly Meleme
The Eumenides
Directed by Georgia Mavragani
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION
5 & 6 July
The Suppliants by Euripides
Directed by Stathis Livathinos
12 & 13 July
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Directed by Konstantinos Markoulakis
Co-production: Athinaika Theatra – Municipal and Regional Theatre of Crete
NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE
19 & 20 July
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides
Directed by Yannis Kalavrianos
26 & 27 July
Comédie-Française
Electra / Orestes by Euripides
Directed by Ivo Van Hove
2 & 3 Aug.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Directed by Dimitris Karantzas
9 & 10 Aug.
MUNICIPAL AND REGIONAL THEATRE OF PATRAS
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Directed by Stavros Tsakiris
LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS
22 June
9th ATHENS OPEN AIR FILM FESTIVAL
Surprise screening
GREEK NATIONAL OPERA – ALTERNATIVE STAGE
28 & 29 June
Kassandra by Iannis Xenakis
Anaparastasis I: The Baritone by Jani Christou
Directed by Alexandros Efklidis
The Day Will Come… by Giorgos Koumentakis
Directed by Ektoras Lygizos
5 & 6 July
Theogony by Hesiod
Directed by Sofia Paschou
12 & 13 July
Griffón DANCE COMPANY
KAOS
Choreographed by Ioanna Portolou
19 & 20 July
Daphnis + Chloe by Longus
Un amore bucolico
Directed by Dimitris Bogdanos
26 & 27 July
Phèdre by Racine
Directed by Efi Theodorou
2 & 3 Aug.
Danaids by Andreas Kalvos
Directed by Natasa Triantafylli