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Theatre
BERLINER ENSEMBLE
Robert Wilson / Claus Peymann
The Berliner Ensemble is bringing two much
talked-about productions to this year’s Athens
Festival: Claus Peymann, the company’s director
since 1999, remains true to his “love affair” with
Thomas Bernhard and directs Gert Voss in
“Simply complicated” (Einfach Kompliziert), the
monologue the Austrian playwright dedicated to
the stage legend, Minetti. A reclusive elderly actor
bitterly recalls the past and the time he was per-
forming Richard III, a role he thought himself
fated to play. Collaborating once again with
Brecht’s theatre, Bob Wilson persuaded Rufus
Wainwright to write his first music for the theatre
and staged 24 of Shakespeare’s 154 love son-
nets in an extremely stylized, surrealistic, oneiric
production, in which genders blend and the bard
is played by the 86 year-old grande dame of the
German theatre, Inge Keller.
This year’s Athens Festival will feature both dis-
tinguished and up-and-coming Greek directors.
Following on from the success of “I die as a coun-
try” at the Athens Festival (Peiraios 260) and
abroad, Michael Marmarinos returns with another
text by Dimitris Dimitriadis,
Insenso
, which was
inspired by Luchino Visconti’s
Senso
. “I am
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Fortunately for our country, art is being less severely hit by the
crisis, as evidenced by the multitude of cultural events sched-
uled for the next few months. We selected the programme of
the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2012 (for the final dates of the
events you can visit www.greekfestival.gr), as well as events at
the Athens Concert Hall and the Onassis Cultural Center
By Nicoleta Makri
CULTURAL AGENDA
ATHENS & EPIDAURUS
FESTIVAL 2012