Tuesday, September 11, 2012 through Sunday, September 23, 2012
Classic Greek Tragedy
HELEN OF TROY
”Poor Greeks and Trojans slain for me.
I am a creature made of mist and air.
All for a trick of Hera’s you have died. ”
Είμαι ένα πλάσμα φτιαχμένο από ομίχλη και αέρα.
Όλοι πεθάνατε για ένα τέχνασμα της Ήρας”
Length: 1 hr 10 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
After mounting two successful off-Broadway runs of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (2010) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris (2011), Leonidas Loizides’s acting troupe will return in the Fall of 2012 to present Euripides’s Helen. Produced and directed by the award-wining Leonidas Loizidis, Helen features an outstanding performance by acclaimed actress Eftychia Loizidi and a new adaptation of the play into modern English poetry by Louis Markos, English and Honors Professor and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University.
On Sunday, September 16 and 23 at 7pm, Loizidis will also present “Kaddish to a Life not Lived.” In this moving monologue, written by Michalis Kokkinaris, translated by Despines Kontaxis, and performed by Eftychia Loizidi, a Jewish woman named Sarah shares her final thoughts before being killed at Auschwitz. In unforgettable words, she mourns for the life that she will never live with the man she loves, the children she will never hold in her arms, and the simple dreams she will never see fulfilled.
Helen Of Troy
Helen was written at 412 B.C. and was presented to the audience for
the first time at the same period just after the ending of the
Sicilian expedition with the defeat of the Athenian ship and the
disappointment of the Athenians. This exact outcry of the Athenian
population is expressed by Aggelos in Helen when he learns that so
many years they fought uselessly around an idol. Euripides condemns
war and he considers that it only brings destructions. The war is a
madness, a fallacy that has pitiful results. His faith for peace and
his repulsion for war lead him to write this tragedy that is a cry of
the heart of a pacifist.
Helen Of Troy
Η Ελένη γράφτηκε το 412 π.Χ. και παρουσιάστηκε για πρώτη φορά την ίδια
εποχή δηλαδή μόλις είχε τελειώσει η Σικελική εκστρατεία με την
πανωλεθρία του Αθηναϊκού στόλου και την απογοήτευση των Αθηναίων. Αυτή
ακριβώς την κατακραυγή του Αθηναϊκού λαού εκφράζει ο Άγγελος στην
Ελένη όταν μαθαίνει ότι τόσα χρόνια πολεμούσαν μάταια γύρω από ένα
είδωλο. Ο Ευριπίδης καταδικάζει τον πόλεμο και θεωρεί ότι φέρνει μόνο
καταστροφές. Ο πόλεμος είναι μία τρέλα, μία πλάνη που έχει οικτρά
αποτελέσματα. Η πίστη του για την ειρήνη και η απέχθειά του για τον
πόλεμο τον οδηγεί να γράψει αυτή την τραγωδία που είναι κραυγή της
καρδιάς ενός ειρηνιστή.
