THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 2024
HELLENIC THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION NETWORK (TENet-Gr)
MAIN WORKSHOP 23-26/8/2024
"Analysis and Representation of the Ancient Dramas:
Oresteia, Antigone, Bacchae, and Frogs "
Georgia Mavragani
Language: Greek
(more on the Summer Camp 2024 here)
- How myth is used in ancient drama and where this knowledge is useful to us in its stage representation.
- What it deals with on a political and religious level and how this is verified on stage and by the chorus.
- What is the function of the chorus and how it can be realized in a modern stage manner.
- What is the religious and symbolic context of ancient drama and how this knowledge can help us in its representation.
- Basic principles of approaching speech in ancient drama in open spaces.
- Comedy and its enigma
Georgia Mavragani was born in Agrinio Greece. She studied educational sciences and early childhood education at the University of Patras and theater studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of ATHENS. She also completed post-graduate study in the performing arts at DasArts in Amsterdam, Holland. She has written and directed “The Suicide’s Roof”; “First-hand: A performance on tobacco workers”; “Not innocent anymore”; “Life is not an easy thing”; “Everyone does it that way”; “Everything I know about the world”; “Old Age – a choral ode”; and “Despite all that” (based on the testimonies of cancer survivors). Her directorial work includes Robert Musil’s “The Confusions of young Törless”, Demosthenes Papamarkos’s “Giak”, Tennesse Williams’s “Suddenly last summer”, Xenia Kalogeropoulou and Thomas Moschopoulos’s “The lucky soldier”, and Aeschylus’s “Oresteia: Eumenides”. She has collaborated with the following theaters and institutions among others: Amore, Askisi, Poreia, Chora, Epi Kolono, Stegi Arts and Letters, Embros, -1 The National Theater’s Experimental Stage, Porta, The National Theater of Northern Greece, The Cyprus Theater Organisation, National Theater, and Piraeus 260. She is a founding member of the performance collective “Kinisi Mavili” and, since 2010, has taught acting at the Delos School of Dramatic Arts, where, in collaboration with her students, she has staged readings of a variety of dramatic works. Since 2003 she has also taught in the public primary school system and has led both professional and amateur acting and performance workshops (bios, The Little Theatre in Agrinio, The Greek Cancer Society, among others) that engage the skills and techniques of documentary theater.
Organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Info. info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600