Macbeth at the Οnassis Cultural Centre of Athens

With some of his long-term collaborators on his side, the director Thomas Moschopoulos is ambitiously building a bridge between the Elizabethan masterpiece and the modern era.

This masterpiece of the Elizabethan era is one of the few plays in the world repertoire in need of no introduction. Macbeth is a tragedy which lends itself to a moving theatrical experience which pulsates with life. Given that terror, repression and social and ideological instability were part and parcel of daily life for the people of Shakespeare’s time, and that the work was written in an era of crisis and dramatic political, social and ideological change for Britain and the whole of Europe, the drawing of parallels between Shakespeare’s era and our own must surely be as unavoidable as it is perilous.

Cast: Argyris Xafis, Anna Mascha, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Kostas Berikopoulos, Thanos Tokakis, Yorgos Chrysostomou, Asteris Peltekis, Yorgos Papageorgiou, Dimitris Nasioulas, Konstandinos Voudouris