08/06/2026
I-ONE – World Premiere
On Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August 2026, the Ancient Theatre of Epidavros will host Ion by Euripides, one of the most enigmatic plays of the ancient Greek drama, directed by Thomas Moschopoulos.
© Dimitris Loutsios
The action transpires within the sacred oracle of Apollo at Delphi, a site that constitutes a threshold between the sensed and the invisible, the public and the private. There, the young Ion grows up nameless, with his true origins unbeknownst to him. He struggles to put together a sense of identity through fragments, even as the audience already knows the truth. Through contradictions, refractions, and misinterpretations, an obscure and nearly invisible past crystallises into a solid, tangible present, while an anticipation of meaning rises through the void.
Ion defies clear classification. It is not a “pure” tragedy, as it teeters between the tragic and the comic, myth and realism, mysticism and scepticism, always stirring issues of identity and belonging. Moreover, it is a work that appears to converse directly with present-day experience, in an era where everything seems to be under constant consideration and renegotiation.
With Greek and English surtitles.