Thursday, 10th April
Vassiliko Hall
3:00 pm
Theatre and Diversity
Colloquium
Chairman, Savas Patsalidis, critic, Professor of Theatre, University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Keynote speaker, Richard Schechner, critic, director, Professor, University of New York (USA)
Contributors, in alphabetical order:
Carmelita Celi, critic (Italy); Yiorgos Pefanis, critic, Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Athens (Greece); Leandros Polenakis, critic, Doctor of Philosophy, Pantion University (Greece); Marika Thomadaki, critic, Professor of Theatre, University of Athens (Greece); Dimitris Tsatsoulis critic, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of Patras (Greece)
Lazaristes Monastery
7:00 pm
Mnemopark by Stefan Kaegi – Rimini Protokoll
Theater Basel
running time: 1 hour 30 minutes
performed in German with surtitles in Greek and English
Vassiliko Theatre
9:30 pm
Cleansed by Sarah Kane
directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny
running time: 2 hours 40 minutes
performed in Polish with surtitles in Greek and English
Friday, 11th April
Vassiliko Hall
10:00 am
Conference and Meeting with Krzysztof Warlikowski
Curator, Georges Banu, Honorary President of IATC, Professor Sorbonne Nouvelle and essayist (France)
in collaboration with Piotr Gruszcszynski, Dramaturg (Poland)
Contributors, in alphabetical order:
Anderzej Chyra, actor (Poland); Renate Jett, actress (Switzerland); Maja Komorowska, actress (Poland); Christian Longchamp, Directeur Artistique La Monnaie (Belgium); Grzegorz Niziolek, critic (Poland); Jacek Poniedziałek, actor and translator (Poland); Małgorzata Szczęśniak, set-designer (Poland); Bruno Tackels, philosopher, essayist and critic (France)
12:00 am
De la Maison des Morts
film of Patrice Chéreau’s production of the opera by Janáček
directed by Stéphane Metge
international preview
running time: 1 hour 40 minutes
original version in Czech, with subtitles in Greek and English
3:30 pm
Symposium on Patrice Chéreau
Curator, Georges Banu
Contributors, in alphabetical order:
Anne-Françoise Benhamou, artistic councillor TNS (France); Dominique Blanc, actress (France); Luc Bondy, theatre and opera director, Artistic Director of Wiener Festwochen (Austria/Switzerland); Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, actress and film director (France/Italy); Philippe Calvario, actor and theatre director (France); Bertrand Couderc, light-designer (France); Marie Desplechin, writer(France); François Gedigier, editor (France); Clément Hervieu-Léger, actor (France); David Lan, Artistic Director Young Vic Theatre (Great Britain); Stéphane Metge, director (France); Thierry Thieû Niang, director (France); Vincent Perez, actor (France); François Regnault, Professor Paris X, playwright and essayist (France); Catherine Tasca, Senateur of Yvelines, former Culture Minister (France); Anne-Louise Trividic, scriptwriter (France)
Vassiliko Theatre
6:00 pm
From The Bacchai by Euripides
directed by Tasos Ratzos
directing supervision by Nikitas Tsakiroglou
The National Theatre of Northern Greece
running time: 1 hour 40 minutes
performed in Greek with surtitles in English
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
8:45 pm
Generation Jeans
by Nikolai Khalezin, with the participation of Natalia Koliada
directed by Nikolai Khalezin - Belarus Free Theatre
running time: 1 hour 30 minutes
performed in Russian with simultaneous translation in English and French and surtitles in Greek
10:45 pm
Being Harold Pinter
directed by Vladimir Scherban – Belarus Free Theatre
running time: 1 hour 15 minutes
performed in Russian with simultaneous translation in English and French and surtitles in Greek
Saturday, 12th April
Vassiliko Hall
10.00 am
About Sasha Waltz
Garden of Earthly Delights - the Choreographer Sasha Waltz
film by Brigitte Kramer
running time: 59 minutes
production: nachtaktivfilm in cooperation with ZDFtheaterkanal and ARTE
11:30 am
Conference and Meeting with Rimini Protokoll
Curator, Florian Malzacher, co-Programmer Steiricher Herbst Festival Graz (Austria)
Contributors, in alphabetical order:
Sven Age Birkeland, Director BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen (Norway); Hannah Hurtzig, Dramaturg/curator Mobile Academy (Germany); Peter Kirschen, performer (Germany); Thomas Kuczynski, performer (Germany); Hans -Thies Lehmann, University of Frankfurt (Germany); Frie Leysen, Artistic Director Meeting Points (Belgium); Ahmed Mehdi, performer (Switzerland); Heidi Mettler-Grab, performer (Switzerland)
3:00 pm
Presentation of the book
Giorgio Strehler ou la passion théâtrale/Giorgio Strehler or a passion for theatre
3:30 pm
Symposium on Patrice Chéreau
followed by
Critics’ statements and discussion
Vassiliko Theatre
6:30 pm
La Douleur
by Marguerite Duras
performed by Dominique Blanc and Patrice Chéreau
under the close supervision of Thierry Thieû Niang
running time: 1 hour 20 minutes
performed in French with surtitles in Greek and English
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
9:00 pm
Zone of Silence
by Nikolai Khalezin, Natalia Koliada, Vladimir Scherban
directed by Vladimir Scherban - Belarus Free Theatre
running time: 3 hours 30 minutes with two intermissions
performed in Russian with simultaneous translation in English and French and surtitles in Greek
especially created for the Europe Theatre Prize
Sunday, 13th April
Vassiliko Hall
10:00 am
Symposium on Patrice Chéreau
followed by an interview with Patrice Chéreau
12:30 am
Conference and Meeting with Belarus Free Theatre
Curator, Michael Billington, drama critic for The Guardian
Contributors, in alphabetical order:
Christian Benedetti, director (France); Erik Ehn, California Institute of the Arts (USA); Boris Gerets, director and professor (Netherlands); Alexander Milinkevich, Head of the United Democratic Forces (Belarus); Robert Palmer, Director of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage - Council of Europe (Belgium); Gottfried Wagner, Head of the European Cultural Foundation (Netherlands)
3:15 pm
WAHL KAMPF WALLENSTEIN
film by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel - Rimini Protokoll
international preview
running time: 58 minutes
original version in German with subtitles in Greek and English
Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies
5:00 pm
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
work in progress directed by Oskaras Korsunovas
international preview
running time: about 1 hour
performed in Lithuanian with surtitles in Greek and English
Vassiliko Theatre
8:30 pm
Award Ceremony
followed by
Coma by Pierre Guyotat (éditions Mercure de France)
performed by Patrice Chéreau
directed by Thierry Thieû Niang
running time: 1 hour 15 minutes
performed in French with surtitles in Greek and English
especially created for the Europe Theatre Prize