Six Nights on the Acropolis with Stamatis Kraounakis
Directed by Anastasia Revi
Produced by Theatre Lab and The Hellenic Centre
Based on the novel by George Seferis
Saturday 29 September, 7.30pm & Sunday 30 September 3.30pm and 7.30pm
Language: Greek and English
Six Nights on the Acropolis, the only completed novel written by the Nobel laureate poet George Seferis, is a narrative of confessions, love and friendship, and it revolves around an aspiring poet, and the visits of seven young friends to Acropolis on six consecutive nights of full moon. The poet, a would-be Greek, is someone who after years abroad, cannot see how to “find my path in my own country” and compares himself to the reproduction on the Acropolis of a caryatid that was spirited away to the British Museum a century before. The moonlight on the Acropolis is almost a character in its own right, “that plunged over all like a fishnet woven of violet steel.”
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Tickets: £25, Hellenic Centre Members and concessions £20
The Hellenic Centre,
16-18 Paddington Street,
London W1U 5AS