“Variety is the key word for this year’s repertoire selection and artistic contributions,” said the artistic director of the National Theatre. John Moschos at the theater’s “opening party” yesterday, which is part of an attempt to redefine its identity.

Her performances have also been presented Experimental stage, which, after a two-year break, reopens at the Rex Theater under the direction of Giorgos Kutlis. The Beginning is a touring play “The Topography of Death, or Let’s Not Forget”, conceived and staged by Brikena Gisto on the theme of murders in public space, such as those of Pavlos Fissa and Zach Kostopoulos. This is followed by Yiannis Aposkitis’ Provocateurs directed by Orestis Stavropoulos, a comedy about power and fake news, and The Last Tholuthion directed by Sotiris Rumeliotis and written by Costakis Annan and Suyako, which deal with the revolutionary visions of ordinary people. This is followed by Farewell Lindita by Mario Banussi, a contemporary Balkan tale of loss, as well as Marilena Katranidou’s Yes We Can’t, which focuses on “fatigue societies”.

We will see Nena Mentis and Argyris Pantazaras in Vampires, directed by Stamatis Fasoulis, and in Kleist’s Broken Jar, directed by Akilas Karazisis and Nikos Hatsopoulos, we will meet Thanos Tokakis and Marta Frindzilas.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet directed by Dimitris Karanzas, Reni Pittakis, Iro Bezou and Konstantinos Avarikiotis star among others.

Among other things, works that have not been performed in Greece that will be staged on the Nikos Kourkulos stage were presented, such as Tony Kushner’s House Bright as Day directed by Yiannis Moschos, the “mixed” show stage of “Marika Kotopoulos” (for example, Night in Epidaurus by Nikos Karathanos featuring Hari Alexiou, Christos Loulis, Zeta Makripoulia), Ethnikos collaborations, digital costume show, etc.

Finally, the National Theater organizes a series of discussions with a social dimension. Beginning – “Greek Theater in the Age of #MeToo” (October 3), in the wake of the Lignadis case, featuring Giorgos Kapoucidis, Dimitris Karanzas, Spyros Bibilas and Mr. Moschos.