January 2023
4, 5 WED, THU 20:30 (90’) ON STAGE
Mouthpiece – Kieran Hurley | Ferefono Theatre Group (15+)
A play by award-winning author Kieran Hurley, presented by Ferefono Theatre Group, for the first time in the Greek language. Directed by Maria Kyriakou and translated by Marios Constandinou.
Cast: Melanie Steliou and Andreas Daniel.
Edinburgh. A random encounter. Two completely different people. Declan inspires Libby to start writing again. Libby gives Declan hope. Declan tells Libby his story. Libby gives a voice to Declan. And what happens next…
Set & costume design: Constandina Andreou
Music: Panos Bartzis
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Photographer: Demetris Loutsios
Tickets: €15 / 12
7 SAT 19:00 (150’)
The Seagull
National Theatre Live
Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.
A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.
Following his critically acclaimed five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd brings Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play to stage.
Filmed live in London’s West End with a cast including Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines), Daniel Monks (The Normal Heart), Sophie Wu (Fresh Meat) and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones).
With English and Greek subtitles.
Tickets: €12 / 8
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8 SUN 11:00 (60’)
Peripato
The Heroes’ Square interactive soundwalk continues with more sessions taking place on a regular basis. A journey across time, an imprint of memory, an experience of sound and visual images in the framework of Rialto’s Associate Artist programme.
A soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future. Stories from the past, monuments and buildings that have been changing over the course of time, as well as a glance at the future of the Square. The Rialto becomes the protagonist, a theatre that has been shaping a cultural identity and constitutes a significant chapter in the history of the emblematic Heroes’ Square. In Greek.
Free entrance (Booking in advance is required).
14 SAT, 20:30 (150’)
Thanasis Alevras, Fokas Evangelinos
Following his successful appearances in Fivos Delivorias’ TV show “Ta Noumera”, multi-talented Greek actor Thanasis Alevras presents on Rialto’s stage his debut personal music and theatre performance, directed by Fokas Evangelinos.
An autobiographical, intimate satirical music show inspired by his very own personal stories, as well as a tribute to Generation X.
Singers Idra Kayne and Jerome Kaluta will be joining the actor on stage, introducing the audience to a music show that spans four decades.
The texts were written by Eleni Gasouka, Foivos Delivorias, Yiorgos Pavrianos and Thanasis Alevras himself who also incorporated, in this performance, some of his older successful shows.
Arrangements: Antonis Skokos.
On-stage musicians: Euripides Zemenidis (guitars)
Alexandros Kouros (keys)
Thanos Michaelides (drums)
Yiorgos Bouldis (bass)
Christos Papadopoulos (clarinet)
Music supervision: Antonis Skokos
Directed by: Fokas Evangelinos
Tickets: € 25 /20
21 SΑT 20:30 (75’)
A tribute to Tania Economou
Marios Tokas Limassol Music School
“Marios Tokas” Limassol Music School presents a tribute in memory of late piano teacher Tania Economou, one year after her passing.
The repertoire, which will be presented by teachers of the Music School, includes pieces written for piano, as well as compositions for ensembles that Tania Economou dearly loved and appreciated.
Tickets: € 5
22 SUN 11:00 (75’)
Spanos and the Forty Dragos | Antilogos Theatre (5+)
In the Cypriot folk tale Spanos and the Forty Dragons, Spanos is the laughingstock of the village: a young boy who hasn’t grown a moustache yet. Until he decides to kill the forty dragons who cut off the water supply causing shortage to the village. Using his wits more than his physical strength, Spanos manages to trick the dragons and kill them all.
In this stage adaptation by Alexia Papalazarou, two young children, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, grow up in the same neighbourhood, with only a strip of no man’s land dividing them. They each play football separately until they become tired and fall asleep. In their sleep, the tale comes to life: will they manage to cooperate, beat the dragons and bring water back to the village?
Directing, stage adaptation: Alexia Papalazarou
On stage: Vassilis Pafitis, Izel Seylani
Linocut: Hambis Tsangaris
Tickets: € 10
22 SUN 20:30 (60’)
The Blacksmiths - Miloš Nikolić | Antilogos Theatre
Serbian Atsa has just discovered that while he was sent as a war prisoner, at Peter's blacksmith shop in Germany, his wife got pregnant with Ivan’s child, a Russian blacksmith. Having found out the truth about his son's paternity, he goes back to Germany, hoping to find a child of his own there. Inside a hardware store, the truth of three fathers and one mother unfolds in a comical and touching way.
Directed by: Neoklis Neokleous
On stage: Haris Kkolos, Panayiotis Kyriakou, Vassilis Pafits, Christina Christofia
Photo: Christos Avraamides
Tickets: €13 / 10 (students, pensioners, PwD)
28 SAT 20:30 (45’) ON STAGE +16
en Attendant I Omada Pende
Omada Pende, with Roula Kleovoulou and Chloe Melidou, take Rialto’s stage and test their patience by waiting for something that will never come…
Waiting is a basic “characteristic” of the human mental and emotional state. We wait in an irrational world, not knowing what the future holds.
The mortality of the human body, the futility of waiting, the lack and loss of communication, concerns and affects our human existence, as does the greatest fear of all… Death.
Choreography: Roula Kleovoulou
Performance: Chloe Melidou, Roula Kleovoulou
Dramaturgy: Chloe Melidou
Music: Chris Cara
Visual installation: Andreas Antoniou, Elena Kotasvili
Costume: Pandelis Pandeli
Lighting design: Panagiotis Manousis
Tickets: €10 / 7
29, 30 SUN, MON 20:30 (100’) ON STAGE
Women Walk Home | Project Season Women
What’s worth dying for? What is the duty of one generation to the generations that follow? What does a heroine look like? Α new play created with the methodology of verbatim theatre, about the women’s marches organized by the movement ‘Women Walk Home’, whose goal was to fight for the human right of free movement in their own country.
Text: Magdalena Zira and Nedie Antoniades
Directed by: Magdalena Zira
Cast: Nedie Antoniades, Sophia Kalli, Yiola Klitou, Zoe Kyprianou, Ioanna Papamichalopoulou,
Maria Hadjichristodoulou
Tickets: €15 / 13
February 2023
3 FRI 20:30 (90’)
Celebrating Astor Piazzolla Ι Carel Kraayenhof Quartet
With the performance 100 years of Piazzolla, the musicians of the Carel Kraayenhof Quartet honor their musical idol Astor Piazzolla, on the occasion of his hundredth birthday.
For bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof, Astor Piazzolla is a musical godfather, a true hero who has influenced and shaped his whole life. From that first moment in that hotel room, when Piazzolla asked Kraayenhof: "Play me something, boy", the love was mutual. The life of the great Dutchman with his Argentinian heartbeat will forever be linked to the genius Argentinian Maestro. As the father of the tango nuevo, Piazzolla personally invited Carel to solo in his Tango Apasionado. Kraayenhof's performance at the Dutch royal wedding left many people deeply moved by Piazzolla's melancholy and powerful music.
If Carel is Piazzolla's musical child, then bass player Jaap Branderhorst and violinist Bert Vos are his grandchildren. Pianist Juan Pablo Dobal, from Buenos Aires, also had a warm relationship with Piazzolla's music at a young age. He accompanied Amelita Baltar, Astor's lover and first interpreter of his ballads and songs.
These four tangueros have been traveling the world together for more than 10 years, with their Sexteto Canyengue and the Carel Kraayenhof Ensemble. They also recorded eight CDs together. They have now formed the Carel Kraayenhof Quartet especially for this concert programme. In 100 years of Piazzolla, instrumental treasures alternate with colourful personal stories from Carel and his musical compañeros.
Quartet: Carel Kraayenhof (bandoneon), Juan Pablo Dobal (piano), Jaap Brandenhorst (doublebass), Bert Vos (violin).
Tickets: € 20 / 15
4 SAT 20:30 (138’)
André Rieu in Dublin
Start 2023 in style with André Rieu in Dublin. Exclusive to cinemas, this celebratory concert is the best way to welcome the new year!
André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra will delight you with romantic melodies, popular classics, party tunes and beloved waltzes. André Rieu in Dublin is the maestro’s first recorded concert in the Irish capital in more than 20 years – a truly special event not to be missed.
Bring your loved ones to your local cinema and enjoy an evening of music and dance on the big screen with André Rieu.
Director: Michael Fizzano, André Rieu
Cast: André Rieu, The Johann Strauss Orchestra
Tickets:€15 / 10
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6, 7 MON, TUE 20:30 (75’)
Drama International Short Film Festival on the Road
The awarded Greek short films of the annual Drama Short Film Festival travel to dozens of destinations every year, including the cities of Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca and Pafos. The screenings are co-organised by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, the Rialto Theatre and Drama ISFF, in collaboration with the Friends of Cinema Society Nicosia, Pafos House of Arts and Letters, Larnaca Cinema Society and Limassol Cine Club.
The following films will be screened: Daphne (Tonia Mishiali), Yama (Andreas Vakalios), Pendulus (Demetris Gkotsis), To Vancouver (Artemis Anastasiadou) , 5 PM Seaside (Valentin Stejskal), Tokakis or What’s my name (Thanos Tokakis), Toxic Magnus (Nasos Gatzoulis), Not tomorrow (Amerissa Basta).
With English subtitles.
Free entrance (Booking in advance is required).
9 THU 20:30 (90’)
Papafigos – Sotos Oritis | Dionysus Theatre
Papafigos is a Cypriot comedy based on Giovannino Guareschi’s Don Camillo adapted for stage and translated in the Cypriot dialect by Sotos Oritis.
In a small village in Nicosia, the inhabitants are getting ready for the upcoming community elections with tensions escalating since the result is most likely predetermined. Right-wing candidate Haritos claims the office of the community leader against his opponent, leftist Peponias. Convinced that he will most likely lose, Haritos devises and implements various tricks with the help of the church, also dragging along Papafigos, the otherwise honest, fair yet hot-tempered community priest. Similar tricks are also devised by the wing supporting Peponias who happens to be friends with Papafigos and was saved by the latter during the bi-communal conflict.
The unpredictable events and comic situations are quickly alternating, with Peponias being elected president of the community. However, amidst the rivalry and hostility between the two sides, a great love will be born between Peponias’ son and Papafigos’ adopted daughter, that will lead the two sides to reconciliation.
Written by: Sotos Oritis
Directing/Music supervision: Christos Yiangou
Set/Costumes: Thelma Kasoulidou
Lighting design: Yiorgos Lazoglou
Cast: Varsia Adamou, Loukia Protopapa, Yiorgos Anayiotos, Christos Yiangou, Stelios Martas, Christopher Greco, Yiannis Kokkinos, Manolis Michaelides, Christina Christophia.
Tickets: €15 / 12 (pensioners, students)
10 FRI, 20:30 (90’)
Orchestra4All 2 Ι Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Conductor and composer Alkis Baltas creates a musical backdrop with excerpts from classical works for the novels Taxi life and The saxophone player by Kostas Lympouris from his novel collection Others of ours (Cyprus State Award for best Novel in 2015).
In his collection, Kostas Lymbouris describes the lives of people from other countries residing in Cyprus in a very exciting literary way. The novels Taxi life and The saxophone player describe the life of two foreign musicians, a double bass player and a saxophone player. In this concert, the novels will be recited by well-known actor Irodotos Miltiadous, accompanied by the CySO under the direction of Alkis Baltas, featuring distinguished soloists Nicos Ioannou (double bass) and Yiannis Myralis (saxophone).
Alkis Baltas: Others of ours: Taxi life
Alkis Baltas: Others of ours: The Saxophone player
Nicos Ioannou (double bass)
Yiannis Mirallis (saxophone)
Irodotos Miltiadous (narrator)
Tickets: € 8 (Free entrance for people with disabilities)
15 WED 20:30 (90’)
The Gamblers – Nikolai Gogol | THOC New Stage
One night, in a provincial Russian town, an experienced gambler and notorious cheat arrives at an inn, looking for his next victim. There, he encounters over eager employees and a group of fellow card sharps who persuade him to join them. Unfortunately for him, he will end up being the loser in a game of deception in which it is impossible to tell a fraudster from an honest dealer.
Gogol began writing his comedy between 1832 and 1837, it was published in 1842, and first staged, albeit in a censored version, in 1843. As the writer satirically uncovers the dark corners of the human soul, everything is a frenetic game of masks and disguises, in which the lines between truth and falsehood, honour and infamy, and sincerity and hypocrisy are blurred and indistinct.
Director Maria Varnakkidou enters into its satirical spirit, identifying truths that resonate to this day and highlighting the decay that lies at the heart of the human condition.
Translation/adaptation: Yiorgos Koutlis
Directed by: Maria Varnakkidou
Set/Costume design: Constantina Andreou
Movement: Lia Haraki
Music: Panos Bartzis
Lighting design: Stavros Tartaris
Assistant director: Loukia Pieridou
Photos: Panayiotis Mina
Cast: Petros Yiorkadjis, Antonis Katsaris, Klitos Komodikis, Marios Konstantinou, Yiannis Minos, Yiorgos Christoforidis.
Tickets: €12 / 6
17 FRI, 20:30 (90’)
Piano Recital with Yiannis Georgiou
Acclaimed Cypriot pianist Yiannis Georgiou will present an exciting recital programme with distinctly different classical musical styles.
In his recital, the virtuoso soloist will be interpreting works by the great masters Scarlatti, Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
A musical journey through contrasting languages, landscapes and means of expression.
Tickets: €15 / 12
18 SUT 19:00 (180’)
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
National Theatre Live
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in William Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.
The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riviera has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love. A string of scandalous deceptions soon surround not only the young couple, but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick.
Following his award-winning productions of Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra, director Simon Godwin returns with this irresistible comedy, broadcast live from the National Theatre stage.
With Greek and English subtitles.
Tickets: €12 / 8
19 SUN 11:00 (60’)
Peripato | MARIA VARNAKKIDOU, CONSTANTINA ANDREOU
This interactive soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future.
Curated by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou.
In Greek.
Tickets: € 5
20 ΜΟΝ 20:30 (70’) ON STAGE
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maria Karolidou Theatre Group
A story consisting of entries in the journal of a young woman who appears to be suffering from postpartum depression. Her husband and doctor spirits her away to an old summer mansion in an attempt to cure her of “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency”, a common diagnosis for women of that time. Confining her in the children’s room, he forbids her from doing any creative work, also imposing her a strict dietary and medical treatment, in addition to electrotherapy. He also deprives her of contact with the rest of the family members, including her baby.
Gilman’s text is a feminist manifesto against the oppression of women and a sharp critique of the patriarchal society of the late 19th century. The author boldly highlights issues such as women’s mental health and the stigma of mental illness, confinement and the imposition of control over the female body, the oppression of women through married life, the devaluation of female identity, women’s lack of freedom of speech, the exclusion of women from work and intellectual creation.
In Greek.
Adaptation, translation, directing: Maria Ioli Karolidou
Set design, projections: Anna Fotiadou
Costumes: Maria Georgiou
Sound design: Yiannis Koutis
Movement: Elena Antoniou
Lighting design: Stavros Tartaris
Poster: Anna Fotiadou
Photos: Dimitris Loutsios
On stage: Antonia Charalambous
Tickets: €15 / 12
24 FRI 20:30 (90’)
Motown goes Latin – Carnival at Rialto / On stage
Motown and Soul music put on a Carnival costume and dress up into Salsa music for a special Carnival night. Seven renowned talented musicians from the island of Cyprus meet on Rialto’s stage to celebrate Limassol Carnival in their own unique musical way.
A special concert with well-known songs from Motown and Soul music genres rearranged by Giorgos Morfitis into a Salsa and Samba dance frenzy.
Vicky Anastasiou (lead vocals)
Elias Ioannou (trumpet)
Charis Ioannou (ten. saxophone)
Antreas Theocharous (trombone)
Giorgos Morfitis (piano & arrangements)
Rodrigo Caceres (electric bass)
Rodos Panayiotou (drums)
Tickets: €12 / 10
March 2023
1 WED 20:30 (90’)
The Voracious – Dimitris Psathas | Satiriko Theatre
A poignant play written by Greek humourist and playwright Dimitris Psathas, The Voracious encapsulates one of the fiercer passions of human nature: greed.
Christos Chrysafis is a poor and hungry young man. His struggle to survive forces him to work for entrepreneur Michalis Kapantais, willing to receive only food as remuneration. When he falls in love and takes for wife the entrepreneur’s daughter, Lena, he instantly falls in love with his father-in-law’s money too. Money and luxuries gradually become an obsession for Christos, who seeks more and more material things, greater responsibilities, higher administrative positions, political power… Nothing can stop him from becoming transformed into a ravenous beast.
Set in the ‘60s yet approached in a contemporary way, with subtle references to the current-day sociopolitical reality, the performance highlights the relevance of the play to the modern world, while satirizing the passions of human nature, the power of money and the thirst of the human being for power. Driven by humour, smart dialogue and the play’s familiar and high-spirited characters, The Voracious reflects the modern society and man’s moral decay.
Directing/Music supervision: Marianna Kafkaridou
Set/Costume design: Lakis Genethlis
Lighting design: Vikentios Christianidis
Assistant director: Marialena Papadopoulou
Assistant set designer: Μικαέλλα Κάσινου
Photos: Christos Avraamidis
Cast: Elena Efstathiou, Andreas Rozou, Vasilis Michael, Spyros Georgiou, Charis Aristidou, Skevi Andreou, Georgia Nikolaou, Nikolas Kourouzidis, Estella Tembrioti, Michalis Anayiotos, Yiorgos Achilleos.
Tickets: €15 / 12
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2 THU 20:30 (80’)
Premiere 3 I Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
In this stylistically rich concert, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Yiorgos Kountouris, will perform works of the French musical romanticism.
The programme will open with the energetic overture from La vie parisienne, one of the most popular operettas by Jacques Offenbach. In the featured concerto, the outstanding Lithuanian cellist Robertas Grod will interpret Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto no. 1, which increased the composer’s popularity amongst French musical circles. The concert will conclude with George Bizet’s masterful First Symphony, a tribute to his teacher, Charles Gounod.
Jacques Offenbach: La vie parisienne: Overture
Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello concerto no. 1 in A minor, op. 33
Georges Bizet: Symphony no. 1 in C major
Robertas Grod: cello
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Yiorgos Kountouris
Premium: €18/14 Ι Stalls: €13/10 Ι Balcony: €8/6
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4 SAT 20:30 (100’)
Christos Thiveos, Panagiotis Margaris
Christos Thiveos and Panagiotis Margaris meet on Rialto’s stage to tell their lyrical stories in their own unique way.
When dusk falls, in mystic places, Christos Thiveos and Panagiotis Margaris create dreams, journeys and tales that begin and end where the soul desires.
C.Thiveos’ distinctive voice becomes intertwined with P.Margaris’ virtuosity, presenting an inventive programme that stirs powerful emotions.
Tickets: € 20 / 15
7 TUE 20:30 (120’)
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde | Anemona Theatre
Anemona Theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary with The Picture of Dorian Gray adapted for stage by Greek author and playwright Rozita Sokou. The play was the first to be presented by Anemona Theatre 17 years ago, an emblematic moment in the theatre’s history.
Dorian Grey is the favourite subject of Basil Hallward, an idealist painter who has just finished painting a portrait of him. While admiring it together with his cynical friend, lord Henry Wotton, Dorian wishes for the picture to age instead of him so that he may remain eternally young. His wish becomes true!
The devastating influence of lord Henry who teaches him that only external beauty and thirst for pleasure are to be ravished, absolve Dorian Grey of any compassion and humanity. Soon enough, he surpasses his mentor and begins, now free from moral barriers, to explore the darkest paths of debauchery, where evilness becomes a synonym of freedom of thought, and everyone else becomes a pawn of his insatiable thirst. Yet the portrait, which constantly reflects a real image of his soul, proves that what he would rather deny, actually exists.
Directing: Andreas Tilemachou
Set design: Andreas Tilemachou
Costumes: THEODORA (Theodora Petrou)
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Assistant set designer: Monica Hadjivassiliou
Music supervision: Andreas Tilemachou
Cast: Andreas Tilemachou, Marinos Xenofontos, Petros Petrou, Elia Ioannidou, Fani Sokratous, Nikolas Petrou, Yianna Lefkati.
Tickets: €15/12
9 THU 20:30 (75’)
Seven brothers are waiting
Spyros Papavassiliou, Christoforos Frantzis
A personal documentary illustrating the life of Kyriakos Frantzis, a 1974 missing person, through the eyes of his brothers and fellow soldiers who remember the last day he was seen in the 1974 Turkish invasion.
The film describes the daily life of Kyriakos and his family in Pelendri village, up to the last time he was seen when his order was forced to retreat from Pachyammos, Kyrenia. Through a human gaze, the documentary attempts to shed light on Kyriakos’ existence, as well as on the suffering of his loved ones.
Despite drawing inspiration from Kyriakos Frantzis, the film also highlights the common suffering of the families of missing persons across Cyprus.
Directing, DOP, Editing: Spyros Papavasiliou & Christoforos Frantzis
Music: Achilleas Ioannou. In Greek.
Tickets: €5
10 FRI 20:30 (80’)
Starlight 4 –Great Performers I Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and its artistic director Günter Neuhold are thrilled to share the stage with the rapidly rising violin star Stephen Waarts, to present late romantic masterpieces.
Stephen Waarts’ innate and poetic musical voice has established him as a firm favourite with audiences. Waarts has performed in prestigious concerts halls and festivals in Europe and the US with renowned orchestras and conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Marin Alsop, Constantinos Carydis, Nicholas McGegan. During the 2022/23 season, Waarts is making his debuts with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin with Stephanie Childress, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir András Schiff. In 2022, Alpha Classics released Waarts’ first concerto recording: Mozart Violin Concerto No.1 with the Camerata Schweiz under Howard Griffiths. Waarts is the winner of numerous prizes and awards including the International Classical Music Awards Orchestra Award by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in 2019 and the first prize at the 2014 Menuhin Competition.
Stephen Waarts will interpret the highly virtuosic violin concerto of Jean Sibelius and the concert will close with Johannes Brahms’ melodious, full of emotional contrasts, Second Symphony.
Zone A: €25/18 I Zone B: €20/15 I Zone C: €17/12
14 TUE 20:30 (80’)
Α Jazz Night at Rialto I Irenaeos Koullouras Trio and Guests
A jazz concert performed by talented musicians and acclaimed representatives of the world jazz stage.
Cypriot double-bass player Irenaeos Koullouras presents on Rialto’s stage his latest Piano Trio, with Christos Yerolatsitis on the piano, and Stelios Xydias on the drums.
The trio will also be joined by top soloists Gilad Atzmon on the saxophone and Amos Hoffman on the guitar. The climax of the concert will come with the appearance of two distinct voices and special guests, Tali Atzmon and Ioanna Troullidou.
Gilad Atzmon: Saxophone
Amos Hoffman: Guitar
Christos Yerolatsitis: Piano
Irenaeos Koullouras: Double bass
Stelios Xydias: Drums
Tali Atzmon: Voice
Ioanna Troullidou: Voice
Tickets: € 12 / 10
16 THU 20:30 (90’)
Steel Magnolias – Robert Harling | Satiriko Theatre
Steel Magnolias is a study on friendship outweighing loneliness and the human need for support and communication. Through this black comedy of twists and turns, Robert Harling gives his female characters a fierce and witty dialogue, full of empathy and compassion.
Six women in a beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, end of the ‘80s. Truvy Jones, the owner of the salon, which is also a refuge for women, hires young Annelle Dupuy-Desoto, trying to unlock her secrets. The first client then appears: it is Clairee Belcher, the town mayor’s widow, who has just left the memorial ceremony dedicated to her deceased husband, willfully giving her place to young Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, a bride-to-be on this very day.
The day is dedicated to the beauty care of the future bride, but also that of her mother, M’lynn Eatenton. Amidst a cheerful atmosphere of anticipation and anxiety for the wedding, young Shelby suffers a diabetic attack; yet she must not jeopardize her health since she is pregnant. The delightful news upset her mother who obsesses about the imminent risks. The setting builds up to a climax when flamboyant Boudreaux arrives.
Directing: Emilios Charalambides
Set design: Sosana Tomazou
Costumes: Eleni Tzirkalli
Lighting design: Karolina Spyrou
Music composition and soundscape: Dimitris Zachariou
Cast: Despina Bebedeli (Ousier Boudreaux), Annita Santorinaiou (Clairee Belcher), Popi Avraam (M’Lynn Eatenton), Sofia Kalli (Tuvy Jones), Myrsini Christodoulou (Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie) and Pambina Georgiou (Annelle Dupuy-Desoto).
Tickets: €15 / 12
17 FRI 20:30 (50’)
Machines in Lasting Motion - The Island Club
The Island Club, in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre and Light Cone, presents Machines in Lasting Motion, a screening of early 20th-century avant-garde films by Germaine Dulac, Ralph Steiner, Henri Chomette, Oswell Blakeston and Francis Bruguière. Through experimentations with light and movement, the works jointly explore the expressive potential of industrial technologies and machinery, drawing intricate parallels between the mechanical and the human.
The screening will be accompanied by live performances by Ichomagnetic Thoughts (Antonia Kattou and Stelios Antoniou), Kristia Michael and Pandelis Diamantides, who will be presenting original music in response to the films.
Programme curation: Androula Kafa
Films selected in dialogue with Miguel Armas, courtesy of Light Cone
Tickets: €10 / 5
19 SUN 20:30 (75’)
Mome Piaf – A tribute to Edith Piaf | Alliance Française de Limassol
A tribute to iconic French chanteuse, Edith Piaf, the tiny and delicate singer known as the “Little Sparrow”, who rose to prominence for her fiercely sensitive performance and deeply dramatic and expressive voice as the most representative singer of the French ‘chanson intime’ and ‘variété’. To this date, Edith Piaf’s music has been arranged by numerous artists and singers.
Alliance Française de Limassol pays tribute to Edith Piaf by presenting a repertoire of modern arrangements by Stavros Dritsas, through the exquisite voice of Vakia Stavrou and the participation of nine acclaimed Cypriot musicians. Songs such as La Vie en Rose, Rien de Rien, Padam Padam, L'accordeoniste will take the audience on a journey to Paris of the ‘50s and the romantic atmosphere of this uniquely nostalgic period.
Tickets: € 15 /10
24 - 26 FRI–SUN
Psychoanalysis and Cinema
The Cyprus Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Lab for Animation Research of Cyprus University of Technology and the Rialto Theatre host a tribute to ‘Psychoanalysis and Cinema’ aspiring to create a new framework in Cyprus, in which the form of cinema is analysing itself and psychoanalysis is being self-created. The event investigates the parallel reality created by psychoanalysis and cinema in order to process the complex conflicts encapsulated in the reality we know.
The organisers aspire to introduce the idea of an alternative way of viewing a film, which combines the art of cinema with the psychoanalytic theory and practice as a means of recognizing the unconscious language that expresses and defines us, while introducing a new pioneering approach for film events in Cyprus.
Four feature films and four short films will be screened and analysed by panels consisting of psychoanalysts and film theorists. A discussion with the audience will follow. A HAIKU workshop will complement the event, held by Blend the Space creativity centre.
PROGRAMME
Friday
15.30-18.30 Films screening and discussion
19.00-21.30 Film screening and discussion
Saturday
15.00-18.00 Film screening and discussion
18.00-21.00 Film screening and discussion
Sunday
18.30-21.30 Film screening and discussion
The films will be analysed by:
Nicos Synnos, Christos Panayiotou, Yiannis Christidis
Anna Ioannou: Psychologist-Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Kassiani Feleki: Psychiatrist-Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Yiannis Papadopoulos: Psychiatrist-Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Constantinos Argianas: Art historian, lecturer (CUT).
Tickets: € 5 (10 for 3 days)
26 SUN 11:00 (90’)
Peripato
MARIA VARNAKKIDOU, CONSTANTINA ANDREOU
This interactive soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future.
Curated by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou.
In Greek.
Tickets: € 5
28, 29 TUE, WED 20:30 (90’) ON STAGE
Mouthpiece – Kieran Hurley | Ferefono Theatre Group (15+)
A play by award-winning author Kieran Hurley, presented by Ferefono Theatre Group, for the first time in the Greek language. Directed by Maria Kyriakou and translated by Marios Constandinou.
Cast: Melanie Steliou and Andreas Daniel.
Edinburgh. A random encounter. Two completely different people. Declan inspires Libby to start writing again. Libby gives Declan hope. Declan tells Libby his story. Libby gives a voice to Declan. And what happens next…
Set & costume design: Constandina Andreou
Music: Panos Bartzis
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Photographer: Demetris Loutsios
Tickets: €15 / 12
31 FRI 20:30 (60’)
Memoirs of a Miner
Compania Flamenca Filippa
A dance-theatre performance inspired by Pantelis Varnava's book, which retrieves from the bowels of the earth the struggle of the Cypriot miners as they emerge with their pitch-black, unrecognizable faces, through sweat and blood, back into the light. Their cry mingles with that of the Andalusian workers of Spain who sing along "the struggle for survival".
Director, choreographer: Philippa Stylianoude
Dancers: Loizos Konstantinou, Skevi Serena, Philippa Stylianoude
Acting, narration: Christos Kyriakou (Palodias) & Evi Panikou
Music composer: Demetris Spyrou
Production: Compania Flamenca Filippa
Tickets: €15 / 12
April 2023
3 MON 20:30 (60’)
5 Lesbians eating a quiche I FlashArt 2023 I ON STAGE
Written by Andrew Hobgood and Evan Linder, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche premiered in the Greek language in the framework of theYard.Residency in December 2021, directed by Evita Ioannou. After 23 sold-out shows in both Limassol and Nicosia, the 5 Lesbians are presenting one final show at Rialto Theatre just before their new run in Athens in May 2023.
Set in 1956, the women of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein share a motto: ‘no men, no meat, all manners’. The five women, all self-described as widows, gather every year for a quiche competition. They all share a rather unusual passion for quiche, they love it more than anyone else who says they ever loved quiche. The five women meet in a church basement, which is also a bomb shelter, for the 1956 annual quiche breakfast competition. But the competition is abruptly disrupted when a nuclear explosion puts an end to the outside world. The five women may be the only surviving members of the human race. Stuck in the basement, they must confront their greatest fears, as well as their sexual identity. A black comedy with numerous absurdist elements. All for the love of quiche.
Writers: Andrew Hobgood & Evan Linder
Director: Evita Ioannou
Creative advisor: Constantina Peter
Cast: Nayia Anastadiadou, Niovi Charalampous, Yiolanda Christodoulou, Loukia Pieridis, Elena Kallinikou
Translation: Anna Demetriou
Set Design: Eleni Ioannou
Costumes: Alexandra Petsetakis
Lighting Design: Martinos Thalasetis
Graphics: Andonis Moushis
Makeup: Melanie Christou
Hair: Sophia Demetriou| riahairdesign
Production Assistant: Armando Diego Aparicio
Photos: Nepheli Papadaki
Producer: Centre of Performing Arts MITOS
Tickets: € 15 / 12
6, 7 THU, FRI 20:30 (75’)
An Oak Tree - Tim Crouch I ON STAGE
The Oak Tree is an actor’s worst nightmare. Every night, a different guest actor walks on stage without having rehearsed, nor seen nor ever read a word of the play they are going to present.
Together with Marina Argyridou, the actors Andreas Koutsoftas (6/4) and Lia Haraki (7/4) co-star in a daring theatrical challenge where the boundaries of reality are becoming constantly blurred.
Directed by: Andreas G. Andreou.
In Greek.
Tickets: € 15 / 12
8 SAT 20:30 (90’)
Tribute to Famagusta
A narrated performance set to music, a journey across occupied Famagusta and its history.
A selected repertoire of songs will be accompanying the narration through a heart-warming presentation of the history of Famagusta, reviving images and memories from the “regal city”.
With the participation of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot musicians.
Artistic supervision: Michalis Grigoriou
Narration/Texts: Petros Mandralis
«Epilogi» Cultural Movement Choir (Limassol)
«Othello» Polyphonic Choir (Famagusta)
Tickets: € 15 / 12
9 SUN 11:00 (90’)
Peripato
MARIA VARNAKKIDOU, CONSTANTINA ANDREOU
This interactive soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future.
Curated by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou
In Greek.
Tickets: € 5
9 SUN 8:00 & 20:00 (70’) ON STAGE
Before the German’s - Marta Barceló Ι HAMM Broductions
A modern stage play on Alzheimer’s disease, directed by Costas Silvestros, who paints on a “blank canvas” the unique universe of his heroine. Acclaimed Cypriot actress Popi Avraam takes the lead, accompanied by upcoming young actor Andreas Koutsoftas, who plays multiple roles penetrating in the heroine’s daily life.
Julia is a woman in her sixties who has long understood that something is not right with her memory. The medical exams confirm Julia’s suspicions: she suffers from Alzheimer’s, the same disease her mother suffered from. It is only a matter of time before she completely loses her personality and no longer recognizes her own sons.
She therefore decides to take her health and life into her own hands, trying to solve the problems emerging due to the disease, and settle any unfinished business with other people and institutions. She eventually decides to make a list setting out all those things that she really wishes to do while she is still able to make decisions for her own life. Her greatest wish is to enjoy every precious minute before the “German” occupies her mind forever.
Written by: Marta Barceló Femenías
Translation: Maria Hadjiemmanouil
Directing: Costas Silvestros
Cast: Popi Avraam, Andreas Koutsoftas
Set/Costumes: Yiorgos Yiannou
Lighting: Vasilis Petinaris
Music: Constantinos Lemesios
Assistant Director: Loizos Papageorgiou
Production coordination: Marios Mettis
Production: HAMM Broductions
Tickets: € 15 / 12
May 2023
2 TUE 20:30 (60’)
The Ugly One - Marius von Mayenburg
enacttheatre (15+) / On Stage
Enacttheatre presents the play The Ugly One by Mayenburg von Marius. Four actors read the play on stage, a scalpel-sharp comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead in life.
When Lette finds out how hideous he is, this prevents him from fulfilling his dreams. But suddenly everyone wants his face.
Idea: Dimitris Chimonas
Staged and performed by: Andria Zeniou, Elena Kallinikou, Marina Makri, Dimitris Chimonas
Sound Design: Emmidio Vasquez
Production Assistant: Alexandros Grigoriou
Photos: Stelios Kallinikou
In Greek.
Tickets: €12 / 10
3 WED 20:30 (70’)
Spring Concert
Marios Tokas Limassol Music School
A spring concert presented by the ensembles of Marios Tokas Limassol Music School.
With the participation of students who performed high in their solo instruments.
Tickets: € 5
5 FRI 20:30 (150’)
Three sisters - Anton Chekhov Ι THOC Main Stage
Written in 1900 and described by the author himself as a comedy, Three Sisters is a four-act existential drama about expectation, anticipation, and loss of hope. Directed by Athina Kasiou featuring an eclectic cast and crew.
In a small provincial garrison town, far from Moscow, the three sisters – Olga, Masha, and Irina – live together with their brother Andrey. Bogged down in the boredom of their everyday lives, they are trapped in recollections of a glorious past, making up stories and awaiting their return to Moscow, where their dreams can be fulfilled. As the future approaches, the possibility of change becomes more remote and their choices more constrained, while the dreams of youth dissolve, and excitement and passion for love and life is replaced by a sense of frustration.
Chekhov gives his characters the ultimate responsibility for their own lives. Inhibitions, fears, and inner intentions are betrayed not through what is said but rather through pauses, silences, hints and subtle humour.
With her modern directorial approach, Athina Kasiou recreates the Chekhovian universe for today, based on Eri Kyrgia’s new translation of an adaptation by Joel Horwood, and assisted by a superb team of distinguished creatives and actors.
With English and Turkish surtitles.
Tickets: €12 / 6 (supporters, unemployed, pensioners, large families upon display of relevant card, persons under 25 upon display of ID card).
7 SUN 11:00 (90’)
Peripato
Maria Varnakkidou, Constantina Andreou
This interactive soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future.
Curated by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou.
In Greek.
Tickets: € 5
7 SUN 20:30 (130’)
Fivos Delivorias Live
Following a series of successful sold-out performances in Athens and Thessaloniki, renowned Greek songwriter Fivos Delivorias, along with his collaborates, re-stage their fascinating show presenting his latest song releases (ANIME), at selected venues in Greece and Cyprus.
Accompanied by his brave crew (Sotiris Ntouvas, Kostis Christodoulou, Kostas Pantelis, Yoel Soto) and with the eclectic participation of Christos Lainas, the composer of one of Delivorias’ most successful songs, they all embark, from a parallel universe, on Rialto Theatre’s mystic world to discover what doesn’t seem to be there, what has always been around, what has never ceased to exist.
A music show based on Delivorias’ songwriting legacy, performed in an electric and heartwarming atmosphere.
Kostis Christodoulou - Keys
Sotiris Ntouvas - Drums
Kostas Pantelis - Guitars
Yoel Soto - Bass
Christos Lainas - Guitars, synth
Sound engineer: Yiannis Petrolias
Stage sound engineer: Nikos Kollias
Poster Artwork - photographs: Dimitris Makris
Tickets: € 25 / 20
9 TUE 20:30 (110’)
Sculpting souls and hearts.
A tribute to Cypriot music teachers and composers
The Music Coordination Office and the Sector of Culture and Sports of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth join forces with OELMEK (Organisation of Secondary School Teachers of Cyprus), paying tribute to Cypriot teachers and composers on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of OELMEK.The concert will present works by music teachers and renowned composers. With the participation of: Limassol Municipality String Orchestra, accompanied by an orchestra ensemble of teachers and the newly-established choir of OELMEK conducted by Andriana Sergidou, as well as 11 soloists.
With singers: Dimitris Fanis, Katerina Paraschou, Koulis Theodorou, Alexandros Alexandrou, Andreas Pantelides, Andreas M. Papadopoulos, Lefki Stylianou, Margarita Elia, Mariam Venizelou, Petros Kouloumis, Sophia Patsalidi.
Composers: Adonis Aletras, Alkinoos Ioannides, Andriana Sergidou, Andros Papapavlou, Georgia Neofytou, Yiorgos Theofanous, Yiorgos Karvellos, Yiorgos Hadjimarkou, Evagoras Karayiorgis, Iakovos Parpas, Costas Cacoyannis, Loukas Xenofontos, Manos Loizos, Marios Tokas, Michalis Violaris, Michalis Hadjiyiannis, Michalis Christodoulides, Spyros Spyrou, Solon Michaelides, Sokratis Terpizis, Fotis Mousoulides.
Conductor: Petros Stylianou
Organised by: Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth / OELMEK
Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Rialto Theatre, School Boards of Limassol
*Organised in the framework of the 70th anniversary of OELMEK (1953-2023)
Free entrance (booking in advance is required)
13 SAT 19:00 (180’)
Othello - William Shakespeare Ι NT Live
An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwean (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance).
She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s a refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost.
Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide. Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre...
This production contains racially offensive language and imagery, and depictions of mental and domestic abuse and violence, which some people may find upsetting. The production also contains strobe lighting and loud noises.
With Greek and English subtitles
Tickets: € 12 / 10
18 – 20 THU, FRI, SAT 21:00 (100’)
The Republic of Baklava – Anestis Azas
Following its staging at Athens Epidaurus Festival in 2021 in the framework of the 1821 Bicentennial tribute, where it received critical and audience acclaim, the surrealist comedy The Republic of Baklava is presented on Rialto Theatre’s stage.
Sophia and Fatih, from Greece and Turkey respectively, are two young people who met and fell in love with each other while studying in some Western country. When the couple decides to establish their business, a baklava shop located in the historical city of Mesolongi, they are forced to confront the traditional hostility of their countries and decide to declare their business “an independent state”. A romantic venture, doomed to fail.
A group of “researchers” are invited on stage to reconstruct the history of this tiny nation, its birth, conflict and heritage. Through a number of imaginary, surrealist and comic situations, the two young people are longing to become unshackled from the eternal stereotypes of their counties and to invent a new identity for themselves.
The Republic of Baklava is an unexpectedly hilarious theatre mockumentary, which, despite drawing inspiration from the 1821 Greek Revolution, is set in the modern-day, digital world, exploring issues of identity and politics through today’s perspective.
SYNOPSIS
The Republic of Baklava used to be a digital micronation, initially established in the long-suffering city of Mesolongi. It was established by businessman Fatih Demir and mathematician Sophia Papadaki. The couple were nominated president and vice-president of the new state during its first independence declaration. The Republic of Baklava has its own government, currency, and public services. Nonetheless, no country has ever officially recognized it as a sovereign state. Being considered by the Greek government as a ploy to collect funds from tourists and evade national taxation, the R.o.B. was taken over by the police on 26th July of the following year.
From the very first moment of its dissolution, the “Republic of Baklava” became the research subject of a documentary. Today, it is the “Eldorado” of fanatic cryptocurrency miners, since a large sum of money is still buried in its ashes.
CAST AND CREW
Concept, directing: Anestis Azas
Written by: Gerasimos Bekas, Michalis Pitidis, Anestis Azas
Assistant director-Dramaturgy consultant: Michalis Pitidis
Set design: Eleni Stroulia
Set design collaborator: Zaira Falirea
Set adaptation for amphitheatre: David Negrin, Georgios Kolios
Costumes: Vasilia Rozana
Lighting: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Lighting adaptation for amphitheatre: Dimitra Aloutzanidou
Music: Panayiotis Manouilidis
Choreography: Zoe Hadjiantoniou
Video: Dimitris Zachos
Photographs: Pinelopi Gerasimou
Production management: Kostis Panayiotopoulos
Cast: Cem Yigit Üzümoglu, Katerina Mavroyiorgi, Yiorgos Katsis, Gary Salomon
*With Greek and English surtitles
This Athens Festival 2021 performance is co-produced by Projector and LYKOFOS production companies.
Tickets: €18 / 12
22 MON 20:30 (100’)
Poetic Docs
CUT Fine Arts Dept
Screenings of short documentaries directed by third-year students of the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology.
From a flea market to a mysterious ritual; from a living kitchen to a city falling apart; from a student room to a stadium, the films present short non-arguments, which compose a poetic reality, as formed through the gaze of the future fine artists.
With English subtitles.
Free entrance (booking in advance is required)
24 & 25 WED, THU 20:30 (85’)
Phoenix: The others are you | Solo gia Treis
FlashArt 2023 15+
Two women and two men, guided by the gaze, the touch and words, are in pursuit of an answer to the question “Who am I?”, via other people defining their identity.
On this journey, they focus on their love instincts and on the freedom to be themselves, where there are no boundaries or faults in shaping and expressing love.
Concept/directing: Christodoulos Andreou
Dramaturgy: Lena Sitara
Movement: Panayiotis Tofi
Composer: Andreas Economides
Set/costumes: Yiorgos Yiannou
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Assistant director: Yiannis Minos
On stage: Varsia Adamou, Savvina Georgiou, Panayiotis Tofi, Yiorgos Chiotis and musician Andreas Economides.
Tickets: €15/12 (supporters, actors, students, soldiers, pensioners)
26 FRI 20:30 (100‘)
Premiere 6 Ι Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
In this stylistically diverse concert, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, under the experienced baton of Daniel Raiskin, will give the Cyprus premiere Maxim Berezovsky’s bright Symphony no. 19, a recently discovered classical gem. The symphony is complemented by Tchaikovsky’s lyrical and virtuosic Violin concerto, featuring CySO’s Concertmaster Wolfgang Schröder as the soloist. Pēteris Vasks’s impressive, sentimental work Musica Serena for string orchestra will also receive its Cyprus premiere. The concert will end in rustic bliss with Dvořák’s Czech Suite, a series of traditional Czech dances, suggestive of the Bohemian countryside.
Maxim Berezovsky: Symphony no. 19 in C major [Cyprus Premiere]
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for violin in D major, op. 35
Pēteris Vasks: Musica serena [Cyprus Premiere]
Antonín Dvořák: Czech Suite in D major, op. 39
Wolfgang Schröder violin
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Raiskin
Supporters: Rialto Theatre
Zone Α: €18 / 14, Zone Β: €13 / 10
Concession tickets are available to:
Students, soldiers, pensioners, large and five-member families on presentation of ID.
Free Entrance for people with disabilities.
June 2023
1 THU 20:30 (80’)
Red Peter I Ffrantz Kafka - an adaption of the works A Report to an Academy, The Judgment & Metamorphosis
Antilogos Theatre (12+)
Red Peter, speaking before a scientific conference, describes his former life as an ape. His story begins in a West African jungle, in which a hunting expedition shoots and captures him. Caged on a ship for his voyage to Europe, he finds himself for the first time without the freedom to move as he wishes to. Needing to escape from this situation, he studies the habits of the crew, and imitates them with surprising ease. Upon arriving in Europe, the ape realizes that he is faced with a choice between "the Zoological Garden or the Music Hall" and devotes himself to becoming human enough to become an able performer.
Directing & Dramaturgy: Neoklis Neokleous
Set and costumes: Savvas Mylona
Music and music teaching: Christina Argyri
Lyrics: Stavros Stavrou
Cast: Alexandros Martidis, Izel Seylani
Photos: Christos Avraamides
With Greek and Turkish surtitles
Tickets: € 13 / 10
3 SAT 20:30 (150’)
Mariza Rizou
Having recently launched her fourth personal album titled The village, singer and songwriter Mariza Rizou is excited to announce her 2023 summer tour across Greece and Cyprus.
“A couple of weeks ago, I released my fourth album titled “The village”. Together with my invaluable collaborators –part of my “village”– we are now preparing a live concert drawing inspiration from the path one must inevitably take in order to feel a sincere appreciation and gratitude for life, and for our very personal “Village”. I truly hope that our summer nights will feel like a sing-along on a roof, chatting, connecting with each other, laughing, crying and simply living. I am/We are looking forward to seeing you all! Mariza”
Markos Haidemenos: Arrangements/Piano/Hammond/Roads
Panayiotis Kostopoulos: Drums
Yiorgos Mouchtaris: Double bass/Synth Bass/Melodica/Rec
Angelos Aivazis: Guitar / Tzouras
Spyros Nikas: Saxophone / Clarinet
Yiorgos Tamiolakis: Cello
Agapitos Kataxakis & Ilias Karoumpalis: Sound
Philippos Trepas: Lighting
Production: Menta Art Events
Tickets:€25 / 20
7 WED 17:00 (45’) 7+
Hocus Pocus & Vacuum I Cie Phillippe Saire* Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus is mainly based on the power of images, their magic and the sensations they provoke. The very unique set design allows for a playful and magical exploration into a game of appearances and disappearances of both bodies and accessories.
The brotherly relationship that develops between the two dancers constitutes the show’s guiding thread, both through the hardships they create for themselves to toughen themselves up, as well as through the fantastic voyage that subsequently awaits them.
Hocus Pocus is one of the few contemporary dance works intended for a young audience. It seeks to challenge the imagination of its audience, while weaving a narrative that is open enough for each child to build his or her own story.
Concept and choreography: Philippe Saire
Choreography in collaboration with dancers: Philippe Chosson, Mickaël Henrotay-Delaunay
Dancers on tour: Philippe Chosson, Mickaël Henrotay-Delaunay, Ismael Oiartzabal
Stage device realization: Léo Piccirelli
Props and accessories: Julie Chapallaz, Hervé Jabveneau
Sound design: Stéphane Vecchione
Technical direction: Vincent Scalbert
Construction: Cédric Berthoud
Music: Peer Gynt, by Edvard Grieg
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Vacuum 20:30 (25’) 14+
Vacuum generates impossible images and fantastic paintings, an interplay of bodies appearing and disappearing between black holes and dazzling lights. This duo is the third part in a series of performances called Dispositifs, in convergence with visual arts. After Black Out (2011) and NEONS Never Ever, Oh! Noisy Shadows (2014), Vacuum explores a new aspect of our sensory perception through an optical illusion created with two neon tubes.
In Black Out, the movements of the dancers drew shapes in some black substance on stage while the audience watched from above. NEONS then staged a couple dancing in a world of lights and shadows. Now, with this third piece, Saire further explores the visual perception of movement. The result is lyrical and inspiring, as it moves forward through the history of art, from Renaissance paintings to photographic development.
This performance features a stage device that is easily transportable. Furthermore, it includes the same cast as NEONS, meaning both can be programmed together.
Concept & choreography: Philippe Saire
Choreography in collaboration with dancers: Philippe Chosson and Pep Garrigues
Stage device realization: Léo Piccirelli
Sound design: Stéphane Vecchione
Technical director: Vincent Scalbert
Construction coordinator: Antoine Friderici
Construction: Cédric Berthoud
Stage management: Mickaël Henrotay Delaunay
Production assistant: Constance von Braun
Video recording & teaser: Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
Photography & graphic design: Philippe Weissbrodt
Tickets for both performances: €8
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17 SAT 20:30 (60’) Living Room
Suzanne Dellal Centre / Inbal Pinto*
Αn imaginative, surreal and highly controlled duet exploring the unpredictable nature of our everyday reality. Presented as part of our 2023 Freespace Dance series showcasing the work of contemporary women choreographers, acclaimed Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto’s latest work Living Room is a captivating, whimsical piece exploring the unpredictability of our everyday lives.
Isolated in a sparsely furnished room –decorated with murals created by Pinto herself– a lone dancer questions her body and surroundings. In surreal and dream-like turns, objects take on a life of their own and the dancer’s limbs are compelled by unseen forces, twisting in disjointed puppet-like ways as she tries to master her body and her environment. When another person appears in the room, the push and pull of curiosity, fear and desire spark an intense duet and a new flight of imagination.
Delicate, precise and highly controlled, the choreography is a tour de force tailored to the techniques of two uniquely individual dancers, Pinto’s long-time collaborator Moran Muller and dancer/choreographer Itamar Serussi.
Living Room is Pinto’s first full-length duet work. Conceived during lockdown, initially as a solo piece, it features choreography, costumes and set design by Pinto and original music by cellist and singer Maya Belsitzman, who collaborated with Pinto on the acclaimed production Fugue. The work is an original production of the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre, Israel’s premier presenter of Israeli and international dance.
21 WED 20:30 (75’)
Lamenta
Siamese Cie / Koen Augustijnen & Rosalba Torres Guerrero*
Premiere: Greece 15/06/2021 at Athens and Epidaurus Festival
World premiere: 05/07/2021 at Festival d’Avignon
followed by a tour across Europe in 2022 and 2023
In their new creation, Lamenta, choreographers Koen Augustijnen and Rosalba Torres Guerrero (Siamese Cie) continue their shared artistic journey, exploring how our basic, emotional experiences as humans are always embodied and how they can be articulated in physical theatre and dance.
Lamenta focuses on the different emotional states that we experience when we grief our losses. In all cultures, rituals of mourning existed in which song and dance were used to express these emotions. We need to perform these emotions and share them collectively in order to let them go. In our contemporary society a lot of these rituals have been lost, but they still survive in specific regions and cultures, such as Epirus in the North of Greece.
Main source of inspiration for Lamenta, are the miroloi from Epirus, Greek songs of mourning that are not only used at funerals, but also when somebody leaves the family to marry or to migrate. One August night, in Kastania village, near Ioannina, Koen and Rosalba had an almost transcendental experience, when they heard a band of young musicians combining traditional music of Epirus with modern sounds. They also met the singer and composer Xanthoula Dakovanou who is the artistic director of the Kerasovo festival. With Xanthoula as musical director, a group of fifteen Greek musicians gathered to create new recordings of the Greek laments. The musicians included renowned Epirus clarinetist Niko Filippidis and his band, Alexandros Rezopoulos, numerous musicians of the contemporary, Greek ethno-jazz scene as well as Xanthoula herself as a singer. The Greek musicians were joined by the French jazz musician and flute virtuoso Magic Malik. The musical dramaturgy of Lamenta starts from the revival of the miroloi in its original form and glides towards more contemporary musical forms, influenced by post-rock and jazz.
Torres Guerrero and Augustijnen bring together a group of nine contemporary Greek dancers, all highly skilled in a diversity of dance techniques. Together they will explore how the energetic -both earthy and transcendental- qualities of the Greek music and dances can unfold and nourish a contemporary creation. To what extent is traditional dance permeable to other influences? How do we relate to the past and tradition? How can traditional dance be represented on stage today in a way accessible to contemporary audiences and through an intercultural perspective? As in the case of miroloi, transcribing tradition on contemporary dance means letting go: something must be lost or change form in order for a new dance vocabulary to emerge.
As such, Lamenta is a continuation of the journey Augustijnen and Guerrero embarked upon with the highly acclaimed Badke (2013) in which they took the traditional Arabic ‘dabkeh’ dance as their starting point.
22, 23 THU, FRI 20:30 (80’) ON STAGE
Performing Biographies
Lia Haraki
Associate Artist Residence Scheme
Spanning this year the 3rd edition of the ‘Associate Artist’ programme, the Rialto Theatre has selected for 2023 acclaimed Cypriot artist Lia Haraki.
In the framework of the Programme, a series of workshops take place, addressed to performing artists and performers who wish to explore the autobiographical solo as a genre.
At the end of the workshops, the participants’ short solos will be presented on Rialto’s stage.
Tickets:€ 5
26 – 30 MON - FRI
Rialto Residency
Michalis Kouloumis @ Platres
Internationally acclaimed violinist and composer Michalis Kouloumis will be the artistic director of Rialto Residency 2023, featuring twelve young and talented Cypriot musicians who will be selected via auditions.
The Rialto Residency practice will focus on the existing repertoire, as well as on the composition of new Cypriot music.
With the cooperation of the Platres Community Council.
27 TUE 20:30 (45’)
Migrena2x2 I Yotam Peled* 16+
Can an isolated, confined body transcend, and travel beyond space and time? Can the subconscious become a vessel for these journeys?
migrena2X2 is a hybrid solo performance, which exists in a surreal space made of fragments of memory, introducing suspension and object manipulation into movement. It is an abstract, contemporary interpretation of the story of biblical Jonah, aiming to embody the notion of prophecy by exploring the subconscious, confronting traumas and fantasies.
The burden of the performer is embodied by kettlebells, and its shedding unfolds through a ritual - between a prayer and a rave. An intensification of wild movement patterns causes the body to slowly deconstruct, decompose, melt and surrender to awaken an abstract material, a collective of limbs and organs devouring the space, with no clear objective besides obeying the sensations that pass through it.
This unleashing of instinctive, queer and primitive totality, which cannot exist outside the ecstatic state, is a call to become an entity, which functions beyond the intellectual restrictions of society. The body of the performer, being pushed to extreme intensity and disintegration, travels the space with dexterity and detail, emancipating hidden spaces and surfaces, reaching catharsis and eventually self-recognition.
Choreography & Performance: Yotam Peled Communication: Laia Montoya / TINA agency
Soundtrack Design: Yotam Peled
The project is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Collider AIR / Contemporary Calgary.
29 THU 20:30 (60’)
Forever | Tabea Martin* 8+
What if we all lived forever? The dream of a life after death has always inspired humans. Numerous fairy tales and legends deal with death, resurrection or eternal life. Greek mythology created immortal gods, animals, monsters and giants with supernatural powers. What do children think about life and death, about dying and immortality? To what extent may and can children be confronted with this topic?
There are many ways to make yourself immortal: starting a family, creating artistic works, leaving a political legacy. Limited by our own death, we try in various ways to create a continuity that remains once our own life ends.
Children have a gift of dealing with topics in a playful manner. Through interviews, games and workshops, the ideas and fantasies of children between the ages of 8 and 12 about life and death, about dying and immortality were awakened. The resulting material was then translated by five professional dancers. Forever creates a world of immortality in which creatures are brought to life by children’s fantasies. A visual, joyful, sensitive and moving journey through a visual language about what would be if we all lived forever.
Forever is part of a trilogy of productions by Tabea Martin on the topic of transience. This Is My Last Dance (premiere February 2018) deals with the transience of one’s own body, with the experience of the final state. Forever playfully looks at our ideas of a life after death, the desire for an infinite life. In 2020, the project Nothing Left will follow, in which the death of others is to be illuminated and investigated.
Choreography: Tabea Martin
Choreographic assistance: Laetitia Kohler
Dance: Tamara Gvozdenovic, Emeric Rabot, Benjamin Lindh, Daniel Staaf, Miguel do Vale
Stage design: Veronika Mutalova
Costumes: Mirjam Egli
Lighting design: Simon Lichtenberger
Musical accompaniment: Donath Weyeneth
Dramaturgy: Irina Müller, Moos van den Broek
Dramaturgy assistance: Nadja Rothenburger
Outside eye: Sébastian Nübling
Mediation: Dominique Cardito
Video documentation: Heta Multanen
Photo documentation: Nelly Rodriguez/ Heta Multanen
Production management: Franziska Ruoss
*Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 2023
Organised by: Deputy Ministry of Culture (Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture) and Rialto Theatre
Tickets: €8 (€30 for all performances)
Free entrance to students, soldiers, pensioners and dance professionals
Free transportation from Nicosia
The following performances will be presented at Nicosia Municipal Theatre as part of the Festival:
A line, a gaze, a horizon I Alexandra Waierstall (14/6) &
Lamenta I Siamese Cie / Koen Augustijnen & Rosalba Torres Guerrero (19/6)
July 2023
11, 12 TUE, WED 20:30 (40’)
Grandmothers I Milena Ugren Koulas Χ
Created in the framework of the Terpsichore programme 2023 - Deputy Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre.
For the past few years, Milena and the dancers she collaborates with, are investigating how trauma affects us and the way traumatic experiences shape our communication and relation with others, as well as our perception of our surroundings. As a continuation of this research and choreographic work on trauma, in the new piece Grandmothers, Milena and the dancers explore the ability to recover from the trauma, ways to cope with it, adapt and modify ourselves well in the face of adversity. In Grandmothers, we try to discover what resilience is.
Milena Ugren Koulas is an artist who, in collaboration with her husband musician Georgios Koulas, has been working in the field of contemporary dance and choreography for the past 20 years. Their choreographies have been presented in Cyprus and in many European countries. For the past few years, in collaboration with the team Stylish Junkies, Milena has been choreographing, and organising workshops and classes for professional dancers. Also, for the last couple of years, she has been a guest teacher at Comma Master for choreography at Codarts and Fontys dance academies in Holland.
Choreographer: Milena Ugren Koulas
Dancers: Eleni O’Keefe, Julia Brendle, Elena Gavriel, Katerina Tylliridou, Magda Argyridou, Samantha Moysi, Julie Charalambidou, Anna Nikolaou
Music: George Koulas and Dafni Koulas
Tickets: € 8 / 6
14 FRI 21:00 (75’)
Music for Shepherds and Sultans – Michalis Kouloumis* Μ
Music from Cyprus and classical music of Constantinople / Contemporary Modal Music.
Michalis Kouloumis and Tristan Driessens embark on what is just the beginning of a closer partnership, with Catalan multi-instrumentalist Miriam Encinas joining them on frame drums and pithkiavlin. Their repertoire organically fluctuates from original compositions in classical Ottoman style to anonymous rural dances of Cyprus. With this choice of repertoire and especially with their way of interpreting it, Michalis Kouloumis, Tristan Driessens and Miriam Encinas bridge a gap between classical and folk music. Compositions such as Isfahan Saz Semaisi or Köyde Sabah somehow reflect how classical music has always been deeply inspired by folk music legacies. Originally rooted in daily life’s rituals, folk traditions draw their expressiveness from a cyclical journey of constant transmission and renewal, which defines their actual legitimacy through time and space.
Michalis Kouloumis - violin, voice
Tristan Driessens - oud
Miriam Encinas - percussion, dilruba, pithkiavlin
16 SUN 20:30 (70‘) @Heroe’s Square
Pancyprian Choral Encounter Ι Epilogi Cultural Movement
A Choral Encounter bringing together choirs and young music lovers from every part of Cyprus. Conductors, choristers, music teachers and children will have a unique opportunity to attend experiential workshops led by prominent conductors/musicians under the general thematic title: Polyphony and Improvisation through Tradition. A representative from the European Union of Choirs - Europa Cantat will give a talk about the opportunities offered by the organisation to the choral community.
Workshop – For adult choirs:
An improvisational approach of the polyphonic traditional song.
Workshop – For children’s choirs and students of conservatories and music schools:
Traditional song: movement, accompaniment, choral approach.
Led by: Natalia Lambadaki (Greece) and Marleen de Boo (Belgium)
The outcome of the workshops and the synergy between conductors, professors and choristers will be presented to the public upon completion of the classes on Sunday 16 July at Heroes Square.
Free entrance
18 TUE 21:00 (89’)
Raoul Taburin Ι Pierre Godeau (France, 2018)**
From the cartoonist of beloved Petit Nicolas, Jean-Jacques Sempé, the film Raoul Taburin tells a fascinating story of friendship and love, suitable for all the family! In an idyllic village in the French Alps, Raoul Taburin, the owner of the local bicycle shop has a well-hidden secret. A film about love, friendship, kindness, difficulties and obstacles, fears and insecurities – in other words, the “training wheels” of the bicycle riding life’s ups and downs. No matter how many times we fall, we must always find a way of getting back up.
Directed by: Pierre Godeau
Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Edouard Baer, Suzanne Clement
19 WED 21:00 (90’)
Monsieur Doumani *
Monsieur Doumani will present music from their four albums, as well as new unreleased pieces.
The multi-award-winning trio has been impressing audiences worldwide for the last ten years or so with music strongly rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Their music has been extensively presented on worldwide media, and they participated in the most celebrated festivals such as ESNS, Womex, Womad, Sziget, Trans Musicales, to name only a few. While their lineup may sound unusual for a three-piece (tzouras-small bouzouki, trombone, acoustic guitar), Monsieur Doumani are using electronics, effects and loop pedals to venture into a world that is refreshing and exciting. Their fourth album released by the acclaimed Glitterbeat Records pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments, multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.
During their 9-year career Monsieur Doumani have received numerous awards including the ‘Best Group’ Award in Songlines Music Awards 2019 and the ‘Critics Award’ in Andrea Parodi World Music Awards. They have also been awarded with the German Records Critics Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) for their album Angathin (2018), which has also been awarded as 'Best album of the year 2018' in the Transglobal World Music Charts.
Antonis Antoniou - tzouras, vocals, electronics
Demetris Yiasemides - trombone, flute
Andys Skordis - guitar, loops, percussion, vocals
21 FRI 21:00 (121’)
Shoplifters Ι Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan, 2018) 12+ **
A “whispering” little film with a huge heart, made by the acclaimed Japanese humanistic director, Kore-eda Hirokazu. Winner of Cannes Film Festival’s ‘Palme d’Or’ and Japan’s official entry for the Academy Awards’ ‘Best International Film’, Shoplifters gives an alternative view of the “stolen moments” in life and cinema.
After one of their shoplifting sessions, a father and his son come across a little girl shivering in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, the wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is financially struggling, they seem to be living happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
Directed by: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Cast: Sakura Ando, Lily Franky, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi
22 SAT 21:00 (75’)
Rumba Attack * Μ
Rumba Attack perform original instrumental material, as well as selected covers in their distinctive Flamenco-Rumba style, blended with sounds from Greek and Middle Eastern origins. After 10 years of countless performances, this year, Rumba Attack proudly present their debut album entitled Harmonics (2023), which consists of eleven tracks, nine of which are original compositions and the remaining two are covers of known Greek songs. Their energetic performance at Rialto will include instrumentals including Open Sea, Inspired and Fire, as well as traditional Greek vocal songs performed in their own unique style.
Constantinos Lyras - guitar
Memnon Arestis - guitar
Savvas Thoma - cajon, vocals
23 SUN 21:00 (110’)
My Wonderful Wanda (Switzerland, 2020) **
Thirty-five-year-old Polish Wanda looks after Joseph (70), a stroke-ridden patriarch, at his wealthy family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock, and also helps his wife Elsa (75). The youngest son, Gregi (28), likes her very much. The work is poorly paid but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant. A bittersweet, cynical comedy, awarded at Tribecca Film Festival.
Directed by: Bettina Oberli
Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Marthe Keller, André Jung
24 MON 21:00 (80’)
Gaba Project Feat. Nicolas Tryphonos * Μ
In this new work, Gaba Project will present their own compositions, and share with the audience new soundscapes resulting from the combination of handpan, lyra and double bass. The compositions are based on melodic lines, which develop both in a rhythmic and improvisational way during the performance, always following a structure and, at the same time, leaving freedom for dialogue between the three musicians. Although the style (tempo, rhythm, scale-makam) of each composition is unique, creating space and time for improvisation during the performance is a key element. In addition to their own compositions, they will also present a small part of arrangements of musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean region (Armenia, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria), in a completely fresh mood, even transforming their rhythm. The use of mixed rhythms, scales and makams together with strong changes in dynamics, are key elements characterising the band’s music.
Gaba Project combine for the first time globally the handpan and percussions with lyra. The handpan is a contemporary instrument with a “mystic” sound, whereas the lyra comes from the well-established Cretan musical tradition. The duet focuses on experimenting with new musical approaches (arrangement, composition, soundscapes), both with the instruments and with their own compositions. Improvisation is a core element of the duet that comes from the musicians’ varying musical knowledge and experiences, creating new perspectives.
Vasilis Vasiliou: handpan, percussion
Christina Polycarpou: lyra with sympathetic strings
Nicolas Tryphonos: double bass
25 TUE 21:00 158’)
Tár Ι Todd Field (USA, 2022) 12+ **
Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, a woman at the peak of her career. Having conquered every prize, distinction and position one possibly could, she is about to record live Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and, at the same time, release her autobiography. Dynamic and demanding, challenging and unrepentant, competitive and egocentric, Lydia Tár has the charm of a real genius who is well-aware of the magnitude and value of her talent. She has constructed herself, her life, success and views around music, living a well-protected life with her partner and young daughter in their majestically minimal house in Berlin and her exquisite office in the Philharmonic – if and when she is not travelling around the world with her devoted assistant who has her own ambitions.
Directed by: Todd Field
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong.
26 WED 21:00 (90’)
Origins - Odysseas Toumazou*
Guitarist and composer Odysseas Toumazou will be releasing his second personal album this summer, titled ORIGINS, consisting of original compositions driven by improvisation. Blending the traditional Cypriot music with elements of jazz, these compositions are transformed into an idiom that is both intense and authentic, having its own personal sound colour.
“These compositions have been pulled into creation by the calling of my identity and the sounds of my origins; timeline of existence that traces each living being to the moment of its creation; the roots of lineage run deep within each being tracing back to each moment in time.
This album identifies and commemorates everything that made me what I am today.
Identity is rooted in origins. To know who you are, you must know where you come from. To evolve, is to embrace and commemorate the passage of time and create new memories, mixing the knowledge of the old with the potential of the new.”
Marios Menelaou - doublebass
Vassilis Philippou - percussion, vocal
Odysseas Toumazou - compositions, guitar
28 FRI 21:00 (90’)
Lola and the Sea Ι Laurent Micheli (Belgium, 2019) 12+ **
Just when 18-year-old transgender Lola learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, embark on a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They soon realise that the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were expecting.
Director: Laurent Micheli
Cast: Mya Bollaers, Benoît Magimel, Els Deceukelier, Sami Outalbali
In collaboration with: Queer Wave and Rialto Gen.
30 SUN 21:00 (90’)
Whiskydenker | Pogo Swing Teadance *
Brass band and disco!? German poetry and hot jazz!? Circus orchestra and punk!? Impossible to find a pigeonhole for the band Whiskydenker. Some say they reconcile Meute and Bukahara with Hildegard Knef, others just call it pogo swing.
Maybe it doesn't matter, because fortunately the music of the Whiskydenker is always charming, cheerful and wonderfully danceable. Maybe it's exactly this dance on the razor's edge that brings rock'n'rollers, swing dancers, jazz nerds and party kids together at the Whiskydenkers' concerts. Maybe that's exactly the sound of the new 20’s.
Florian Wehse: vocals, trumpet
David Riaño Molina: banjo
Oliver Saar: tubax
Philipp Rittmannsperger: drums
*18th Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival @Heroes Square, Free Entrance
This 18th edition of Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival is dedicated to the memory of Angelina Nicolaidou, a close and beloved collaborator of the Rialto Theatre. An inspiring, prominent conductor, Angelina lit the path of many young people, generously performing and showcasing the work of talented composers.
** Rialto Summer Cinema @ SEK Parking Place, €8
All films will be screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles.
September 2023
13 - 16 WED - SAT 20:00 (130’)
The Play That Goes Wrong I Alpha Cyprus (6+)
ALPHA Cyprus presents the Olivier-awarded farce The Play That Goes Wrong. The most talked-about play of the year, staged in more than 30 countries, comes to the Rialto Theatre for a limited number of shows.
ALPHA Cyprus presents the Olivier-awarded farce The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. In the most talked-about play of the year, a group of amateur, non-talented actors attempt to put on a murder mystery: “The Murder at Hammerson’s Residence”. The misleading set, the actors’ scarce talent and the technical staff’s lack of experience will all lead them to awkward situations on stage – disasters which the so-called actors will attempt to conceal. Laughter is guaranteed – yet not as much as the physical integrity of the cast.
Are you intrigued by disasters? Are mistakes your secret hobby? Do you feel like freeing the oppressed criminologist you were hiding inside? If the answer is yes, then the amazing cast will take you on a hilarious ride: The Play that Goes Wrong! Book your tickets timely: this will be the only thing that won’t be going wrong! In Greek.
Text adaptation, directing: Fotis Georgidis
Written by: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields.
CAST: Marios Dimitriou, Fotis Georgidis, Sophocles Kaskaounias, Andreas Tselepos, Anna Yiagiozi, Ioanna Lambropoulou and Vasilis Charalambous
Crew played by: Constantinos Vasiliou, Sophocles Sophocleous
Set design: Elena Terepei
Set construction: Get Set
Technical support: SY STAGE
Assistant director: Theodora Andreou
Costume design: Frantzeska Frantzeskou
Movement: Eva Kalomiri
Lighting design: Yiorgos Lazoglou
Production management: Andreas Vasiliou, Michalis Argyrou, Klitos Klitou
Tickets: € 20 /15
17 SUN 19:00 (120’)
Andre Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert - Love is All Around
André’s annual feel-good event is back this summer, exclusively in cinemas!
On September 17, The King of the Waltz will present Love is All Around, a brand-new concert filled with uplifting music, spectacular performances, and romantic waltzes from his hometown Maastricht.
Along with his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra, André teams up with the charming Gospel Choir and special surprise guests, bringing you and your loved ones a refreshing, romantic, fun party making you feel that love is all around!
Tickets: € 15 / 10
20 WED 20:30 (60‘)
Performing Silence – Petros Konnaris Ι FlashArt 2023
There is something very touching in spending time to observe small details and figure out what else lies underneath the surface. To observe the hands travelling to each other, to listen to a deep breath below the mask, to accompany one’s journey to preciousness and _______.
Performing Silence is a research project exploring how to listen to something subtle that is present but not shouting, a softness that is usually oversaturated by noise and loudness.
Two years after the first presentations in Nicosia (at ex Drive Drive) and the 8hour performance at the Cyprus Pavilion Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances of the 17th Architecture Venice Biennale, the ten performers meet all together at the Rialto Theatre in a process of exploring the density of silence, as well as activating the silent and unseen moments.
During this 1h, you are invited to walk around, pay attention to the silence and those unseen moments, wait, take a deep breath, listen, and be active even when you are silent and standing still.
Artistic Direction: Petros Konnaris
With: Eleana Alexandrou, Georgia Andreou, Pascal Caron, Athina Georgiou, Annie Khoury, Marilena Kyriacou, Kalia Maliali, Arianna Marcoulides, Despina Michaelidou, Alexis Vassiliou
Dramaturgy: Rodia Vomvolou
Sound design: Panos Bartzis
Visual Art Installation: Kyriakos Theocharous
Process-based artefacts: Evagoras Vanezis, Petros Konnaris
Photo by: Pavlos Vrionides
* In the frame of the performance, the book “Performing Silence: Process based artefact #3” will be sold at a special price.
Supported by Youth Board of Cyprus and the Rialto Theatre.
The project was funded by the 2021 Terpsichori Programme of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth.
Tickets:€ 12 / 10
22 – 24 FRI – SUN
Stand-up Comedy Festival
Stantar Kkomety in collaboration with Rialto Theatre will be hosting the first three-day stand-up comedy festival, under the artistic direction of Yiorgos Kyriakou.
A three-day event dedicated to the art of stand-up comedy, featuring stand-up shows, music comedies, and performances for all ages. Some of the most prominent stand-up comedians of Cyprus will be introduced for the first time on Rialto’s historic stage in the frame of two performances.
The festival will open on Friday 22nd September 2022, at 20:30 on the specially restructured Heroes’ Square introducing an open-mic contest, followed by a party. The winner of the Open-Mic contest will claim a place in the official three-day program.
Throughout the festival, outdoor canteens will be selling food and drinks.
The festival will culminate with 2 line-up shows taking place inside the Theatre featuring the most established comedians the island has to offer.
The daily festivities will conclude at Sousou bar for drinks, music, and a get-together with the comedians, as well as impromptu open-mic sessions. The three-day events will be wrapped up with a podcast on Rialto’s stage on Sunday 24th of September.
Alongside the shows, the Stand-Up Festival will offer a unique opportunity for the audience to attend free intensive seminars and open discussions with professional stand-up comedians.
The indoor shows and the Open mic contest will be addressed to a 16+ audience, while the Stand-up show at Heroe’s Square on Saturday will be family-friendly.
Friday 22 September @Heroes’ Square
(Free Entrance)
19:00 – Festival Opening
20:30 – 22:00 Open-mic contest
22:00 – 00:00 DJ set
*After 00:00 the festival will relocate to Sousou Bar.
Saturday 23 September
18:00 – Opening at Heroes’ Square
18:30 – 19:30 Stand-up on the square
19:30– 20:30 Beats and memes my Alejjos
21:00 – 23:00 Stantar Kkomedy line up inside the theatre
23:00 – 00:00 Outdoor party and discussion
*After 00:00 the festival will continue at Sousou Bar.
Sunday 24 September
16:00 – 18:00 Seminar in the Theatre
18:00 – 19:00 MrKyprits live
19:00 – 21:00 Stantar Kkomety line up inside the theatre
21:00 – 21:30 Break
21:30 – 23:00 “After the Show” Podcast (free entrance but you need to prebook your tickets here)
23:00 – 00:00 Outdoor party and discussion
*After 00:00 the festival will continue at Sousou Bar.
The festival will be only in the Greek language.
Tickets: € 12/10 (€ 20/15 Festival pass)
27 WED 20:30 (75‘)
Dinos Christianopoulos | Antonis Boskoitis
Dinos Christianopoulos, a prominent Greek poet and a man of contradictions, becomes the subject of the latest play by journalist, filmmaker and writer Antonis Boskoitis unveils the two sides of the Greek contemporary poet and novelist. A theatrical staging of an epic interview given by Dinos Christianopoulos to Antonis Boskoitis in 2013, and which caused a sensation when it was first published the day after the poet’s death.
Charis Fleouras plays the lead, an actor working in Theatre since 1998 (having collaborated with directors such as Repas-Papathanasiou, Kraounakis, Tsianos, Kalbari, Kalogridis et al), who attended drama seminars for three consecutive years under the tutorship of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Antonis Boskoitis will be accompanying the actor on stage, in the role of the poet’s interviewer.
Directed and written by: Antonis Boskoitis
Cast: Charis Fleouras, Antonis Boskoitis
Music: Yiorgis Christodoulou
Singing: Pantelis Theocharidis (music composed by Yiorgis Christodoulou, song written by Thomas Korovinis)
Tickets: € 15 / 12
30 SAT 11:00 (70’)
Let’s save music… I Cultural movement Epilogi (4+)
Cultural movement Epilogi invites you to an interactive workshop with four hands piano music.
A musical adventure with a haunted castle, a piano which only plays spooky music and a family of witches, monsters, and ghosts.
Children audience will have the chance to solve music quizzes, open closed doors and help the music escape.
Concept, script: Corina Vassiliou
On stage animator: Penny Finiri
Piano: Gergana Georgieva, Corina Vassiliou
Projection illustration: Stavri Symeonidou
Graphics: Stefani Yianni.
Tickets: € 8 /6
30 SAT 20:30 (45’) On Stage
MOS - Open House Festival I Dance House Lemesos
Two performers enter into discourse with a disparate series of images and seek to impart their own transcription in space. The body and (micro-)movements co-exist with curious objects and materials to act as a means of sound production. The material is intensified, exploded, paused, repeated, and distorted in order to bolster the sound experience. The performers become the intermediaries between archive and audience, offering up their own personal takes, composing their own sound adaptation of a non-linear cinematic script, and choosing, at the end of the day, what could possibly be heard.
Within the scenic formulation, individual pieces of information are teased out of the reused materials, thus inviting audience members to generate new connections and interrelations. They find themselves successively transformed into listeners of a makeshift and heterogeneous soundtrack that unfolds before them.
MOS is a scenic game operating in among the conspicuous and hidden relations that exist between movement, sound, and image, amplifying narratives that arise out of the mutual interplay and co-existence of seemingly incongruous archival sources, thus bringing visibility to elements that cannot easily be seen, or heard.
Concept & Choreography: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Performance: Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Audio Technical Support & Live Sound Design: Danis Chatzivasilakis
Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Tour Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou, Tzanos Mazis
Video Engineer: Konstantinos Asimakopoulos
Set & Costume Design: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Video Editing: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Wooden Constructions: Miltos Athanasiou
Poster Design: Bois Futuri
Photography: Pinelopi Gerasimou
Production Management: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Tour Management: Cultόpια & Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Tour Coordinator: Christina Liata (Onassis STEGI)
Produced by Onassis STEGI.
Tickets: € 10 / 8
October 2023
7 - 13 SAT – FRI 20:30
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus - ISFFC 2023 (18+)
A kaleidoscope of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary shorts, that will catch the eye of every film aficionado, showcasing the diverse character of the local and international film community. The Rialto’s screen will be hosting the ISFFC for the 13th consecutive year, under the artistic direction of Ioakim Mylonas and Alexia Roider.
Parallel events and screenings complete the ISFFC programme including, for the second year running, the TSFM – What’s the story? (9–13 October) international intensive short film development writing workshop promoted by Torino’s Talents and Short Film Market (TSFM). The workshop will be offering screenwriting guidance, knowledge and tools to eight selected film directors and screenwriters from Cyprus and the neighbouring countries.
The festival is an annual institutional event of the Deputy Ministry of Culture (Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture) organised in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre. With English and Greek subtitles.
Free entrance / Booking in advance is required.
19 THU 20:30 (75’)
Vakia / Vakia Stavrou
«A breathtaking, delicate voice that enchants the listener with its vast beauty». (Radio France, Bertrand)
Vakia Stavrou, a cosmopolitan artist having travelled the world and performed at some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals (Les Suds a Arles, Mostra Viva del Mediterrani) presents her latest, much-anticipated album. Α repertoire including her most popular interpretations, enjoyed by the local and international audience alike, as well as her own much-loved songs, which she introduced to her loyal concertgoers, alongside a selection of songs that she wrote herself as a composer and songwriter.
Guided by the emotional and vibrating tone of her voice, and accompanied by the classical guitar of Cypriot virtuoso instrumentalist, Socrates Leptos and the delicate melodies of cellist Stelios Pittas, Vakia Stavrou will take the audience on an enchanting journey brimming with light and magic: onto another dimension, an alternative space-time, a unique experience. The much-anticipated new album by internationally-acclaimed Cypriot singer is simply and concisely titled under her own name: Vakia.
Tickets: € 15 / 10
20 FRI 20:30 (75‘)
His Mother | Antilogos Theatre
Based on true events, a documentary play written by Michalis Papadopoulos and directed by Alexia Papalazarou.
The director unfolds the story of her mother, of her own family, of her brothers Kyriakos and Sotiris, their loss, her brother’s murder, while unveiling how such a death can affect the lives of those left behind. By her side stands her mother and main character, Agathoniki, who, in the midst of her mourning, describes Cyprus the way she experienced it: from the British occupation until the tragic days of the Turkish invasion.
In an era of conflict and strife, with the scourge of racism, fascism, nationalism and political fanaticism returning more fiercely, Antilogos Theatre introduces a true story that everyone knows, yet no one talks about.
Written by: Michalis Papadopoulos
Directed by: Alexia Papalazarou
Set and costume design: Edouardos Georgiou
Lighting design: Vassilis Peteinaris
Music: Giorgos Karvellos
Assistant stage designer: Monica Hatzivasiliou
On stage: Alexia Papalazarou, Christina Christofia, Iliana Kakkoura, Myrsini Christodoulou
Tickets: € 15 / 12
21 SAT 20:30 (120’)
A concert tribute to Loukianos Kilaidonis
A lively group of friends and musicians set out on a one-of-a-kind concert following in the footsteps of the “lonely cowboy of Athens”: the independent, unconventional, and undeniably inventive Greek composer and songwriter, Loukianos Kilaidonis.
Fresh performances of Kilaidonis' still-relevant songs make up the repertoire of the album with the same title “Thank you, Loukianos!”. The band will visit Cyprus this time, a place cherished by Kilaidonis himself, hosting an exceptional tribute to the leader and instigator of our first parties, the singer who inspired and motivated our craziest plans!
With: Panos Mouzourakis, Manolis Famellos, Maria Kilaidoni, Christos Papadopoulos
Musicians: Stephanos Danielides (piano, accordion), Manos Loutas (bass), Vangelis Tsimblakis (drums).
Tickets: € 25 / 20
22 SUN 10:30 & 12:00 (90‘)
Peripato | Maria Varnakkidou, Constantina Andreou
The Heroes’ Square interactive soundwalk is now accessible to the English-speaking audience. All texts have been translated into English, offering the opportunity to the international audience of Limassol to enjoy this one-of-a-kind walk-through.
A journey across time, an imprint of memory, an experience of sound and visual images, conceived by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou in the framework of Rialto’s Associate Artist Residence Scheme.
A soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future. Stories from the past, monuments and buildings that have been changing over the course of time, as well as a glance at the future of the Square. Amidst all these, the Rialto becomes the protagonist, a theatre that has been shaping a cultural identity, constituting a significant chapter in the history of the emblematic Heroes’ Square. Soundwalk translation in English: Diamanto Stylianou & Despina Pirketti. Part of Limassol Art Walks (https://limassolartwalks.com).
Free entrance / Booking in advance is required.
25 WED 20:30 (75’) On Stage
Albert Camus Today I Vivliotropio
November 2023 marks the 110th anniversary of birth of French writer and philosopher Albert Camus. On this occasion, Vivliotropio hosts a tribute to Albert Camus, to a “truly and undeniably free man” according to Kostis Papayiorgis, a personality combining the distancing of Stoic philosophers with humility and sensuality. Literary critic Tina Mandilara and writer Nasia Dionysiou will talk about Albert Camus – the man, the writer, the philosopher.
This tribute to Albert Camus will also host a performance titled Camus, the Loving Man presenting dramatised excerpts from his correspondence with Maria Casarès, performed by actors Varnavas Kyriazis and Vassiliki Kypreou. The selected correspondence letters will be translated especially for this occasion.
Translated by: Nasia Dionysiou
Performed by: Varnavas Kyriazis, Vassiliki Kypreou
Music supervision: George Kolias
Lighting design: Vassilis Petinaris
Free entrance / Booking in advance is required.
26 – 28 THU - SAT 20:30
The Animattikon Project
The Animattikon Project, the international animation festival returns for its sixth edition from 26 to 28 October 2023 at the Rialto Theatre, presenting a diverse selection of 52 animated short films from 18 countries covering the entire spectrum of the international independent scene. Additionally, the festival will also be hosting lectures, workshops and exhibitions centered around the art of animation. The detailed programme will be announced soon.
For the first time this year, the festival will be enriched with the addition of the MO event: a showcase exclusively focusing on the art of motion graphics. In its inaugural year, MO will present an exhibition of motion graphics films at Art Studio55.
The Animattikon Project is organised by Kimonos Art Center, in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre and the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of Cyprus University of Technology.
With English subtitles
General Programme of screenings:
26/10: 10 animated shorts (72')
27/10: 15 animated documentaries, video clips and music videos (76')
28/10: 14 international and Cypriot student animation short films (66')
The Animattikon Project will wrap up with the awards ceremony.
Tickets: €5 (Free entrance for students).
29 SUN 20:30 (80‘) On Stage
Biomagia | FlashArt 2023
What if we were given the chance to go back in time and change everything? In Biomagia, the recently separated main character, Jan, is in pursuit of happiness after a breakup. He embarks on a journey to the last random meeting he had with a girl just before the beginning of a theatrical performance, a meeting that had barely lasted two minutes.
What if he re-lived those two minutes, paying attention to the details? The repetitiveness of a certain scene illuminates the “insignificant” moments, the ones we initially ignore. But these are the “little sparks” that can ultimately bring happiness and reactivate our basic human need for communication.
We have the ability to communicate easily and quickly with people all around the world, without realising that we are unable to effectively communicate with the person who may be right next to us, sometimes even ignoring their existence.
Biomagia reminds us that magic is hidden everywhere, as long as we are open to let the others’ gaze penetrate our heart.
A show with humour, play and... Magic!
*Biomagia by Marianna Kalbaris will be staged for the first time in Cyprus. It was first presented on National Theatre of Greece’s Experimental Stage in 2004, marking a huge success for two consecutive years.
Directed by: Eleni Anastasiou
Sets/Costumes: Rea Olympiou
Music: Andreas Michalopoulos, Stavros Makris
Lighting Design: Karolina Spyrou
Movement: Ivi Hatzivasileiou
Cast: Andreas Koutsoftas, Marian Kyprianou
Musician On Stage/ ElaVassilis: Andreas Michalopoulos
Tickets: € 12 / 10
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31 TUE 20:30 (75’)
My Ennio Morricone I Stavros Lantsias Quartet
Acclaimed Cypriot pianist and composer, Stavros Lantsias, introduces the audience to the music universe of his beloved composer, Ennio Morricone, presenting some of the most unforgettable soundtracks of emblematic films such as Lolita, Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Inventive arrangements and inspired orchestrations by charismatic soloists make up an evening passionately dedicated to the music of the Italian composer:
With love for Cinema, images and emotions, enriched with references to the films and fascinating extracts from interviews with the composer.
Some of Lantsias’ arrangements on Morricone’s music were first presented at Megaron Athens Concert Hall, during the premiere of the documentary on Ennio Morricone’s life, directed by Giusepe Tornatore, at Athens International Film Festival “Premiere Nights”.
Experienced and sensitive, Lantsias approaches the work of Ennio Morricone at its very core, understanding its multiple dimensions and exploring every composition in detail. Through his own creative vision, and accompanied by his skilled fellow instrumentalists, he sets up a fascinating film that evokes a multitude of emotions. The musicians never abandon the spirit of composition: they set the tone to jazz, producing exquisite music that touches both musicians and listeners.
The album Stavros Lantsias Quartet “My Ennio Morricone” was completed in summer 2023, with the permission of the composer’s family.
Stavros Lantsias: piano, melodica, glockenspiel
Andreas Polyzogopoulos: trumpet & flügelhorn
Michalis Kalkanis: double bass
Michalis Kapilidis: drums
Produced by: GSA Cultural Productions LTD
Tickets: € 15 / 10
November 2023
1 WET 20:30 (90’)
An Inspector Calls | Dionysus Theatre
J.B. Pristley’s best-known and most acclaimed work An Inspector Calls revolves around individual responsibility, setting up a suspenseful crime drama.
Synopsis: The year is 1912. Right before the outbreak of the First World War, the prosperous British Birling family is about to celebrate a special occasion. Arthur and Sybil Birling’s daughter, Sheila, will become engaged to Gerald Croft, the son of yet another wealthy British family of the high society. Their engagement will enable the two families to join forces and thus increase their profits. Father Arthur Birling seizes the opportunity to express an important argument - his own conviction: that every man must mind their own business. Things work just fine until inspector Goole shows up, announcing the death of a female worker at one of the Birling factories.
Written by: John Pristley
Translated by: Grigoris Valtinos
Directed by: Christos Yiangou
Tickets: € 15 / 12
2 THU 20:30 (80’)
Cyprophonia 1 Ι Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Featuring works by distinguished Cypriot composers, this exciting concert offers a diverse soundscape in terms of aesthetics, inspiration, and artistic quests. The orchestra and distinguished soloists will present the world premiere of Christos Pittas’ The Demon of Formication for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra, based on the eponymous poem by George Seferis. Of Early Dawn by Ayis Ioannides is preoccupied with religious symbolisms and a movement towards the light. Naked branches, I by Christina Athinodorou engages with the concept of abandonment and resurrection, inspired by the vision of a leafless tree.
PROGRAMME
Christos Pittas: The demon of formication [World Premiere]
Ayis Ioannides: Of early dawn
Christina Athinodorou: Naked branches, I for string orchestra (2006)
Two more works by Cypriot composers
Christos Kechris tenor
Dionisos Tsantinis baritone
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kyriaki Kountouri
Tickets: €18 / 14 & €13 / 10
3 FRI 20:00 (92‘)
Golden Years - Barbara Kulcsar (Switzerland 2022) (12+)
Free at last! Alice and Peter are ready to finally enjoy their life as pensioners. However, their pent-up marital problems bubble to the surface on a cruise trip through the Mediterranean. They end up going on separate journeys of self-discovery, both finding unexpected ways of spending their golden years.
Nominee for the 2023 Swiss Film Prize (Best Performance in a Supporting Role) & official festival selection at: Solothurn Film Days, Zurich Film Festival, Film Festival Hamburg, Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Director: Barbara Kulcsar (2022)
Genre: fiction, dramedy
Cast: Esther Gemsch, Stefan Kurt, Ueli Jäggi, Gundi Ellert, André Jung, Teresa Harder, Martin Vischer, Isabelle Barth, Monica Budde
Language: Swiss German with English subtitles.
Organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in Cyprus, in the framework of Weeks of the German Language 2023.
Free Entrance (Booking in advance is required)
4 SAT 15:30 (5+)
In the city of Lost Robots | Hippo Theatre Group (60’)
An out-of-this-world story for kids aged 5 – 14 years old, written by Fotis Dousos and Alexandros Raptis, set in a futuristic environment full of new technological advances and human-like robots. The robots live in a state of slavery and have the role of a servant or an entertainer. The only free humanoid is Pin; but the authoritarian World Government does not approve of this at all.
Will Pin be able to employ his freedom for the benefit of all? Will he be able to prove that kind-hearted feelings hide deep inside him, and that it is our actions that make us human? Led by the idea that “one is not born a man, one becomes a man”, Pin sets out on a self-discovery journey full of (mis)adventures, twists, dilemmas, humour and emotions.
Continuing to explore the physical theatre genre invented by Hippo Theatre Group (kinemo, Angelaki Editions), the directors set up a performance where intense physicality, imagination, music and movement prevail, offering an imaginative and entertaining spectacle.
During the show, kids explore concepts such as the sense of responsibility, the personal and social freedom, solidarity, the spirit of collaboration and team working.
Written and directed by: Alexandros Raptis – Fotis Dousos
Set & Costume design: Katerina Hatzopoulou
Mask: Martha Foka
Movement: Mika Stefanaki, Alexandros Raptis
Choreography: Mika Stefanaki
Assistant director: Sissy Ignatidou
Music: Yiorgos Dousos
Cast: Vivi Tsorba, Myrto Makri
With the collaboration of Limassol Book Fair
Tickets: € 10 / 8
5 SUN 14:00
Cyprus Dance Film Festival – Cult Experiences
Cult Experiences proudly presents the inaugural Cyprus Dance Film Festival, a remarkable celebration of the fusion of dance and cinema. Attendees are invited to immerse themselves in a captivating cinematic journey, featuring a diverse selection of local and international dance films. The festival showcases the artistry of movement and emotion brought to life on the big screen, ranging from contemporary to traditional dance forms.
The pinnacle of this event is the highly anticipated Awards Ceremony, where live dance shows will be performed, and exceptional filmmakers will be recognized and celebrated for their outstanding contributions. At the prestigious Heroes’ Square venue, the organizers will roll out the Red Carpet, between 18:00 - 21:00, to honor all the talented artists in attendance.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to take a look at the beautiful dance photography exhibition, as they mingle and celebrate the convergence of dance and cinema and make important connections.
Programme:
14:00 - 16:30 Screenings Block A
17:00 - 18:30 Screenings Block B
19:00 - 20:30 Screenings Block C
21:00 - 23:00 Awards Ceremony (Block D)
Tickets: € 8 / 6 (for each Block) € 15 /12 (Day Pass)
10 – 12 FRI – SUN 20:30
Cyprus Choreography Platform
Cyprus Choreography Platform is an annual institution, which aims at the creation and presentation of new contemporary choreography projects. This 23rd edition will present 12 projects conceived by both established and upcoming choreographers.
Presenting works by choreographers: Milena Ugren Koulas, Harry Koushios, Panos Malactos, Panayiotis Tofi, Diamanto Hadjizacharia, Elena Christodoulidou, Alexandra Waierstall, Melina Ioannidou, Olga Markari, Ioannis Economides, Sotirios Panagoulias, Annie Khoury.
The main programme of events is enriched by a parallel programme organised by Dance House Lemesos in the frame of “Dance Throughout the Year”.
Organised by the Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture and the Rialto Theatre.
Tickets: €8 (€15 / 3-day pass)
Free entrance to choreographers & dancers (Booking in advance is required).
13 MON 20:30
Dimitrios Vassilakis & Espen Berg Trio
On the occasion of the release of the fourth album "Fjære" and the upcoming release of the new collaboration with Dimitrios Vassilakis, Espen Berg's trio comes from Norway to the Half Note, as part of their European tour.
Espen's melodic and rhythmically complex music serves as the basis for the trio's dynamic, and idiosyncratic interaction with Dimitris Vassilakis' spontaneous saxophone prose.
Dimitris Vassilakis an international acclaimed saxophonist, vocalist and composer with award-winning recordings from the BBC on Candid Records, presentations at Birdland, Dizzy's Club - Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Yale, Smithsonian, United Nations, Ronnie Scott's - London Jazz Festival, has been collaborating with the trio since 2019 and their new recording "Daedalus Project - Persephone" will be released in 2024 on Candid Records.
Espen Berg is an international award-winning pianist. In 2016 he received Norway's highest music award, "JazZtipendiate", at the Molde Jazz Festival. He is a member of the Norwegian Jazz Startup Program 2018 and Espen Berg Trio was appointed as an official ambassador of NTNU at the Trondheim Jazzfestival in 2016.
Line up:
Dimitrios Vassilakis - saxophones, Espen Berg - piano, Bárður Reinert Poulsen - bass, Simon Olderskog Albertsen - drums
Tickets: € 15 / 10 (Musicians, Students)
14 TUE 19:30 (138’)
Ora, Ora, Be Goin Alone - Shuichi Okita (Japan 2020)
Momoko, a seventy-five-year-old solitary woman, resides alone in Tokyo. She was not born in the bustling city, but made her way there over half a century ago. In her early years, she had encountered a kind-hearted man, accepted his proposal, and became a mother of two. After her husband’s death, she found herself once more in solitude, until one fateful day: when she stumbled upon a library. In the pages of books, she discovered solace and companionship, and her life took a transformative turn. This is the story of her journey.
Based on an original novel by Chisako Wakatake, published by KawadeShoboShinsha.
Directed and written by Shuichi Okita
Music by Masato Suzuki
Cast: Yuko Tanaka, Yu Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Gaku Hamada, Munetaka Aoki, Kankuro Kudo, Tomoko Tabata, Daisuke Kuroda, Takashi Yamanaka, Amane Okayama, Toko Miura Seiji Rokkaku, Hisako Okata, Machiko Washio.
Free entrance (Booking in advance is required)
17 FRI 20:30 (60’)
Tune In – Lia Ηaraki
A workshop and performance
It has been ten years since the work Tune In premiered on Rialto’s stage: now it returns to the same theatre as part of the Associate Artist programme. On the occasion of the tenth-year anniversary of the solo, which resonated with audiences both in Cyprus and internationally, Lia and Evie Haraki Μahera (original mentor of Tune In) will share the IntuNition practice by giving a short workshop with basic principles to whoever desires to join, with free entrance.
Soon after, Lia will perform Tune In on Rialto’s stage to the music of composer Pandelis Diamantides.
Workshop: 18.00-20.00 (for registrations contact info@liaharaki.com).
Tickets: € 10 / 7
18 SAT 19:55 (222’)
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X I The MET: Live in HD
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at cinemas on November 18. Theatre luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.
This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. With English subtitles.
Composer: Anthony Davis
Librettist: Thulani Davis
Choreographer: Rickey Tripp
Story: Christopher Davis
Production: Robert O’Hara
Set Designer: Clint Ramos
Costume Designer: Dede Ayite
Lighting Designer: Alex Jainchill
Projection Designer: Yee Eun Nam
Conductor: Kazem Abdullah
Cast
Soprano: Leah Hawkins, Mezzo-Soprano: Raehann Bryce-Davis, Tenor: Victor Ryan Robertson Baritone: Will Liverman, Bass-Baritone: Michael Sumuel
Tickets: € 20 / 15
19 SUN (90‘) 11: 00
Peripato | Maria Varnakkidou, Constantina Andreou
A journey across time, an imprint of memory, an experience of sound and visual images, conceived by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou in the framework of Rialto’s Associate Artist Residence Scheme.
A soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future. Stories from the past, monuments and buildings that have been changing over the course of time, as well as a glance at the future of the Square. Amidst all these, the Rialto becomes the protagonist, a theatre that has been shaping a cultural identity, constituting a significant chapter in the history of the emblematic Heroes’ Square.
Soundwalk translation in English: Diamanto Stylianou & Despina Pirketti.
Tickets: € 5
19 SUN 17: 00 (65’)
Coppelius’ Dream Ι Epilogi Cultural Movement (4+)
A musical tale featuring choral covers of some of the most famous ballet music scores: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote.
Following the musical tale Mr Beethoven’s magic pencil and the opera for children Prince Frog, which both resonated with the young audience, Epilogi Cultural Movement hosts a third educational concert with actors, musicians and a children’s choir on stage.
Music and lyrics written by: Corina Vasiliou
Cast: Andreas Daniel, Anthi Kasinou
Piano: Corina Vassiliou, Gergana Georgieva
Epilogi Cultural Movement Children’s Choir & Workshop
Tickets: € 10 / 7
21 TUE 20:30 (75’)
Piano Duets
Manolis Neofytou (6+)
Four distinguished pianists, Manolis Neophytou, Canan Kocaay, Eleni Mavromoustaki, Mariola Charitidou perform works for two pianos and eight hands.
They will present works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexei Tsfasman, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis.
Tickets: € 15 / 12
23 – 27 THU - MON
A tribute to Theodoros Terzopoulos
The Rialto Theatre and Cyprus University of Technology organise a tribute in honour of Theodoros Terzopoulos, one of the most celebrated directors in the history of world theatre, hosting a series of events including discussions, a hands-on workshop on T. Terzopoulos’ method presented by his close collaborator Savvas Stroumbos, with the participation of actors and students, a screening of Spyros Tsiftsis’ documentary titled Dionysos, the return, and the staging of the milestone performance Alarme, thirteen years after its historic premiere in Attis. Organised by the Rialto Theatre and Cyprus University of Technology, in collaboration with the Cyprus Centre of the International Theatre Institute.
Theodoros Terzopoulos was born in Makrygialos village, in the Pieria area of Northern Greece. He attended Kostis Michailidis’ Drama School (Athens, 1965-1967) and, later on, Berliner Ensemble (Berlin, 1972-1976). He served, among other posts, as the director of the Drama School of the State Theatre of Northern Greece, and as the Artistic Director of the International Meetings of Ancient Drama in Delphi. Since 1993 to this date, he serves as the Chairman of the International Committee of Theatre Olympics, having organised nine T.O. globally.
With his group, Attis Theatre, which he established in 1985, Theodoros Terzopoulos has presented to this date 2100 performances all over the world (excluding those staged in Greece), at some of the most prestigious international festivals and theatres. He has also led and presented multiple workshops and lectures, and he is an Emeritus Professor at international academies and universities in Greece and internationally. Today, his method and ancient tragedy performances are being taught in thirty universities.
Theodoros Terzopoulos has received a multitude of awards and accolades. Publications on his work and on Attis Theatre have been released in twelve languages. “The Return of Dionysus” (Attis Theatre Publications), a book on his Method, was published in 2015 and continues to be translated in many languages.
25 SAT 20:30 (60’)
Alarme - Attis Theatre
Alarme is a scenic composition based on the correspondence between Maria Stewart and Queen Elizabeth A’, illustrating the love-hatred relationship between the two queens who, in reality, never really met. Terzopoulos’ work revolves around the much relevant topic of power.
In Greek with English subtitles.
Direction / Set installation / Dramaturgical composition: Theodoros Terzopoulos
Costumes: LOUKIA, Music: Panayiotis Velianitis
Lighting: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Constantinos Bethanis
Cast: Aglaia Pappa, Sophia Hill, Tasos Dimas
Tickets: € 20 / 15
December 2023
2 SAT 19:55 (194’)
Dead Man Walking I The MET: Live in HD
Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s poignant music and a libretto by Tony and Emmy Award-winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.
Librettist: Terrence McNally
Production: Ivo van Hove
Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld
Costume Designer: An D’Huys
Projection Designer: Christopher Ash
Sound Designer: Tom Gibbons
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher).
With English subtitles.
Tickets: € 20 / 15
3 SUN 18:00 (150’)
Life of Pi I NT Live
The Rialto Theatre kickstarts the new NT Live season offering a unique opportunity to the local audience to watch the best of British theatre.
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti of Yann’s Martel best-selling novel.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?
Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is brought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens. A production from Simon Friend Entertainment.
Synopsis: A young boy, Piscine Patel, known as Pi, grows up as the son of the manager of a zoo in Pondicherry, India. Pi is fascinated by the animals at the zoo, including a Royal Bengal tiger, called Richard Parker due to a clerical error in which the tiger’s name was switched with the name of its human captor. Raised a Hindu and a vegetarian, Pi contemplates the various benefits and drawbacks of different religions, to the dismay of his parents.
Pi’s father decides to sell the zoo and emigrate with his wife and children to Canada. The family board the Tsimtsum, a Japanese freighter transporting their animals to North America. On its journey, the ship encounters a storm and sinks, killing most of its occupants. Pi escapes in a small lifeboat alongside a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan, and the tiger. The hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan before Richard Parker kills and eats the hyena. Pi slowly trains the tiger, using food to reinforce nonthreatening behaviour. With resources low, Pi catches fish and eats a turtle with Richard Parker to stay alive.
In a state of delirium, Pi hears what he believes to be the voice of Richard Parker talking back to him. It is actually the French cook from the ship, who tries to attack Pi but is instead himself killed by Richard Parker.
Later the boat comes ashore on an island inhabited by thousands of meerkats. Pi greedily eats the food available on the island, but upon realising that the island is carnivorous, he and Richard Parker are forced to return to the ocean. Eventually the boat washes up on a beach in Mexico. Richard Parker disappears into the jungle without looking back, while Pi is rescued by locals.
In the present, Pi is questioned by staff at a hospital, as he is the sole survivor of the shipwreck. They reject his story as unbelievable. Pi offers a second story, this time in which he is aboard the lifeboat with his mother, the ship’s cook, and a sailor with a broken leg. The cook kills the sailor and Pi’s mother before Pi finally kills the cook. The investigators note the parallels between the stories, realising the hyena symbolises the cook, the zebra the sailor, the orangutan Pi’s mother, and the tiger represents Pi. As neither story can be proven true, Pi asks the investigators which story they prefer. They choose the story with animals.
Director: Max Webster
Set and Costume Designer: Tim Hatley
Puppet and Movement Director: Finn Caldwell
Puppetry Designers: Nick Barnes, Finn Caldwell
Video Designer: Andrzej Goulding
Lighting Designer: Tim Lutkin
Sound Design: Carolyn Downing
Composer: Andrew T. Mackay
Cast: Hiran Abeysekera, Mina Anwar, Tom Espiner, Kirsten Foster
Raj Ghatak, Nicholas Khan, Syreeta Kumar, Payal Mistry, Habib Nasib Nader
With Greek and English subtitles.
Tickets: € 20 / 15
5 TUE 20:30 (110’)
Silver Lining - Sandi Toksvig Ι Satiriko Theatre
At a retirement house in Gravesend, amidst a state of emergency due to severe weather conditions, five elderly women and their young female caretaker remain helpless, forgotten and trapped. On this dark and stormy night, they start sharing memories, secrets and concerns, remembering their wrongful and rightful lives. When they are suddenly faced with the realisation that no one will help them out, they decide to take their lives into their own hands and make their own “exodus”.
The Silver Lining is “a punch to the stomach” criticising the ills of our society, while satirically highlighting the voids of our system and its disregard towards a certain group of people who, for some, may be nothing but a burden, instead of being the pillar of our existence and legacy, ending up shunted aside and ignored.
Six wonderful women, abandoned to loneliness and sorrow, are struggling to survive. Amidst tensions, emotions and twists, but also with endless humour, they build up a meaningful relationship, which gradually develops due to the stressful floods, drawing on the strength of their knowledge and wisdom. Through their experience, they give life lessons while continuing to struggle for the future, in an attempt to choose the best path forward. To them, life must not end in entrapment and disregard. Being an elderly human does not mean being boring, unnecessary or “finished”.
Directed by: Neoklis Neokleous
Translated by: Marianna Kafkaridou, Estella Tembrioti
Set design: Savvas Mylonas
Costume design: Rea Olympiou
Music arrangement: Marianna Kafkaridou
Lighting design: Karolina Spyrou
Assistant director: Maria Pishili
Photographs/Trailer: Christina Tryfonos
Poster and programme design: Marios Christoforidis
Set construction: Yiorgos Christianopoulos
Cast: Despina Bebedeli, Lenia Sorokou, Popi Avraam, Erica Beyeti, Ioanna Shafkali, Chrystallenia Papadimitri, Michalis Anayiotos.
In Greek.
Tickets: €15 / 12 (supporters, students, pensioners)
8, 9 FRI, SAT 19:30
10th Cyprus Jazz & World Music Showcase
The Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture and the Rialto Theatre organise the 10th Cyprus Jazz & World Music Showcase, presenting a comprehensive and dynamic picture of the local contemporary music scene.
Featuring: Odysseas Toumazou Origins, S.G.C (Soulful Groove Collective), Krama Brass Band, Erica Soteri, Kalesma, Loud Urban Soul Teachers, SONICA, Eleonora Roussou. The following bands will present their music at Art Studio 55: Alexis Sunder, Nikos Charalambous, Chunky Funky Electro Funk Quartet, Nama Dama.
Tickets: €10 / 8 (€15 2-day pass)
12 TUE 20:30 (135’)
Wuthering Heights | Anemona Theatre
Irene Maradey’s theatrical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Cathy's father brings home a young orphan, Heathcliff, to live with his two children as an adopted son. The older brother, Hidley, harbours a great dislike and jealousy towards the newcomer, and after his father’s death, treats him with brutality, forcing him to work in the stables and live with the servants. However, Cathy and Heathcliff fall deeply in love, developing a strong bond from the very beginning. Growing up, they dream of a future together, yet Cathy chooses to marry Edgar Lyndon, a wealthy neighbour, to ensure her future prosperity. Heathcliff, deeply hurt and disappointed, leaves the Earnshaw house to return a few years later having become rich. Yet Cathy finds it difficult to leave Edgar for Heathcliff, so he sets up a plan to revenge, causing severe damages to both families and to the lives of all the characters, including his own.
Directed by: Andreas Telemachou
Sets-Costumes: Sose Eskidjian
Music editing: Andreas Telemachou
Lighting Design: Vassilis Petinaris
Videoart: Giannis Savvidis
Art director: Andreas Telemachou
Actors: Marinos Xenophontos, Eleni Anastasiou, Elena Chileti, Nikolas Petrou, Savvas Menikou, Fani Sokratous, Claudio Dimonu, George Iosif.
In Greek
Tickets: € 15 / 10
13, 14 WED, THU, 20.30 (100’) On Stage
The Bodies we swore Ι Lia Haraki
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the pelma.Lia Haraki works, the piece will be based on the company’s archive and will be developing throughout the evening based on the audience’s reflections and memories. Characters, songs and performative moments from the works will often be interrupting this process.
The piece is a part of the Rialto’s Associate Artist Scheme and is supported by the Deputy Ministry of Culture 2023.
Tickets: € 10 / 7
15 FRI 20:30 (70’)
Christmas with Marios Tokas Limassol Music School
The Limassol Music School presents a festive concert in collaboration with the Rialto Theatre with the participation of the Symphony Band, the Improvisation Ensemble and the Music School’s Choir.
Conductors and teachers: Theodoros Krassidis, Yiorgos Hadjigeorgiou, Yiorgos Krassidis, Eleni Kyprianou.
Tickets: € 5
16 SAT 19:00 (180’)
Andre Rieu’s White Christmas
For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. This year it will come early with André Rieu’s cinema special White Christmas—a celebration you will never forget.
From the first jingled bell, you will be immersed in the incomparable Christmas atmosphere of André’s winter wonderland. Marvel at the magnificently decorated Christmas palace, complete with snow, two ice rinks, gorgeous winter scenes, romantic lighting, red carpet, countless lights, 150 beautiful chandeliers and over 50 Venetian candelabras.
Savour the spirit of the season while singing and dancing in the aisles to timeless Christmas carols, romantic waltzes and beautiful songs from all over the world — Jingle Bells, Ave Maria, Oh Holy Night, Hallelujah, Sleigh Ride and many more! Cinema audiences will also enjoy exclusive backstage access, as cinema host Charlotte Hawkins speaks with André about creating his musical winter wonderland. It’s a perfect early Christmas present for André fans!
Join André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra for their brand new Christmas concert from the comfort of your local cinema.
An unforgettable festive treat for the whole family! Get your tickets now for André Rieu’s White Christmas!
Tickets: €15 / 10
17 SUN 20:00 (65’)
Satanerie – Theophrastos Sakellaridis Ι Epilogi Cultural Movement
The hilarious Satanerie operette by Theophrastos Sakellaridis is a morality play that contrasts hell with paradise, boldly and ironically highlighting the benefits of modern over traditional immorality. Narrating the story of Andreas, an unfortunate fellow at the crossroads of virtue and evil, the play satirises the relevant yet timeless impunity when the character decides to choose Hell after having received a tour to the underworld by Satan himself!
Directed, adapted by: Angela Kleopatra Saroglou
Music arrangement: Michalis Grigoriou
Soloists: Mariza Anastasiadi, Marios Andreou, Stelios Georgiou, Tasoula Vorka, Giorgos Kalamakis, Odysseas Alexandrides
Epilogi Choir
Five-member orchestra
Tickets: € 15 / 12
22 FRI 20:00 (80’)
Christmas with Kyrenia Opera
Celebrate Christmas with Kyrenia Opera on Friday, December 22, 2023 at 20:00.
The evening will feature the joyous singing of two of Kyrenia Opera’s award winners, sopranos Elena Patsalidou and Angelique Savvas, along with bass baritone Andreas Zenios and boy soprano Cristian Ionel. The beautiful voices of Ipsonas Municipality Children’s Choir join Kyrenia Opera for this holiday celebration.
Works by Dvořák, Puccini, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, and others.
Bring your family to participate in a holiday sing-along with general director Constantinos Yiannoudes. Santa will make a special visit at the majestic Rialto Theatre.
A perfect way to share in the spirit of Christmas.
Tickets: €15 /10 (Students, soldiers, supporters) Children up to 12 free.
23 SAT 19:55 (155’)
Florencia en el Amazonas I The MET: Live in HD
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera focuses on an opera diva, Florencia Grimaldi, who returns to her native Brazil to perform and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The Met premiere stars soprano Ailyn Pérez as Florencia in a new production by Mary Zimmerman that brings the mystical realm of the Amazon to the Met stage. The distinguished ensemble of artists portraying the diva’s fellow travelers on the river boat to Manaus features Gabriella Reyes as the journalist Rosalba, bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as the ship’s captain, baritone Mattia Olivieri as his enigmatic first mate, tenor Mario Chang as the captain’s nephew Arcadio, and mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera and baritone Michael Chioldi as the feuding couple Paula and Álvaro, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium.
Production: Mary Zimmerman
Set Designer: Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Designer: Ana Kuzmanic
Lighting Designer: T.J. Gerckens
Projection Designer: S. Katy Tucker
Choreographer: Alex Sanchez
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Ailyn Pérez (Florencia Grimaldi), Gabriella Reyes (Rosalba), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Paula), Mario Chang (Arcadio), Michael Chioldi (Álvaro), Mattia Olivieri (Riolobo), Greer Grimsley (Captain)
With English subtitles
Tickets: € 20 / 15
28 THU 18:30 & 20:30 (50’) On Stage (+16)
Say Yes! again and again I Evie Demetriou
Say Yes! again and again is a performance exploring topics of identity and gender in a playful and empowering way. Two performers on stage, through physicality and linguistic forms, share personal experiences that shaped them as persons to explore social norms, queer subjectivities and normative pressures. The research for the performance started with the work Say Yes!, which has since been continued, concluding with the performance Say yes again and again! Join us for an evening of critically engaging with the political through an optimistic and pleasurable atmosphere.
Choreography: Evie Demetriou in collaboration with the performers Bas van der Kruk, Eleftheria Sokratous and Rania Glymitsa.
Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Terpsichore programme 2023.
Tickets: € 7 / 5
