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
