ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 4th - 18th

The play will be performed Off Broadway at The First Floor Theater at 74 East 4th Street from September 11th to September 23rd, 2012 

 

After mounting two successful off-Broadway runs of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (2010) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris (2011), Leonidas Loizides’s acting troupe will return in the Fall of 2012 to present Euripides’s Helen. Produced and directed by the award-wining Leonidas Loizidis, Helen features an outstanding performance by acclaimed actress Eftychia Loizidi and a new adaptation of the play into modern English poetry by Louis Markos, English and Honors Professor and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University.

To watch a 17 minute introduction to Helen in which Professor Markos provides a synopsis of the plot, discusses the reasons he and Loizides chose Helen for 2012, and shares their vision for bringing Greek tragedy to a modern global audience, click this link:

http://youtu.be/rfmZI0Uu3OE

On Sunday, September 16 and 23 at 7pm, Loizidis will also present “Kaddish to a Life not Lived.” In this moving monologue, written by Michalis Kokkinaris, translated by Despines Kontaxis, and performed by Eftychia Loizidi, a Jewish woman named Sarah shares her final thoughts before being killed at Auschwitz. In unforgettable words, she mourns for the life that she will never live with the man she loves, the children she will never hold in her arms, and the simple dreams she will never see fulfilled.


11 Tuesday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY-7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY 
12 Wednesday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY - 7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
13 Thursday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY- 7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
14 Friday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY 7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
15 Saturday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY 7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
16 Sunday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY 5:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
16 Sunday 7:00PM KADDISH TO A LIFE NOT LIVED

17 Monday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY-7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY 
18 Tuesday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY-7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
19 Wednesday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY-7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
20 Thursday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY-7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
21 Friday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY- 7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
22 Saturday 3:00 PM HELEN OF TROY -7:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
23 Sunday 3:00 PM- HELEN OF TROY 5:00 PM HELEN OF TROY
23 Sunday 7:00 PM KADDISH TO A LIFE NOT LIVED

Buy your presale tickets now for only $55 ($35 for students and retirees), and secure a seat for the only original ancient Greek tragedy presented in our city. Buy purchasing a ticket, you will become an important part of our effort to promote and preserve authentic Greek civilization.

If you would like to be included in our support list, do not hesitate to contact us at loizides@hotmail.gr

Leonidas Loizides   NEW YORK 

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