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  • ISSUE 05

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The fifth issue of ACT II is out only a few days after the Russian announcement of partial conscription. For the first time, the ‘special operation’ which started against Ukraine...
  • CHANDELIER
  • ANDREAS G. ANDREOU, IOANNA VALSAMIDOU
  • ISSUE 05

When a theatre becomes a tank

When a theatre becomes a tank: Russian theatre critic on war support in his professional community While European theatres express solidarity with the people of Ukraine, some of their Russian...
  • GHOSTLIGHT
  • ANTHON KHITROV
  • ISSUE 05

Thus passes the glory of the world

The newly chosen Pope, seated on his throne, leaves the sacristy of St. Peter; the procession has begun. Along the way, a master of ceremonies is forcing everyone to halt....
  • BACKLIGHTS
  • ANDREAS G. ANDREOU
  • ISSUE 05

‘New’ technologies: Pandora’s box or Panacea?

‘New’ technologies: Pandora’s box or Panacea? Rephrasing the question through the work of artists of the performing arts in Greece ‘New’ technologies: Pandora’s box or Panacea?’ A question repeatedly formulated...
  • SIDELIGHTS
  • KATERINA ANTONOPOULOU
  • ISSUE 05

Samuel Beckett amongst the ruins of Saint-Lô

Samuel Beckett’s prose piece The Capital of the Ruins was written in 1946 as a report from the French town of Saint-Lô for the Irish Radio Éireann, yet its broadcasting...
  • FOLLOW SPOT
  • ALEXANDROS LAVRANOS
  • ISSUE 05

Olivier Neveux: Against Political Theatre

Olivier Neveux AGAINST POLITICAL THEATRE, La Fabrique, Paris 2019 Translation: Panagiota Kalogeropoulou, Dramatist-Researcher. Medea Electronique welcomes Olivier Neveux, professor of theatre history and aesthetics at Lumière Lyon-2 University and his...
  • MOVING LIGHTS
  • MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE| ANGELIKI POULOU, MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS
  • ISSUE 05

The new Experimental Stage

A discussion with the three new artistic directors of the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece, Giorgos Koutlis (for the theatrical season 2022/2023), Katerina Giannopoulou (2023/2024), and Eleni...
  • FLOODLIGHT
  • PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
  • ISSUE 04

Editorial: Re-member

In the fourth issue of ACT II we attempt to chart the Athenian theatres’ winter season and bring to the foreground the notions of memory (re-member) and participation (member), of...
  • CHANDELIER
  • ALEXANDROS LAVRANOS, IOANNA VALSAMIDOU
  • ISSUE 04

We were together. Remember?

Don’t know if you remember, but the show had been interrupted. Right before the end. Some kids had come into the theatre holding banners and shouting slogans, like ‘You can’t...
  • BACKLIGHTS
  • ANDREAS G. ANDREOU
  • ISSUE 04

The Art of living above the abyss

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that...
  • FOLLOW SPOT
  • YORGOS VALAIS
  • ISSUE 04

The birth and death of a cultural revolution

‘Perm has nothing worth seeing’. This was the answer I took from the first person I interviewed the day after my 24-hour trip from Moscow -1.440 km by car- and...
  • GHOSTLIGHT
  • DIMITRIS GEORGIADIS
  • ISSUE 04

Scenes from the city

Jan and Aleida Assman, working on the subject of collective memory, identify three types of memory: the ‘individual’ or autobiographical, the ‘social’, which has to do with what groups remember,...
  • WASHLIGHTS
  • ALEXANDROS LAVRANOS
  • ISSUE 04

Research: Theatre Repertoire in 2022 Athens

Which plays are performed in Athens this year? How did the pandemic and the socio-political situation affect the choice of plays? For the first time, ACT II attempts to create...
  • REFLECTOR
  • GREG LIAKOPOULOS
  • ISSUE 04

Medea Electronique interviews The Builders Association

We are thrilled to be discussing with The Builders Association, the renowned emblematic intermedia collective who have left their mark on contemporary theatre, especially with regards to experimentation and the...
  • MOVING LIGHTS
  • MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE| ANGELIKI POULOU, MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS
  • ISSUE 03

Editorial: Rethink

58The third issue of ACT II is out in the beginning of the winter theatrical season. As we feel the need to restart more pressing than ever, we attempt a...
  • CHANDELIER
  • IOANNA VALSAMIDOU, IO VOULGARAKI
  • ISSUE 03

I saw Epidaurus in Polykastro

I saw Epidaurus in Polykastro. It had snowed, a door was rattling in the wind and a light was shining from afar. I followed it without thinking and found myself...
  • BACKLIGHTS
  • ANDREAS G. ANDREOU
  • ISSUE 03

Restart by Mark Etchells

restart verb /riːˈstɑːt/ 1.start again ‘the talks will restart in September’ noun /ˈriːstɑːt/ 1.a new start or beginning ‘they ordered the restart of the talks’ Everyone is talking about restarting,...
  • STROBO
  • MARK ETCHELLS
  • ISSUE 03

About Dramaturgy

dramaturgy, the: 1. art of composing theatrical plays. || the work of the dramatist. 2. total of theatrical plays: The European/ American/ Greek ~. dramaturge, n.: 1. a writer or...
  • REFLECTOR
  • GREG LIAKOPOULOS
  • ISSUE 03

Listen to a story

Medea Electronique gets into conversation with two emblematic figures of the art of sound and contemporary music who, with tenderness and passion partake in the history and developments of the...
  • MOVING LIGHTS
  • MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE| ANGELIKI POULOU, MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS
  • ISSUE 03

Conversations #3: Fuck vegan, go cannibal

A discussion with three members of the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics: Louiza Arkoumanea (LiFO), Giorgos Voudiklaris (Artivist, Efsyn), and Tonia Karaoglou (Athinorama)   Giorgos Voudiklaris: Today,...
  • FLOODLIGHT
  • PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
  • ISSUE 03

What will they write about us in 500 words?

In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (IMDb rating: 7.7/10), Riggan, a decadent action movie actor, tries to make an artistic turn in his career...
  • FOLLOW SPOT
  • YORGOS VALAIS
  • ISSUE 03

Stefanie Carp: on women who disturb

I first met dramaturge Stefanie Carp in 2019 at the Ruhrtriennale of Germany, where she was the Artistic Director. She was the first female Artistic Director after six male terms....
  • GHOSTLIGHT
  • IOANNA VALSAMIDOU
  • ISSUE 02

Editorial: Rewrite

The first issue was the expression of our shared need for a new beginning, for a new way of looking at things, for a restart in theatre and the performing...
  • CHANDELIER
  • GREG LIAKOPOULOS, IOANNA VALSAMIDOU
  • ISSUE 02

Directing the national fantasy

There is a photo of the exiles in the camps of Makronissos building a model of the Parthenon. In Makronisos, a state-organized programme of ‘reform’ and ‘national reintegration’ of left-wing...
  • BACKLIGHTS
  • ALEXANDROS LAVRANOS
  • ISSUE 02

Mothers: Survival guide in the Greek theatre

The text that follows is addressed to the mothers – current, future, potential – who work in any position in the Greek theatre, whether they have a partner or are...
  • GHOSTLIGHT
  • IO VOULGARAKI
  • ISSUE 02

What is avant-garde in theatre today?

To rewrite everything, not to rely on the past of things, on definitions, on the efforts of the past, to take a second look upon the era in which we...
  • FOLLOW SPOT
  • YORGOS VALAIS
  • ISSUE 02

Exercising change – a radical shift of perspective

For the past twenty years, I have been active as a maker, performer, artistic advisor and multi-tasker of all kinds in the experimental performing arts field. My background is in...
  • STROBO
  • NADA GAMBIER
  • ISSUE 02

A letter to Pablo Gisbert

The Barcelona-based theatre collective El Conde de Torrefiel (Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert) is shaking European stages with their highly influential theatrical language. It is renewing theatrical codes, providing their...
  • MOVING LIGHTS
  • MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE | MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS, ANGELIKI POULOU
  • ISSUE 02

The theatre we want

One of the most common accusations we hear from adults is that the younger generation ‘only knows how to moan’. This is what we think about when we sit down...
  • WASHLIGHTS
  • DIMITRA THEODOROPOULOU, MARIA SEIRAGAKI
  • ISSUE 02

Conversations #2: Inviting in

The ACT OUT initiative was launched last February in the German-speaking world, with one hundred eighty-five actors from the LGBTQIA+ community vying for visibility and more rights in television, theatre...
  • FLOODLIGHT
  • PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
  • ISSUE 01

Editorial: Restart

Athens, March 27th, 2021 | World Theater Day | Second Act Notes The idea to create an online theatre magazine was born at a time of theatrical absence. For a...
  • CHANDELIER
  • IOANNA VALSAMIDOU
  • ISSUE 01

If you haven’t got a clue, copy the one next to you

There is an environment somewhere far away, where whoever hasn’t got a clue, copies the one next to them. There, people talk, gesture, yell, run up and down, and, mainly,...
  • BACKLIGHTS
  • ANDREAS G. ANDREOU
  • ISSUE 01

The Ghost of Authority

In the politically, socially, and economically fuggy situation of Greece in the era of the pandemic, something memorable happened. A multitude of fingers stretched and pointed at what for decades...
  • REFLECTOR
  • GREG LIAKOPOULOS
  • ISSUE 01

Notes on collective art practices

Notes on collective art practices | A symbiotic production methodology We are Medea Electronique, a cross-arts collective. Our activities consist in: multimedia performances, installations, experimental extended reality events, compositions of...
  • MOVING LIGHTS
  • MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE | ANGELIKI POULOU, MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS
  • ISSUE 01

Conversations #Ι: Milo Rau

‘As artistic director you have to give away a lot of this power quite soon’ After the recent events in Greece with the #metoo movement, the resignation of the artistic...
  • FLOODLIGHT
  • PRODROMOS TSINIKORIS
  • ISSUE 01

Is art anything more than a narcissistic act?

Is art anything more than a narcissistic act? The editorial team of ACT II answers this seemingly easy question. Our conversation began with the holy communion, with matters of faith;...
  • FOLLOW SPOT
  • YORGOS VALAIS
  • ISSUE 01

Stories we did not tell yet

Once upon a time, there was the theatre. We would leave our houses and go to a place in order to see a performance. We were sitting next to strangers...
  • GHOSTLIGHT
  • IO VOULGARAKI
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