The Theatre Scheme of Leonidas Loizides tours staging “BACCHAE” of Euripides, in a version of the dean and professor of the University of Athens, Marika Thomadaki and in direction of the pioneer and innovating director Leonidas Loizides, who has a 20-year active career in the theatre stardom, always serving the quality theatre, and with artistic successes, the destiny of which had been to travel abroad and make a tour in Europe and America, as we are ambitious for our new oncoming production too. The play is presented in the Greek language with English hyper-titles. Its ingenuity lies in the fact that it is performed only by a female cast, that totally consists of eight women, selected professional actresses. It is about a pioneer idea of Leonidas Loizides that aims at the promotion of the role and the power of the woman, in the past as well as in the present time and the future. We also point out that in this attempt of ours we have the support of the Greek and Cypriot state and the honour, this theatrical production to be under the auspices of the Greek Ministries of Foreign affairs, Tourist Development, Transportation and Communications, the Organization for the Promotion of the Greek Culture of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Cypriot Republicas well as ???? (Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Athens) and UNESCO.Our Communication Sponsors are: ERT WORLD, ????, «Apogevmatini”, “City Press”, “Athens Voice”, “Athens 984, GoCulture,while our Sponsor is the “BANK OF CYPRUS”All the above factors render the as above performance perfect from the artistic point of view, at a level that it can satisfy even the most demanding audience. The theatre company consists of 8 members and along with the director, the technician (operator of lights and sound) and the production organizer, constitutes the eleven-member team that will travel for the materialization of this inspired project.The specific production spread its wings beyond the Greek horizons in September of 2008 with a 40-day tourney in America, in 18 states of the USA, under the auspices of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, SAE USA Region and the Organization under the name “PEDIA” (meaning EDUCATION in the English Language), and we hope that its journey will be as far and long, from the time point of view, as possible. Our tourney in America had an extremely warm reception from the audience and the press, winning many distinctions by local entities, with the awarding of prizes by the Municipality of New York and the American Congress being the high spot. Our following destination is Europe, with already scheduled performances in Germany, London, Cyprus and Paris for January and February 2009, while we are already preparing our new theatrical production “Troades” of Euripides, which will start its tour in Greece and abroad from August of 2009. Our ulterior objective is not to gain any profit, but the spreading of the Greek culture and theatre as well as the teaching of the classical and always timely, for any society, tragedies of one of our greatest tragic poets, to Greeks of the same descent that live abroad and to foreigners. Furthermore, an aim of our specific attempt is to find people and states which are friendly to Greece and our culture, aiming at their promotion and the beginning of a professional and artistic opening of the Greek theatre. The realization of this dream of ours lies in your contribution We would be interested in being in contact with acknowledged or valid theatrical Festivals, local or not, theatrical organizations, Cultural Organizations, Municipal authorities, acknowledged Theatres or Theatre Companies of abroad, aiming at the inclusion of our production in their artistic agenda for the season of 2009-2010. We also think that it would be useful for us to get in touch with universities of the country, in which theoretical arts are taught, in case they were interested in accommodating our theatre performance aiming at the teaching and education of their students.Finally, some performances could be staged under the auspices of local or national benevolent institutes and the returns of which could be disposed for charity purposes, thus promoting the social character of our country as well.We are open to any other proposal or idea you may have, which could help to the materialization of the specific theatrical production abroad, and of course we would be very glad, if your entity itself was interested in accommodating our production and supporting us financially, as well as in publicizing and promoting our proposal.We hope to realize in your turn, the specialness and substantialness of this attempt of ours for an international tourney of the tragedies “BACCHAE” and “TROADES” of Euripides, for the Greek theatre, as well as for the spreading of our culture beyond our national frontiers and to be a fellow traveler in our cultural journey.
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