“Hellas in Bloom: Creative Greece”
Vasilis Papavasiliou talks about Theater with Platon Mavromoustakos
The period from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s was a pivotal time for the way in which theatrical ideas were brought to the stage in the young Greek state. Using this temporal demarcation, we will talk about the human capital of the intellectual heritage of the modern Greek state: the protagonists who assumed this new role in theater, that of the theater director, which became in modernity the art that brought the theater into the 21st century. In this respect, the newly founded modern Greek state fell into step with European modernity, which brought about the birth of the modern-day theater director in the 1880s.
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He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Since 1991, he has been teaching in the Department of Theater Studies of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a law degree from the University of Athens (1981) and a PhD from the Institut d’Études Théâtrales, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (1987). He has taught in universities and research centers in Europe and America. He is a founding member of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama. Studies of his regarding the history, dramaturgy and practice of Greek theater and contemporary staging of ancient drama are published in Greek and international scientific journals. He is a dramatist, working with theater organizations and committees of the Greek Ministry of Culture. He has written numerous books and has edited various publications. He has been bestowed the Ordre des Palmes académiques.