The National Theatre of Northern Greece presents the event “Xeskepos ouranos”, in collaboration with the Museum of Byzantine Culture and the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
«Xeskepos ouranos»
Reading tribute to
Nikos Kazantzakis
Wednesday, 5 June 2019,
20:30
The National Theatre of Northern Greece presents the event “Xeskepos ouranos”, in collaboration with the Museum of Byzantine Culture and the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum. This event, directed by Melina Apostolidou, will be held at the Foyer of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, in Thessaloniki, on Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 8:30 pm.
In the form of
reading, excerpts from the works of Nikos Kazantzakis will be read, namely
from: Report to Greco, Salvatores Dei, Constantine Palaeologus, Travelling:
Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem, Cyprus, The Peloponnese, Tertsina.
Free entrance
This event is held on
the occasion of the temporary exhibition “Kazantzakis and Byzantium: a Quest
for the Divine”, which take place in the Museum of Byzantine Culture (“Eftychia
Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou” exhibition hall). This exhibition, organized by the Nikos Kazantzakis
Museum, the Museum of Byzantine Culture, and the Region of Crete, will last
until the 15th of September, 2019.
A special guided tour
of the temporary exhibition “Kazantzakis and Byzantium: a Quest for the Divine”
by the curator of this exhibition, archaeologist Evangelos Charitopoulos, is
included in the event, which will precede the table-read and will start at
19:30.
Contributors:
Director: Melina
Apostolidou
Production
Coordinator: Eirini Chatzikyriakidou
Assistant Dramaturg (internship): Marios Karvounakis
Actors – readers: Chrysanthos Kagias, Lilian Palantza, Thodoris Polyzonis, Thodoris Skourtas