Trachiniae

Title

Τραχίνιες (EL)

Trachiniae (EN)

Creator

Σοφοκλής (EL)

Κρατικό Θέατρο Βορείου Ελλάδος (EN)

National Theatre of Northern Greece (EN)

Sophocles (EN)

Tragic poets
Sophocles, 496 B.C.-406 B.C. (EN)

Contributor

Σοφοκλής (Playwright)

Αρδίττης, Βίκτωρ (Director)

Βαλάκας, Κώστας (Translation)

Παπάζογλου, Ελένη (Translation)

Παπάζογλου, Ελένη (Dramaturgy Consultant)

Ζαρίφης, Δαμιανός (Set designer)

Ζαρίφης, Δαμιανός (Costume designer)

Βόμβολος, Κώστας (Music)

Ρήγος, Κωνσταντίνος (Choreography)

Βουδούρης, Νίκος (Music supervision)

Αηδονοπούλου, Ξένια (Assistant director)

Παπαδοπούλου, Ανέζα (Actor/Actress)

Δεληγιαννίδη, Ιφιγένεια (Actor/Actress)

Περλέγκας, Γιάννης (Actor/Actress)

Κολοβός, Δημήτρης (Actor/Actress)

Πετκίδης, Σάκης (Actor/Actress)

Τσορτέκης, Γιάννης (Actor/Actress)

Γιακουμή, Ευτυχία (Actor/Actress)

Τοπαλίδου, Έλενα (Actor/Actress)

Καρέλλης, Δημήτρης (Actor/Actress)

Καραζήσης, Ακύλλας (Actor/Actress)

Δελβερούδης, Ιπποκράτης (Actor/Actress)

Αποστολίδου, Μελίνα (Actor/Actress)

Αποστόλου, Ευγενία (Actor/Actress)

Γιωτοπούλου, Τίνα (Actor/Actress)

Γκούμα, Αμαλία (Actor/Actress)

Διαμαντοπούλου, Χρύσα (Actor/Actress)

Καλαϊτζίδου, Άννα (Actor/Actress)

Λαρεντζάκη, Δήμητρα (Actor/Actress)

Μαρκοπούλου, Πηνελόπη (Actor/Actress)

Μαρματάκη, Νατάσα (Actor/Actress)

Μορφούλη, Μερόπη (Actor/Actress)

Μουρατίδου, Έλσα (Actor/Actress)

Μπεγιάζη, Μαρία (Actor/Actress)

Ντουμούζη, Άννυ (Actor/Actress)

Πίσση, Ερατώ (Actor/Actress)

Σαρόγλου, Δέσποινα (Actor/Actress)

Σωφρονίδου, Ευανθία (Actor/Actress)

Τσιλιγκαρίδου, Ρεβέκκα (Actor/Actress)

Actors
Apostolou Evgenia (EN)

Actors
Karellis Dimitris, 1943-2007 (EN)

Theater directors, Choreographer
Rigos Konstantinos, 1967- (EN)

Tragic poets
Sophocles, 496 B.C.-406 B.C. (EN)

Costumiers, Stage designers
Zarifis Damianos, 1946-2007 (EN)

Actors
Perlegas Giannos, 1981- (EN)

Actors
Kolovos Dimitris, 2025- (EN)

Description

Η Δηιάνειρα, γυναίκα του Ηρακλή, περιμένει με αγωνία, στην Τραχίνα, να μάθει νέα για την τύχη του άντρα της που λείπει. Ένας απεσταλμένος του Ηρακλή καταφτάνει και αναγγέλλει την επιστροφή του. Μαζί του φέρνει και μια νέα και όμορφη αιχμάλωτη, την Ιόλη. Σύντομα, αποκαλύπτεται ότι η Iόλη είναι ερωμένη του Ηρακλή. Η Δηιάνειρα, απελπισμένη από έρωτα και ζήλια, αποφασίζει να διεκδικήσει την καρδιά του άντρα της με μάγια. Όμως ο κόσμος της Τραχίνας είναι σκοτεινός-και τα πάθη των ανθρώπων τυφλά. Οι Τραχίνιες συγκροτούν έναν κόσμο ζοφερό και αβυσσαλέο, μέσα και έξω από τις ψυχές των πρωταγωνιστών του. Αποτελεί για πολλούς ένα από τα καλύτερα έργα του Σοφοκλή, μια παράδοξα 'σύγχρονη' τραγωδία του σκότους και της τύφλωσης, όπου πλάι και μέσα στους ανθρώπους δεν ζούνε οι θεοί αλλά τα τέρατα. (EL)

This tragedy is concerned with Heracles' tragic end. For fifteen months the hero has been away from Trachis, where his family is staying. His wife, Dianeira, is worried and sends their eldest son, Hyllos, to find out where his father is. Meanwhile, the herald Lichas, arrives with a number of captive girls, to tell that Heracles will soon return as conqueror from Oechalia. However, Dianeira, learns from another messenger, that her husband has made, this war, merely to obtain king Egypros' young and beautiful daughter, Iole, who in now among the captives. When the unhappy woman hears this, as she wishes to keep Heracles for herself, she sends him by Lichas a new robe, which, in her innocence, she has dyed, with a love philtre at the advice, of the centaur Nessos. Meanwhile, something makes her suspect that the supposed philtre, is in fact lethal. Her suspicions are confirmed by the return of Hyllos, who, full of rage with his mother and grief for the fate of Heracles, reveals that the robe was fatal: it is devouring the hero's flesh. Dianeira enters silently into the palace and takes her own life. Soon Heracles is brought in, sunk in lethargy, in a pitiable condition. When he comes to himself, he asks Hyllos to bring him face to face with Dianeira to avenge himself. But he learns about the Centaur's philtre, and connects it with an ancient prophecy of Zeus of Dodona about his death, and knows that his end has come. He adjures his son to marry Iole, and gives him his final instructions for the preparation of his funeral pyre. (EN)

Type

Θεατρική παράσταση (EL)

Cultural production
Play (EN)

Spatial

Θέατρο Δάσους (EL)

Forest (Dassous) Theatre (EN)

Temporal

20/07/2004

Modern Greece
Regime change (EN)

Year

20/07/2004 (EN)

Subject