“You might be interested to know that Peer Gynt was a real person. He lived in Gudbrandsdal, probably at the end of the last or the beginning of this century,” wrote Ibsen to his publisher in 1867.

If Peer Gynt did indeed exist, he must have been full of contradictions, either a liar or a fantasist. He challenged life head-on or shrank from it, attempted the impossible or avoided everything, defied reality or tried to run away from it, chased fortune or was a slave to wishful thinking, travelled to the ends of the earth or wandered around locations that he could see only in his mindΆs eye, searched for himself or for an escape, was “enough to himself”, so that he would go down in history, or remained a simple, humble “button”, like most people.

IbsenΆs masterpiece, inspired by Norwegian fairy-tales and legends, is a romantic work that manages at the same time to be absolutely modern, about a blind Odyssey of the West, about dreams and the path to their realisation. Or perhaps their

duration
2 hours and 15 minutes (inluding the intermission)

creation team

    Giorgos Depastas
    Translator

    Dimitris Lignadis
    Direction & Adaptation

    Eleni Gini
    Dramaturg

    Apollon Papatheoharis
    Designer

    Sakis Birbilis
    Lighting

    Giannis Christodoulopoulos
    Music

    Anastasia Valsamaki
   
    Anastasia Diamantopoulou
    Assistant director

    Maria Zygouri
    Assistant costume designer

    Sotiris Mitsoulas
    Assistant set designer

    Eri Kyrgia
    Dramaturg

cast

    Michalis Afolayan
    Stefania Goulioti
    Ieronymos Kaletsanos
    Dimitris Lignadis
    Dimitris Mothonaios
    Νancy Boukli
    Zoe Mylona
    Panos Papadopoulos
    Katerina Patsiani
    Vangelis Romios
    Gioulika Skafida
    Spiros Tsekouras
    Yannis Tsoumarakis
    Giorgis Tsouris