THE BROKEN JUG
by Heinrich von Kleist
Director: Akilas Karazisis & Nikos Hatzopoulos
From 10 December 2022
Heinrich von Kleist was inspired to write The Broken Jug by an eighteenth-century copper engraving and a personal challenge as to whether he could write a comedy. First staged by Goethe in 1808 in Weimar, the play presents Adam, a judge who is called on to establish who broke a historic jug in the bedroom of Eve, an offence for which he himself is the main suspect. Eve's mother sues her fiancé, and the plot thickens... The audience knows from the outset who broke the jug, but the outcome of the trial remains uncertain as, with comic suspense, we see how the Establishment covers up its own misdeeds.
Kleist, the great 19th century writer who influenced diverse movements from realism to expressionism and existentialism, has the judge investigate himself, comically inverting the template of the myth of Oedipus.
The Broken Jug is a masterfully rendered folk comedy that satirises social convention, the fantasies of a glorious past, travesties of justice, but also the disadvantaged position of women at the mercy of the whims of male privilege.
Production team
Translation: Giorgos Depastas
Director: Akilas Karazisis & Nikos Hatzopoulos
Sets: Clio Boboti
Costumes: Vasiliki Syrma
Music: Kostas Vomvolos
Lighting: Alekos Anastasiou
Dramaturg: Eri Kyrgia
Assistant director: Vasilis Magouliotis
Set design assistant: Aggeliki Vassiliopoulou Kampitsi
Costume design assistant: Olga Evangelidou
Cast (in alphabetical order):
Martha Frintzila, Giorgos Giannakakos, Elena-Maria Ilia, Akilas Karazisis, Alexandra Ospici, Kitty Paitazoglou, Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Christina-Melina Polyzoni, Giorgos Symeonidis, Thanos Tokakis, Nikos Hatzopoulos.
Recommended seats for best surtitles viewability: central seats in the stalls & the lower circle
Ziller Building
Wednesday & Thursday:
Premium seats €18 | Zone A €16|Zone B €15
Friday: General admission €13
Saturday, Sunday & public holidays:
Premium seats €25 | Zone A €20 | Zone B (lower circle) €18 | Zone C (upper circle) €10
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Surtitles: English, on selected dates
* Recommended seats for best surtitles viewability: central seats in the stalls & the balcony.
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ΕΔΡΑ: ΑΓΙΟΥ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ 22-24, ΑΘΗΝΑ