Epidaurus Theatre: “Hecuba – Not Hecuba”
On the main stage of the Comédie Française, the seven actors and the rest of the crew of the play “Hecuba, Not Hecuba” are feverishly preparing for the performance that, after its premiere at the Avignon Festival, will be presented at the ancient theater of Epidaurus (July 26-27). A few years after the triumphant descent of France’s longest-running theater to the Argolic orchestra with the fusion of two Euripidean tragedies (“Electra/Orestes,” directed by Ivo van Hove, in 2019), they are preparing for another major challenge, this time directed by Tiago Rodrigues. The Portuguese director and new Artistic Director of the Avignon Festival has already piqued our interest in Greece, with the most recent example being the provocative “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists,” which we saw last winter at the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi.
