Loizidis Theatre Group Returns to New York

The Leonidas and Eftychia Theatre Group returns to New York this fall to present the classic Greek tragedy Euripides play “Helen” in La MaMa ETC, 74A East 4th Street. After mounting two successful off-Broadway runs of Aeschylus’s Oresteia (2010) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris (2011), Leonidas Loizidis’s acting troupe decided to return to the American city and do another play this time.

Produced and directed by award-wining Leonidas Loizidi, “Helen” features an outstanding performance by acclaimed actress Eftychia Loizidis and a new adaptation of the play into modern English poetry by Louis Markos, English and Honors Professor and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University.

On Sunday, September 16 and 23 at 7pm, Loizidis will also present “Kaddish to a Life not Lived.” In this moving monologue, written by Michalis Kokkinaris, translated by Despines Kontaxis, and performed by Eftychia Loizidi, a Jewish woman named Sarah shares her final thoughts before being killed at Auschwitz. In unforgettable words, she mourns for the life that she will never live with the man she loves, the children she will never hold in her arms, and the simple dreams she will never see fulfilled.

The “Helen” performance will be from September 11-23. Tickets are now available with attractive discounts, while the Loizidis Group invites the audience to buy pre-sale tickets now for only $55 ($35 for students and retirees), and “secure a seat for the only original ancient Greek tragedy presented in [the] city,” noting that “by purchasing a ticket, you will become an important part of our effort to promote and preserve authentic Greek civilization.”

Source: http://helen-oftroy.blogspot.com/