Onassis Channel | Prometheus by Nikos Karathanos | Available until 05.01.23
Nikos Karathanos’s “Prometheus” is coming to bring us nothing but a blast of freedom – this time digitally. The play that had sold-out shows at the Main Stage of Onassis Stegi, now returns to our screens.
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On New Year’s Day, the Onassis YouTube Channel brings nothing but a blast of freedom for the new year. Nikos Karathanos’s “Prometheus” has its digital premiere on Sunday, January 1, at 21:00.
The internationally acclaimed artist gives us his take on this tragedy by Aeschylus, attempting, in his own words, to “mythologize daily life.” Karathanos himself, as a perceptive observer of transcendence through readings of the familiar, directs and performs as Prometheus. He recognizes each and every one of us in this character. Prometheus represents you and me and everyone, in that moment where we look upon the reality of life and it looks back at us. There is something so very ancient inside every human being that makes time bend away in shame,” he notes. Nikos Karathanos is turning his hand to ancient Greek drama for a second time, after tackling Aristophanes’ “Birds”; it is a source material that moves him because “it seems to be telling me constantly that ‘the opinions I have are my tomb, and justness is my resurrection’.”
