A visit in Aristophanes\u2019 play
\nAdaptation-Original Text-Songs: Foivos Delivorias
\nDirection-Conception: Nikos Karathanos
\nCo-Director: Angelos Triantafyllou<\/p>\n
![\"eirini_A_giounanli_0934\"](\"https:\/\/www.festivalandros.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/eirini_A_giounanli_0934-600x900.jpg\")
Who will be alive in the summer?
\nAnd who will be alive tomorrow?
\nNeither time knows this
\nNor does the star
\nFrom Epidaurus
\nOnce again nations fall
\nTo pieces
\nListen to my sweet melody
\nFrom the edge of this pit
\nWith the dead bodies
\nMake a wish for Peace
\nMiss Universe
\nBecause my every war
\nIs between myself and I
\nIt\u2019s s a civil war<\/p>\n
Peace is a celebration of a lost rural world; a comical, irresistible argument; a folk festival made out of the very smoke of war; a burning curtain amidst horror.<\/p>\n
Nikos Karathanos, Foivos Delivorias and Angelos Triantafyllou are the main partners in crime of a new performance, a new adaptation, a response to madness with madness.<\/p>\n
Aristophanes’ original comedy was first performed at the City Dionysia festival in 421 BC, winning second prize. It was written at a critical historical moment shortly before the Peace of Nicias, as a reaction to the hope for a cessation of hostilities, which rose thanks to the death of war-loving generals Cimon from Athens and Vrasidas from Sparta in the Battle of Amphipolis. With its lyrical eloquence and Aristophanes\u2019 familiar sarcasm, the comedy reflects how tired society was of the Peloponnesian War, highlighting the irrational obsession with war and its destructive consequences on people’s daily life, work and happiness. Aristophanes contrasts warmongers\u2019 violence and profit with the fertility, love and collective prosperity brought by peace. Despite the seemingly utopian solution, the comedy is not na\u00efve; it acknowledges the resistance, interests and inertia that prevent the restoration of peace.<\/p>\n
Peace occupies a central position in Aristophanes’ work, as it is a highly conciliatory and the most optimistic of his political comedies. Despite its strong bond with the era that sparked its creation, this comedy remains timeless because it highlights a mechanism that is repeated to this day; wars that are prolonged at the expense of the many for the benefit of the few. The insistence of everyday people to claim peace, even against the logic of power, makes this play timely today, in a world where invasions, violence, threats, insecurity and cynicism continue to be presented as inevitable.<\/p>\n
ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION CREDITS
\nAdaptation \u2013 Original Text \u2013 Songs: Foivos Delivorias
\nDirection \u2013 Conception: Nikos Karathanos
\nCo-Director: Angelos Triantafyllou
\nAssociate Dramaturge: Eri Kyrgia
\nSet Design: Eva Manidaki
\nCostume: Angelos Mentis
\nMusic: Foivos Delivorias, Angelos Triantafyllou
\nLighting: Eliza Alexandropoulou
\nMovement: Amalia Bennett
\nChoreography: Alexandros Stavropoulos
\nConsultant on the ancient text: Giannis Asteris
\nAssistant Directors: Dimitris Stavropoulos, Orestis Stavropoulos
\nAssistant Set Designer: Maria Kalofouti
\n2nd Assistant Set Designer: Marilia Diafa
\nAssistant Costume Designer: Alexandra Anastasia Ftouli
\nAssistant Director: Nafsika Kirki
\nBackstage Photography: Dimitris Makris
\nPromo Photography: Elina Younanli
\nTour Manager: Katerina Kamarinopoulou
\nCommunication \u2013 Press Office: Maria Tsolaki
\nSocial Media \u2013 Advertising: Renegade Media, Vasilis Zarkadoulas
\nProduction Manager: Efi Panourgia
\nExecutive Producers: Giannis Koulouris, Katerina Kamarinopoulou
\nProduced by Texnixoros Performing Acts<\/p>\n
In co-production with Athens Epidaurus Festival.
\nThe Athens Epidaurus Festival is funded by the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n
Cast
\nGalini Hatzipashali, Thanasis Alevras, Emily Koliandri, Giannis Kotsifas, Panos Papadopoulos, Zeta Makrypoulia, Vaso Kavalieratou, Foivos Delivorias, Nikos Karathanos, Angelos Triantafyllou, Yilmaz Chousmen, Alkis Bakogiannis, Konstantinos Kontogeorgopoulos, Konstantinos Zografos, Giannis Sampsalakis, Vasilis Papadopoulos, Spyros Bosgas, Antonis Christou<\/p>\n
On-stage orchestra: Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Thodoris Rellos, Yoel Soto, Giannis Angelopoulos (Jan Van De Engel)<\/p>\n