Pass-Port: the Representations of the “Passage” on the Theatrical Stage
Pass-Port: the Representations of the “Passage” on the Theatrical Stage

Summary/Abstract: The discussion aims to examine the methodological approach and the representation on stage of my doctoral research entitled “Sea Journeys in Ancient Greek Tragedy” (Kings College London 2016, supervised by Edith Hall) as a result of a workshop and the rehearsals that followed. The performance Pass-Port was performed at the theatre Argo in Athens, in November 2022 . Focusing on the element of wanderings as a main axis of my study, the theoretical and practical aim of the research was to integrate the problematic of immigration and refugees, as well as the dynamics it shapes in the societies of the future through the wanderings of mortals, heroes and gods in ancient Greek tragedy. Moreover, the discussion will be focused on the dramaturgical procedure and the directorial choices regarding the stage representations, not only of the sea as a place of multiple dynamics, symbolism and interpretations, but also of the coast as a liminal space and a border between two homelands, life and death, nostos and nostalgia.

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