INNOVATIVE • INTERACTIVE • IMMERSIVE • NEW PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE IN GREECE
2024 - 2026
DARKPLAY THEATRE perform original, specially created works with a basis in ancient Hellenic myth and culture.
We are a not-for-profit project that brings together a multinational team of young, internationally trained emerging artists whose combined experience spans theatre, performance art, music, and multimedia.
Since 2024, we
have delivered revolutionary
sold-out live experiences including
METRO, MYTH and MEMORY •
PHAEA - THE SHADOW OF FATE • NAKED SNAKES
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UNSEEN
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I AM THE LABYRINTH • SECRET SPACES I-IV • LABYRINTH 2.0 • SHE WHO LOVES SILENCE.
We honour the deathless gods with our work, our bodies and our hearts,
and our performances are dedicated to
DIONYSUS:
Lord of festivity, insanity, ritual madness, divine ecstasy, and Theatre.
We continue to develop artistic projects, build our international presence and create exciting new performances.
Thank You and Welcome to our World.
Your Journey begins Here.
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AUGUST 2026 :
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METRO, MYTH & MEMORY
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• BODY AND THE CITY •
We returned to Echodrasi space in Koukaki for an exciting premiere of a new multimedia performance, attended by an international audience!
A young woman travels through the Athens Metro carrying memories of another life. As the familiar world slowly dissolves into dreams, she encounters the timeless voice of Isis. Music, movement, poetry and multimedia combine in an intimate theatrical experience exploring memory, identity and transformation.
A collaboration between Egyptian performance artist
Kholoud Essa Yassen with Darkplay Theatre (featuring
Asma Tayeb Zeghdani) in a unique international project inspired by the journeys we make through our cities - and through ourselves..
Blending contemporary storytelling with the enduring power of ancient myth, the performance invites audiences into a world where reality and imagination meet.
This project was part of an intercultural mobility supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the European Union
JULY 2026 :
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ΦΑΙΑ – Η ΣΚΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΙΡΑΣ
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• A SONG OF THE SILVER SEA •
A stunning set of sold-out performances and rave reviews for our new production in the Peloponnese!
Beside the silver sea of the Corinthian Gulf, the space of Petrosophy was transformed into a dreamlike ritual landscape filled with music, movement and memory. With roots stretching back to Hesiod, the performance revisits the legend of Phaea. In this new dramatic interpretation, audiences discover the forgotten human story behind the legend, with immersive theatre, physical performance, live music, multimedia and poetic narration.
The performance was presented by a unique multi-generational cast composed largely of residents from Agioi Theodori and the wider Corinthia region, bringing together children, emerging performers and older local residents. For many participants, this is their first experience in an immersive theatrical production!
Darkplay Theatre extends sincere thanks to PETROSOPHY and everyone who contributed top the production, including the performers, volunteers, staff and audiences who helped make the performances such a memorable experience
JUNE 2026 :
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ΓΥΜΝΑ ΦΙΔΙΑ
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• NAKED SNAKES •
A packed and riotious debut at the famous Red Jasper Cabaret Festival in Kypseli! Naked Snakes is an interactive techno cabaret performance inspired by the myth of Tiresias - a liminal figure who lived between bodies, identities and situations, and was punished with blindness for what he learned.
The performance unfolds as a sequence of transformations. Tiresias moves between man and woman, between vision and blindness, between knowledge and punishment - not as a symbol, but as an experience.
Structured as a hybrid cabaret, the show combines jazz, industrial electronic music, dialogue and direct interaction The space functions simultaneously as a stage and a ritual field: an environment where identities are unstable, the body becomes a site of contradiction and the audience is involved in the very act of viewing.
Featuring Denia Mimerini, Mariam Cassie, Walter Lee Rooks and original music by Wolfgang in London
TIRANA 2025 :
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UNSEEN
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This special performance was first shown at the Anna Lindh Foundation International Conference in Tirana. In partnership with
CCIF Malta
we use a range of interactive and immersive theatre techniques, multimedia and physical theatre to explore the lives of marginalised, invisible presences in modern cities.
The performance explores how this invisibility is sometimes chosen and imposed by both the subject and the community, individually and collectively, for a range of reasons. Fear of consequences, shame, “otherness/othering” along with economic and demographic factors. Yet even when the barriers of visibility are removed, intentionally or otherwise, challenges remain. It is a road that we must travel as individuals, not as institutions. Beyond advocacy, activism, and public service, the journey begins with opening our eyes to the truth in front of us.
In line with the mission of Darkplay Theatre to share Hellenic culture and traditions to a wider audience, this performance references ancient Greek mythology and history, with narratives and archetypes which are still directly relevant and meaningful.
Featuring Nina Frantzeskaki, Riginos Riginou, Darkplay Theatre.
2025 : LABYRINTH 2.0 / I AM THE LABYRINTH
THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL SHOWS CONTINUED in the STAGES, STREETS and SCREENS of ATHENS in 2025
Inspired by the timeless, violent psychodramas of classical Greek mythology; the stunning visual experience of Artaud’s
Theatre of Cruelty; and the wildly popular immersive theatre of
Punchdrunk.
I AM THE LABYRINTH
and
LABYRINTH 2.0
are exciting, imaginative and transformative storytelling experiences retelling the ancient Minoan myth cycle, using interactive theatre, dance, live music, poetry, multimedia and large-scale site-specific immersion. After successful debuts at the Epi Kolonno Off Off festival and Xoros2510 summer festival, the performances moved to PLYFA space to rave reviews and packed houses.
An innovative new storytelling and performance art experience in the birthplace of theatre!
“I abandon myself to the fever of dreams.”
Antonin Artaud
2025 : SECRET SPACES I-IV
A chaotic, impossibly immersive street theatre production that guided audiences from a busy metro to a traditional cafe, then a deserted underpass and finally into a darkened indoor space for a blindfold mystery rite followed by a cathartic masked bacchanalia, using retro MP3 players, fortune telling, street interactions, modern dance and original music to tell a powerful story of sacrifice and to celebrate the true history of Koukaki. These daring guerilla theatre experiences encompassed sell-out audiences, police complaints, people gate-crashing the theatre, and transformative, liberating performance art.
These shows were provocative, magical, exciting and unpredictable, and no two nights are remotely the same.
“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy."
Nietzsche
REVIEWS
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SECRET SPACES
" ...a city you never knew :
a walking adventure in darkened streets and hidden places ... "
• "We couldn't tell any more what was real and what was theatre"
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I AM THE LABYRINTH
"A bold theatrical venture that
brings to life the ancient myth
..."
• "The performances of the actors are
remarkable, giving depth to the mythological characters ..."
• "... manages to create an
impressive sense of immersion in the viewer, allowing them to become part of the energy of the numerous cast moving on stage, but also among the audience ..."
• "The show stood out with its
imposing
directorial character ..."
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Read the full review from Independent.GR
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"Sold out from the first show and for every show,
I AM LABYRINTH
is
a phenomenon, created by young and mysterious creators, to stir the waters ..."
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“I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.”
Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
DARKPLAY THEATRE : THE MISSION
Darkplay Theatre is a legally constituted Social Cooperative Enterprise (KOINSEP) and artistic organization with a mission to bring Greek culture with respect, creativity and imagination to new and non-traditional audiences through innovative performing arts, theatre and multimedia, encouraging, representing and recruiting performers and contributors from all communities.
AΦM:
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ΓΕΜΗ:
180898361000 •
ΔΟΥ:
ΚΕΦΟΔΕ ΑΤΤΙΚΗΣ
NAME:
ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΣΥΝΕΤΑΙΡΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΗΣ ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΣ
Theatres, Venues and Collaborators: CONTACT US for details on the production and performance.
Following a strict non-profit model, all funds raised from ticket sales, donations, funding and other revenue streams are committed 100% to current and future production costs (and associated admin/overheads). No profits, surpluses or investments are shared, returned and distributed, no funders/investors receive payments of any kind (including gifts or gifts in kind), and the voluntary management board receive no salaries for their board roles.
We are also participating members of the Anna Lindh Foundation Greek Network which works to bring together people and organizations from the two sides of the Mediterranean, focusing on development through education and training.
"I myself am an absolute abyss"
Artaud
The mission is to present important and complex stories in a way that is profoundly artistic, exciting and innovative. Improvisational, interactive and visually engaging performances take us on a personal and collective journey, and transforms the audience into empowered, inspired participants who shape and share the culture they live in, rather than simply receiving passively as atomised consumers.
We encourage connections with non-traditional theatre audiences through the internationalist, multimedia framework of the project, as a way of bringing people back to the essential experience of theatre as storytelling, sensation, ritual and transformation.
We are also dedicated to the cultural exchange of ideas, to creating a community of artists and creators, and to offering opportunities for new ideas and creative movements.
We are committed to true diversity in casting and crew, to reflect the different cultures embodied in the myths and present in the world today, to give a voice to wider communities and encourage participation in theatre and the arts,
and to embed the value and presence of performers and crew from all backgrounds into the theatrical industry of Greece
"Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius."
Nietzsche
CODA : WHY GREEK THEATRE IS SO IMPORTANT
Greek theatre represents the world's starting point for the dramatic arts, for the writing, performance and staging of stories for a diverse audience, for the democratisation of both the creation and the enjoyment of the arts, for the independence and separation of art from official religions or state power.
It gives us the evolving exchange of cultures, craft and creativity, the core elements of dramaturgy, and the individual and the collective voice as vessels of communication.
The creators respect and treasure this amazing tradition - the writers, philosophers and poets whose names have passed down the centuries, and the stories and themes which are as relevant today as they have ever been.
This project explicitly aims to preserve, celebrate and continue the fundamental essence of Hellenic theatre with an internationalist perspective, while bringing new ideas, technologies and interpretations to storytelling and communication. Greece must remain a vital and vibrant centre of theatrical life, and this project will strengthen the relationships between creators, partner organisations, supporters of the arts and audiences through innovation, experimentation, meaningful and memorable experiences.
“The theatre, which … makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To
break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.”
"The Theatre and Its Double". Artaud
We honour the deathless gods with our work, our bodies and our hearts, and our performances are dedicated to
Dionysus,
Lord of festivity, insanity, ritual madness, divine ecstasy, and theatre.
DARKPLAY : THE TEAM
A multi-disciplinary group of artists, performers and crew based in and from Greece and the world.
GREECE • LONDON • EGYPT • AMERICA • INDIA • SICILY • ALGERIA • CYPRUS
DARKPLAY THEATRE CORE ENSEMBLE
Director / Σκηνοθεσία - Σύλληψη:
Ρηγίνος Ρηγίνου
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Riginos Riginou
Movement Director:
Νίνα Φραντζεσκάκη
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Nina Frantzeskaki
Μάριαμ Kάσυ •
Mariam Cassie
Δένια Μιμερίνη •
Denia Mimerini
Walter Lee Rooks
Χριστίνα Σωτηρίου • Christina Sotiriou
Νίνα Φραντζεσκάκη • Nina Frantzeskaki
CREATIVE TEAM
Sound Composers / Writers:
Wolfgang In London, K
Performing Arts, Design and Semiotics
Mαγδαληνή Παπανικολοπούλου
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Magdalena Papanikolopoulou
Artistic Director:
K
SUMMER 2026 ADDITIONAL CREDITS
CREW
Producer: Πέτρα Τέρζι •
Petra Terzi
MakeUp: Βιβή Μιχαλάκη • Vivi Michalaki
Lights and Staging: Τζούλια Λογκάτσεβα •
Julia Logacheva
Box office: Σοφία Κωνσταντινίδη •
Sofia Konstantinidi
CAST
Kholoud Essa Yassen
Asma Tayeb Zeghdani
Αγγελική Πατσατζή •
Aggeliki Patsatzi
Άδωνις Γαϊτάνος
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Adonis Gaidanos
Αθηνά Γιαννακού •
Athina Giannakou
Ελευθερία Βούλγαρη •
Eleftheria Boulgari
Βιβή Μιχαλάκη •
Vivi Michalaki
Εμμανουέλα Ζαφειρούδη
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Emanouela Zafiroudi
Ερμιόνη Κεφαλληνού •
Ermioni Kefallinou
Ιωάννης Ντόβας • Ioannis Dovas
Κατερίνα Βούλγαρη •
Katerina Boulgari
Παρασκευή Βούλγαρη •
Paraskevi Boulgari
Σπύρος Μασούρης •
Spyros Masouris
Στέφανος Ρίσκας •
Stefanos Riskas
Πολυξένη
• Polyxeni
LABYRINTH/SECRET SPACES 2024-2025 ENSEMBLE
CREW
Sound Composers / Writers:
Wolfgang In London, K
Vocalists: Κατερίνα Αλεξάκη • Katerina Alexaki • Σοφία Γεωργοπούλου • Sophia Georgeopoulou • Cristina Cyair
Titles created by: Mαγδαληνή Παπανικολοπούλου • Magdalena Papanikolopoulou
CAST
Μάριαμ Kάσυ • Mariam Cassie
Σοφία Κωσταρά • Sophia Kostara
Δέσποινα Λαγουδάκη • Despina Lagoudakis
Katia LeClerc O'Wallis
Έρη Μαριόγλου • Eri Marioglou
Δένια Μιμερίνη •
Denia Mimerini
Zeshan Rodrigues
Walter Lee Rooks
Χριστίνα Σωτηρίου • Christina Sotiriou
Νίνα Φραντζεσκάκη • Nina Frantzeskaki
PLYFA 2024 ADDITIONAL CREDITS
CREW
Assistant Director: Νίνα Σωτηροπούλου •
Nina Sotiropoulou
Costume Design: Sara Kowalczyk
Light Design: Παναγιώτης Λάμπης •
Panagiotis Lambis
Usher: Πέτρα Τσέλιου •
Petra Tseliou
Marketing Manager:
Ισμήνη δασκαρόλης
•
Ismene Daskarolis
CAST
Margarita Fernandez
Χρήστος Τζοβάρας •
Christos Tzovaras
Γιώργος Παπαδάκος •
Giorgos Papadakos
Μάιρα Σιδεριδου •
Mayra Sideridou
Ιόλη Φιλιππακόπουλου •
Ioli Filippakopoulou
Ηλιάνα Αντωνιάδου •
Iliana Antoniadou
Έρη Μαριόγλου •
Eri Marioglou
Jonathan Ciccarelli
Αντζελίν Μαυρουλίδη •
Angelene Mavroulides
Adam Tyrrell
Μαριλένα Τουτουδακη • Marilena Toutoudaki
SECRET SPACES 2025 ADDITIONAL CREDITS
CREW
Vocalists: Σοφία Γεωργοπούλου •
Sofia Georgeopoulou
Featuring additional music by:
Elika Hawkins (Hidden Matter)
CAST
Σοφία Γεωργοπούλου
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Sofia Georgeopoulou
Λίλη Τέγου
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Lily Tegou
LABYRINTH 2.0 2025 ADDITIONAL CREDITS
CREW
Light Design: Παναγιώτης Λάμπης •
Panagiotis Lambis
CAST
Παύλος Addimando •
Pavlos Addimando
Ιόλη Φιλιππακόπουλου • Ioli Filippakopoulou
Γιώργος Βασιλόπουλος • George Vasilopoulos
Σοφία Κωσταρά • Sophia Kostara
Δέσποινα Λαγουδάκη • Despina Lagoudakis
Έρη Μαριόγλου • Eri Marioglou
Νικόλας Χατζηβασιλειάδης • Nikolas Chatzivasileiadis
We honour the deathless gods with our work, our bodies and our hearts, and our performances are dedicated to
Dionysus,
Lord of festivity, insanity, ritual madness, divine ecstasy, and theatre.
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