“Odyssey – A Journey Within”
Three theatres
Τhree artistic approaches
Οne performance
The Telemachy – The Wanderings – The Return and Vengeance
OPEN REHEARSAL
En Athines Theatre
19 Iakchou Street (next to Kerameikos Metro Station)
October 27 | 7:00 PM
Free Admission
Greek Sign Language Interpreting
Audio Description in Greek
Caps in Greek and English
Seat reservation is required: +30 213 041 1546
In a world of constant change and uncertainty, each of us moves through our own landscape of encounters, choices, trials and questions. Along the way, we encounter others — and ourselves. The hidden places within us: our fears and desires, our weaknesses and strengths, our guilt, our hope, our longing to belong.
Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, Odyssey – A Journey Within leaves behind the epic’s familiar narrative and turns instead towards the inner journey of the human being. Odysseus’ wanderings, trials, losses and encounters become a metaphorical landscape through which timeless questions emerge: Who are we? What do we believe when certainty begins to fade? Where does personal responsibility meet the collective? Where does suffering end and the possibility of change begin? And how do we find the strength to keep moving when the way ahead becomes difficult?
Like Odysseus, Penelope or Telemachus, we are all, at once, heroes and anti-heroes. We make choices — good and bad. We fall, we lose our way, and we rise again. And, like Odysseus, we search for our own destination: a place we can call home, a place of belonging and peace. A way back to ourselves.
Odyssey – A Journey Within brings the inner world of the individual into focus — the longing to be accepted, recognised and truly seen — just as we are, in our truth, free to be who we are.
The performance unfolds as an abstract mosaic of theatrical images. Three distinct artistic visions come together like the panels of a triptych, creating a single, shared stage work.
Three European theatres meet in this artistic journey: THEAMA Inclusive Theatre from Greece, Compagnia Berardi Casolari from Italy, and PLAVO Theatre – Theatre Laboratory from Serbia.
The performance was created within the European project We Want More, whose vision is to expand the boundaries of accessibility in theatre. Bringing together different artistic poetics, experiences and ways of expression, Odyssey – A Journey Within explores the possibility of a theatre that belongs to everyone — a space where performers and audiences alike can recognise something of themselves, encounter experiences different from their own, and feel part of a community of equals. Without exception.
We All Need Theatre
ΘΕΑΜΑ Συμπεριληπτικό Θέατρο – Theama Inclusive Theatre
Plavo Pozoriste
FEDAPAS
Associazione Culturale Eutopia
ATER Fondazione
São Luiz Teatro Municipal
Γραφείο Δημιουργική Ευρώπη Ελλάδας
Creative Europe
ATLAS E.P.
Elena Zorogiannidi
El Batz
