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[This interview was conducted by Ayşe Draz.] What is the essence of theatre in your opinion?  Encounter, exchange and compassion! In a theatre that works without words and with masks, empathy is a basic prerequisite for the audience and also for the players. In this way, theatre can practice this valuable human gift and entertain at the same time. And when the audience leaves the theatre with a little more courage than they came, then it was good theatre.  Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How?  Yes! Reality is transformation! Theatre is a lot about how something affects us. The German word for reality (Wirklichkeit) is related to the word effect (Wirkung). Even if we believe in things and can touch something, the universe is made of effects, something always happens and transforms Theatre can play a concentrated role in this. An open and focused person can experience transformation in the theatre and that in return has an effect back on stage.  When...

before the end of 2019, i met a new name in performing arts: euripides laskaridis. besides following the artists i know and love, i enjoy discovering new artists i haven’t known before. however, only a few of the shows, which i watched with hope and anticipation by artists whom i did not know before, affects me. i watched works of many artists that i had not known before at the festivals i attended in 2019 but i did not come across a name that appealed to my heart and aroused the desire to follow until my last trip to athens.  when i went to athens to watch the last performances of dimitris papaioannou's the great tamer at the end of november 2019, one of my evenings was free and there was the world premiere of  elenit,  the new piece by euripides laskaridis, one of the former performers of papaioannou. i can say that on my trip to athens i witnessed the death of one work and the birth of another as inspired by papaioannou's description of these last performances of ...