ACTING STUDIO – Cretan Renaissance Theater

SCENES, MONOLOGUES AND POEMS FROM CRETAN RENAISSANCE THEATER AND LITERATURE OF THAT ERA (14th – 17th c.)

SUNDAY, July 20, 2025
8:30 PM
SITIA MUNICIPAL MULTICENTER

“and whoever knows how to speak with knowledge and grace,
makes people’s eyes both weep and laugh”
Erotokritos, A΄, 889-890

Michalis Virvidakis, actor, director, and playwright, presents his work as an acting teacher. He stages a panorama of monologues and scenes from Cretan Renaissance Theater, as well as excerpts from the Poetry of that era, focusing on masterpieces by authors such as Vitsentzos Kornaros, Georgios Chortatsis, Markos Antonios Foskolos, Bergadis, and others. Younger and older students from his workshop participate.

The event is part of the parallel events of the International Conference “with knowledge and grace: issues of poetics and reception of Erotokritos” organized by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center at the Sitia Municipal Multicenter. (July 18-20, 2025)

The conference is also accompanied by other very interesting events, which you can find at the link below, where you can also view the full program of presentations: https://online.fliphtml5.com/mpxtj/kezv/