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Royal Theatre (Thessaloniki)
The Royal Theatre of Thessaloniki (Greek:Βασιλικό Θέατρο Θεσσαλονίκης) is the seat of the National Theatre of Northern Greece and one of the institution’s winter stages. It is located at 2, 30th October Avenue in White Tower Square in Thessaloniki and has a capacity of 683 seats. History It was built by the architect and urban planner Konstantinos Doxiadis and was originally intended to serve as the summer stage of the National Theatre in Thessaloniki, but it was quickly changed to function as a winter stage. In 1940 the construction was completed and in July of the same year the theatre was inaugurated with the staging of the Shakespeare's Richard III play, starring Alexis Minotis. During the years of Nazi Occupation it initially housed various cultural events of the German authorities and as of 1943 it became the headquarters of the Thessaloniki State Theatre. In 1961/62 it served for a short time as the first seat of the Theatre of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In Thessaloniki
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
