For yet another year, the Athens Epidaurus Festival is putting equal access to the arts into practice by including four accessible performances at Peiraios 260 in this year’s program. A meaningful initiative that breaks down barriers and gives culture its true, inclusive dimension.

With the invaluable collaboration of ATLAS E.P. and the cultural organization liminal, and utilizing Greek Sign Language interpretation, surtitles, tactile tours, and audio description, the performances were designed to be accessible to every audience member, without exclusion.

The four dance and theater performances that are accessible are as follows:

Stefania Goulioti

Isabella Molnar’s Diary

Thursday, June 11

Peiraios (Space E). Start time: 9:00 p.m. Duration: 75 minutes

The performance includes interpretation in Greek Sign Language, CAPS subtitles for accessibility, audio description, and a tactile tour.

Sensory access services: ATLAS E.P.

The performance, based on the short story of the same name by Dimitris Hatzis, follows sculptor Izabella Molnar on a journey into the wild world of art, where all instincts find their justification. Sculpture, with its mystery and earthy materials, takes over the stage and becomes a collective reaction to chaos, traversing decay and dissolution—only to be reborn in the end.

Alexandros Vardaxoglou

NOD

Monday 22 June

Peiraios 260 (Space Β). Start time 22.00. Duration 50’

The performance includes an audio description and a tactile tour for people with visual impairments. Sensory access services: liminal.

At NOD, we are transported to the biblical place of Cain’s exile, a space of dark wandering and oblivion, where God’s gaze has ceased. Two men—almost identical, like brothers—meet there to retrace the grim cycle of humanity, shedding light on the harsh legacy of Cain’s mark and what it reveals about us.

Themis Panou, Vilia Chatzopoulou

My mother threw me into the sea

Wednesday 1 July

Peiraios 260 (Space Β). Start time 21.30. Duration 70’

The performance includes audio description, tactile guidance, surtitles, and interpretation in Greek Sign Language for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. For this specific performance, only Greek surtitles will be available. Sensory access services: liminal.

1950. A young teacher is assigned to the Cyclades. She will make a difficult decision. To teach secretly on the neighboring island. She will do the right thing. But when you do the right thing just for the sake of doing it, is it still right? Whatever remains unconfessed keeps us innocent and multiplies within us. A monologue under the blinding Cycladic light that fades into the horizon.

Christiana Kosiari

The Kolyva

Thursday, July 23

Peiraios 260 (Venue B). Start time: 10:30 p.m. Duration: 45 minutes

The performance includes CAPS captions for accessibility, audio description, a tactile tour (to be held after the performance), and interpretation in Greek Sign Language.

Sensory access services: ATLAS E.P.

Five women over sixty meet every year to make their kollyva while they are still alive. They laugh, gossip, reminisce, and tease one another as they mix the wheat, sprinkle sugar, and garnish with pomegranate seeds. A performance that deconstructs death with humor, a gathering that honors what has been lost without forgetting what still remains.