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The Library presented the world premier of
Alexandros The Musical - Between Dreams and Imagination
based on a modern epic poem by Stamatis Filippoulis.
Readings by:
Peter Marinker, Jack Parry-Jones, Susan Aderin,
Clara Onyemere, Victor Oshin, Jamie Zubairi, Andreane Rellou
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Alexandros (Alexander the Great) is hungry for knowledge as he travels ever onwards to new places, even to ‘the end of the earth’. In his world, wisdom and greatness are acquired from other cultures and through initiative and bravery.
The performance is framed around the dreams of the philosopher Aristotle, who pushes his pupil, and the audience, in and out of fantasy worlds that challenge his thinking as a leader.
Multiple characters come forward, showing that it is not just bravery and martial prowess that matter in character, but moral integrity, intelligence and compassion. The work challenges Alexandros into an identity remake.
In dreams, fantasy meets reality in the seas of the unconscious.
Visual Art Director
Paul Benney has worked as an artist and musician in both the U.S. and U.K. and is represented in public collections world wide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Australia, The National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Collection, The Eli Broad Foundation, AIG Houston, and Standard Life. Benney
Visual Art Director
Paul Benney has worked as an artist and musician in both the U.S. and U.K. and is represented in public collections world wide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Australia, The National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Collection, The Eli Broad Foundation, AIG Houston, and Standard Life. Benney has twice won the public choice award in the BP Portrait Awards and has been short listed on two occasions.
Alexandros The Musical - Book & Lyrics
Concept Director/Adaptation/Production
for the world premier
Elizabeth Filippouli is a London-based journalist, writer, and social entrepreneur.
With a longstanding passion for creative thinking, she brings to life artistic projects that raise awareness on contemporary issues and challenge established ideas.
Music
Stamatis Spanoudakis is regarded as the most prolific Greek composer of his age. He uses a rich and original musical palette conjuring up different perceptions in musical imagery.
Director-Dramaturg
Di is a playwright, librettist and poet. She began as an actor in theatre, multi-media performance and television and has directed for theatre, opera and circus.
Stamatis A. Filippoulis (1930-2014) was a Greek journalist, author and playwright, with a characteristic wit and dry sense of humour, known for his spy movies of the Greek cinema in the 1960s and theatre plays in the 1970s, and his television shows. He wrote more than 80
plays and screenplays working also with world acclaimed artists such
Stamatis A. Filippoulis (1930-2014) was a Greek journalist, author and playwright, with a characteristic wit and dry sense of humour, known for his spy movies of the Greek cinema in the 1960s and theatre plays in the 1970s, and his television shows. He wrote more than 80
plays and screenplays working also with world acclaimed artists such as Mikis Theodorakis, Vangelis Papathanassiou, Fernando Sancho, Maria
Pia Conte, Dionysis Fotopoulos. In 1994 he completed the modern epic poem ‘Mr Alexander and his Trusty Lads’, a 4000-line narrative
poem inspired by history and philosophy, taking the reader into a fascinating journey through myth and imagination and democratising the idea of greatness.
Translation by Anthony Stevens
For more than four decades Anthony Stevens taught literature and theatre, firstly in England, at De Monfort University, and then in Greece, in the International Baccalaureate section of the Moraitis School, at La Verne University Athens, and at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (
Translation by Anthony Stevens
For more than four decades Anthony Stevens taught literature and theatre, firstly in England, at De Monfort University, and then in Greece, in the International Baccalaureate section of the Moraitis School, at La Verne University Athens, and at the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (ΔΙΚΕΜΕΣ). During this time he wrote, devised and directed many plays, with work performed throughout Britain, as well as in Australia, Greece and Lebanon.
Alexander the Great is known as one of the greatest generals in all history.
Alexander was born in 356 B.C.E. in Pella, Macedonia, to King Philip II. As a young boy, Alexander was taught to read, write, and play the lyre. He developed a life-long love of reading and music. When Alexander was a teenager, his father hired Aristotle to be his private tutor. He studied with Aristotle for three years and from Aristotle’s teachings, Alexander developed a love of science, particularly of medicine and botany. Alexander included botanists and scientists in his army to study the lands he conquered.
Alexander changed the world, but not through his accomplishments on the battlefield. Alexander’s empire combined Greek culture with the customs of Persia, Egypt, India and the other lands he conquered. Later historians called this combination of cultures the Hellenistic civilization. Hellenism is a word derived from the Greeks’ traditional name for themselves. Long after Alexander’s empire fell apart, Hellenism produced great advances in science, philosophy, and drama.
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