Theatro Technis

**Theatro Technis** is an off-West End 120-seat, townhouse theatre located in Camden. It was originally founded by George Eugeniou ,  (see Wikipedia EN) and a group of actors five decades ago to meet the needs of the Cypriot community through "cultural theatre and educational activities”.

The theatre has since evolved to being a hub of multi-faceted and multi-cultural activities hosting classics, new writing, international plays from overseas companies, live Greek music events , and Greek tragedies and is embedded as a vital part of London`s multi-cultural lanscape .
Theatro Technis also holds the annual London Greek Film Festival  supported by the Thessaloniki Film Festival and ERT Greek Television.

Theatro Technis brings audiences back inside during corona

### Community Theatre

_Bloody Guarantors_, _One In Seven_ ,_The Vandals are Coming_, _Dowry with Two White Doves_,  _Afrodite Unbound_  _The National Engagement_, _A Revolutionary Nicknamed Roosevelt_, _The Best of Tofias_, _Contract_, _Hands Tied,Tied Hand_, _Gringland_ , _Searching for the Lemons_, _The Fire Burns where it Falls_ ,and _Two Lives” and “Cyprus Trilogy_

Theatro Technis initiated "1967, Cyprus Week" , an annual festival to highlight the Cypriot culture and way of life in the United Kingdom and to create a greater awareness of the struggle of Cyprus against British colonialism and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus..

### Greek Cypriot diaspora dramatists

Theatro Technis has showcased the work of new Greek Cypriot diaspora dramatists like Stavros Lilitos whose work was celebrated with the revival of his _The Old Suitcase_ and _Under the Carob Trees_ in 1979 at Theatro Technis, and performed in both the Greek and English languages._Don Camillo_ was another play performed in the Greek Language.

### Ancient Greek Drama

- Sophocles Oedipus King Aristophanes' famous satires, as _Women in Parliament_, in June 2013.
- 'Prometheus Bound' by Aeschylus
- Medea by Euripides  and George Eugeniou`s modern adaptation of Medea titled “A Hole in the Heart “
- Adaptation of Aristophanes The Knights named _Oh Democracy!_

For the full list of ancient Greek drama directed by George Eugeniou at Theatro Technis view Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama the Classic Centre at the University of Oxford.

### International Theatre Showcase

International plays include the French and Spanish language performance of “Le Petit Prince” , and “La Casa de Bernad a Alba “ respectively, the premiere of Griselda Gambaro `s Siamese Twins , Jonathan Lovett for The Stage : "Receiving a worthy tribute, in its long overdue UK premiere, this atmospheric production succeeds in weaving comedy into menace, and vice versa, helped by Kostas Panagiotou evocative score". "Brilliantly capturing a period of mistrust and state-sponsored violence, she turned to the story of Cain and Abel, depicting one brother destroying another while adding some deeply unsavoury characters on the side of the police." and Japan`s Mugensha Theatre Company." Theatro Technis booked us. The founder, George Eugeniou, is a Cypriot, so I think he was sympathetic to foreign dramatists such as us, Mugensha Theatre Company Nobuko Tanaka about George Eugeniou, "Japan Times",30 October 2008

## New Writing

Theatro Technis featured John Guare`s "Bosoms and Neglect" in 1992. In 2003 Theatro Technis premiered Justin Butcher`s “The Madness of George Dubya” , reviewed by The Guardian`s Michael Billington “Satire is all but dead on the London stage, so this show by Justin Butcher deserves the warmest of welcomes. Even if it is largely a topical update of Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, it had a packed house at this north London fringe theatre cheering it to the echo.”. The successful run of “The Madness of George Dubya” at Theatro Technis led to its transfer to the Pleasance Theatre in Islington and also garnered support from celebrities such as Justin Hoffman

In his yearly review of British Theatre Billington remarked “The most cheering aspect of the year was the varied and rapid response to the Iraq crisis. At Theatro Technis, Justin Butcher wrote and directed The Madness of George Dubya - ignored by most critics until it transferred to the West End –“

## Theatro Technis actors

Andreas Markou, Stelios Kyriacou, Andy Lysandrou, Spyros Kyprianou, Maroula Eugeniou, Peter Polycarpou, Eve Polycarpou ,   Angelique Rockas,
Anna Savva, Alkis Kritikos,

George Savvides, John Eastman , Jackie Skarvellis

## Academic Citations

- Theatre of Ethnic Minorities in British theatre history has been explored in :
- Jeffers, Alison. "Introduction." Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art: The British Community Arts Movement. . London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. 1–32. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 17 Jan. 2020. .
- The Arts Britain Ignores: the Arts of Ethnic Minorities in Britain by Naseem Khan (Commission for Racial Equality, 1976)
- ‘Theatro Technis at 31’ by Andy Nicola (Artrage, Issue 20, Spring 1988, pp 14–17)

## Other websites

- http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/g/greek-diaspora-archive/  Theatro Technis on King's Collections : Archive Catalogues : GREEK DIASPORA ARCHIVE.
- https://theatrotechnis.com