Platon Mavromoustakos
Fellow
Platon Mavromoustakos is Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has collaborated with many theatre organizations in Athens, directed research projects and published on twentieth century theatre and stage directing, ancient drama in modern times, modern Greek theatre, reception of Italian Opera and French theatre. He is a founding member of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama and member of its coordination committee. His books include Theatre in Greece 1940-2000. A Survey (2005), Outlines for Readings (2006), essays on European and Modern Greek authors, and In Lieu of Critique (2006), a collection of critiques. Among other works, he is the editor of Yannis Sideris, History of Modern Greek Theatre 1794-1944, Karolos Koun Performances (2008), Theatre of Piraeus (2013), co-editor in French (with V. Broze, L. Couloubaritsis et. al.) of Le Mythe d’Hélène (2005) and (with S. Felopoulou) of Relations France-Grèce: Le théâtre des années 1960 à nos jours (2017).
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Platon Mavromoustakos is Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has collaborated with many theatre organizations in Athens, directed research projects and published on twentieth century theatre and stage directing, ancient drama in modern times, modern Greek theatre, reception of Italian Opera and French theatre. He is a founding member of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama and member of its coordination committee. His books include Theatre in Greece 1940-2000. A Survey (2005), Outlines for Readings (2006), essays on European and Modern Greek authors, and In Lieu of Critique (2006), a collection of critiques. Among other works, he is the editor of Yannis Sideris, History of Modern Greek Theatre 1794-1944, Karolos Koun Performances (2008), Theatre of Piraeus (2013), co-editor in French (with V. Broze, L. Couloubaritsis et. al.) of Le Mythe d’Hélène (2005) and (with S. Felopoulou) of Relations France-Grèce: Le théâtre des années 1960 à nos jours (2017).
December 6, 2017
In this interview, IRC-Fellow Platon Mavromoustakos, a Professor at the Department of Theater Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, talks about his research project and interest in ancient Greek drama. Born in Alexandria and raised in Greece, Mavromoustakos explains how he has always been seeing his identity as separated in parts, which proved to be influential for his life and work. After having received a degree in law, he changed to theater studies (in Paris) and was a member of the Athens Department for Theater Studies from its first year on. He is a co-founder of Arc-Net, that brings together the different disciplines working on the subject of ancient Greek drama and theater. In this interview, Mavromoustakos explains his special interest in the category of space and on how ancient Greek drama has been working as a factor of reshaping performance spaces throughout theater history.