Collection volume with articles by academics and researchers on the work and contribution of Karolos Koun to Greek theater.

CONTENTS

Prologue by the editors of the publication

Introduction: Karolos Koun and the issue of defining personal and artistic identity

Platon Mavromoustakos, "The multiple in between. Karolos Koun, identity, language, aesthetics"

I. Directing outside the Art Theatre

• Konstantina Ritsatou, “From the 'Romioi symbolism' of Psychari to Koun's 'Greek popular expressionism'
• Gianna Roilou, “K. Koun / Generation of '30. The demand for Greekness in the aesthetic quests of Karolos Koun”
• Panagiota Konstantinakou, “Karolos Koun the set designer”
• Kyriaki Petrakou, “Koun at the National Theatre”

II. The Art Theatre from the time of the underground 'Orpheus' (1954) to Koun's death (1987)

Ancient Theatre

• Giorgos Sakallieros, “Giannis Chryssou – Karolos Koun: a mutually creative collaboration in ancient drama”
• Dio Kangelari, “Karolos Koun: The new thrill or the adventure of modernity towards acceptance (Ornithes and 'Ornithiaka')”
• Katia Savrami, “Word – Movement – Music in the directorial perception and action of Karolos Koun”
• Vasso Barmpouzi, “The function of choreography and music in Koun's production of Persians”
• Eleni Papazoglou, “From one Electra to another: Karolos Koun, 'tragic realism' and Greekness”

European avant-garde movements

• Konstantinos Kyriakos, “'According to the recipes of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians': Chekhov / Stanislavski / Koun”
• Sophia Felopoulou, “Karolos Koun's journey from modern drama to the avant-garde theater of the 1950s”

Modern Greek Theater

• Rea Grigoriou, “The Art Theatre and 19th century Greek dramaturgy: a peculiar relationship”
• Konstantina Stamatoyannaki, “The Courtyard of Wonders through the lens of Tasos Koutsoukou”
• Dimitra Kondylaki, “'It is good to write for someone who is waiting for you.' Loula Anagnostaki and Karolos Koun: a model relationship”
• Grigoris Ioannidis, “Karolos Koun and the return of the issue of 'nationality' in the 1970s. Thoughts and hypotheses”
• Filippos Hager, “A political event? The 'wall of silence' and the thirtieth anniversary of the Art Theatre”

III. Economic conditions and the Art Theatre during the junta and the Metapolitefsi

• Areti Vasileiou, “'Art at the end of ideology.' The Ford Foundation and Karolos Koun's Art Theatre”
• Konstantza Georgakaki, “The Art Theatre comes first into the affection of the State”: The subsidies to Karolos Koun in the first post-junta six years”