"The Chronicle of Cyprus" returns in a performance dedicated to Michalis Piere

Name: "The Chronicle of Cyprus" returns in a performance dedicated to Michalis Piere
Start: 2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-09-19T00:00:00+00:00
Location: "The Chronicle of Cyprus" returns in a performance dedicated to Michalis Piere

When: 19.09.2026 00:00

Organizer: Admin

The historic and multi‑award‑winning production of the Theatre Workshop of the University of Cyprus is presented again, five years after the death of the founder and director of TH.E.PA.K. The Theatre Workshop of the University of Cyprus gives a one‑and‑only performance of its historic production The Chronicle of Cyprus by Leontios Machairas, dedicated to the memory of Michalis Piere (1942‑2021), founder of TH.E.PA.K. and the Cultural Center, honoring his precious legacy, five years later. This multi‑award‑winning production, with which the Theatre Workshop began in 1998, has given its creative path numerous performances in Cyprus, in Greece and abroad: Munich, Paris, London, Barcelona, etc. Written in the 15th century, in a mixed language (between medieval modern Greek and the Cypriot dialect of the time), the Chronicle is the most important narrative (and potentially dramatic) text of medieval and later Cypriot literature. Its author, Leontios Machairas, a “local Roman”, was an exceptionally gifted figure of early modern Greek literature. A pioneering forerunner of modern Greek narrative prose, he inspired Seferis with his masterful storytelling and distilled wisdom, which captures and interprets the main events of his era in a multilayered way. In his work Explanation of the Sweet Land of Cyprus, which is called K’rónika, that is Chronikon, the collective consciousness of Cyprus is recorded as it passes from Byzantine to medieval and Renaissance fate, shaping all those historical, linguistic and cultural elements that define its particular identity up to the modern era. The theatrical form of the Chronicle, which preserves and showcases the authentic language of the original, focuses more on the dramatic events surrounding the fate of Peter I and Eleonora N’t Aragon, who ruled the independent medieval kingdom of Cyprus during a critical decade (1359‑1369). The critical reception of the work was hyperbolic and the performance was described as “a major literary and theatrical event” (Giorgos Chatzidakis, in H Καθημερινή, Athens, July 19, 1998). While, beyond the reviews in Greek and Cypriot press, the significance of the performance for the historic self‑knowledge of the people of Cyprus was emphasized by distinguished professor of medieval history at Cardiff University, Wales, Peter W. Edbury (Journal of Medieval History, vol. 25, no. 1, 1999) and the Catalan Hellenist Eusebi Ayensa Prat, in an analytical review of the performance in the Spanish literary journal Erytheia. Revista de Estudios Bizantinos y Neogriegos (vol. 20, Madrid, 1999), notes among other things that “the performance highlights one of the most important texts of medieval Cypriot literature and a precursor of the texts of the Cretan Renaissance”.Adaptation‑direction: Michalis Pieris Music bridges: Antonis Xylouris‑Psarantonis Song composition: Evangelos Karagiannis Song lyrics: Michalis Pieris Scenery, costumes: Christos Lysiotis Lighting: George Koukomas Lighting operation, technical support: Kyriacos Kakoulis Production manager, assistant director: Stamatia Laoumtzi CAST Leontios Machairas: Chariton Iosephidis Peter I: Grigoris Papagregorios Eleonora d’Aragon: Myria Hadzimathaiou Joanna L’Alaman: Christina Pieri Juan de Morfu: Michalis Michael Civa de Scandeli: Charikleia Papagianni Juan Viskountis: Louis Gabriel Jacob I: Michalis Giakou John I: Solomon Kountouris Chief: Maria Christodoulou Women of the people Lady Loze: Maria Christodoulou Lady Maria: Georgia Liasi Bergilina: Konstantina Konstantinou Knights Chariton Iosephidis, Theophanes Panagi, Michalis Filipakis, Christopher Hatzichristoforos Bays Konstantina Konstantinou, Andri Hatzigeorgiou Guards Michalis Filipakis, Christopher Hatzichristoforos Leader Andri Hatzigeorgiou People of Cyprus Louis Gabriel, Michalis Giakou,

Tags: theatre, drama, historical

Source: https://www.checkincyprus.com/article/89045/to-khroniko-tes-kuprou-epistrephei-se-mia-parastase-aphieromene-ston-mikhale-piere/

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