The reading is a contemporary take on the ancient tragedy proposing a new perspective that delves into the savage world of Euripides, the last of classical Athens’s three great tragic dramatists.

Evangelatos’s own modern version of Euripides’s Hippolytus is an example of a radical approach to the classics. Katerina Evangelatos, stage director and Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, initially staged a full-scale production of the play produced by the National Theatre of Greece as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2023. This performance reading is a new version of the play with which Evangelatos continues her research on ancient drama.

The performance reading is a new abridged version of the play focusing on the dialogue between the actors and the live music performed by the composer, Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis.