The Free Besieged

Item

Title

The Free Besieged

Creator

Greek National Theatre

Spatial Coverage

Online

Subject - keywords

The exodus of Messolonghi

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Date

6 March 2021

25 April 2021

Date Issued

2021

Abstract

The Greek National Theatre presents for the first time in dramatized form one of the leading works by the national poet Dionysios Solomos “The Free Besieged”. Directed by Thanos Papakonstantinou, who brings to the stage an atmosphere of death and resurrection. The poet, starting from the heroic struggle of Missolonghi during the second siege of the city (1825-1826) until the heroic exit from it, refers to the struggle of man for his external and internal freedom. The work, the famous “poem of debt”, was never completed and survives in handwritten excerpts, which comprise three sketches.

(Edited and translated description from organiser’s website)