Poetry Day
On the occasion of International Poetry Day, on Thursday 21 March at 7 pm, FOUGARO welcomes once again Olia Lazaridou for an evening of reading at the Library.
The accomplished actor, well known for her profound relationship with literature, selects and recites some of her favourite Greek and international poems. With her, to sing poems set to music, will be AImiliani Stavrianidou and Ariadni Konstantakopoulou, the actors from the Theophilos play which is staged and on show at FOUGARO GALLERY till the end of March.
Olia Lazaridou
A graduate of the school of the Art Theatre Karolos Koun, in her early acting days with the Art Theatre she performed in tragedies and in Goldoni’s Servant of two masters, directed by G. Lazanis.
She worked also with Elli Lambeti in Filumena Marturano, directed by M. Bolognini, and with the Jenny Karezi-Costas Kazakos company in Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by Jules Dassin; the following year she worked again with Dassin in the National Theatre’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House. In 1986 she left for France, where she attended classes at the school of Α. Vitez. Since her return to Greece she has worked in leading roles with most of the older and younger generation of stage directors, including Terzopoulos, Vogiatzis, Houvardas, Papaioannou.
She has directed five plays, published three poetry collections and awarded three times for her acting in Greek films.
