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Theatre unites people. It recognises no restrictions, and has no borders or geographical, political or economic limitations. It erases the distance of time and space – and even of language. A play is the fastest way of discovering new words eras, and cultures. Even when everything had to stop temporarily, art continued to take us on journeys and connect us with one another.
Travel Through Theatre started as an exhibition at Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” in September 2022 and is a journey about the dramatists who bring us together, from antiquity to the present day. It is a tour of the lives and works of writers whose endless flights of the imagination dissolve every frontier, because culture is not the preserve of a select few - it belongs to all of us. Art reminds us that we are all passengers on a single planet, “the great globe itself”, as Shakespeare callet it, on a journey that will continue as long as humankind exists.
The greatest writers have always raised fundamental questions about life. Regardless of where they were born and what language they wrote in, they speak to all of us. We present a theatre map (by no means exhaustive) of influential playwrights who constantly show us a world outside our window and encourage us to look beyond the narrow confines of the here and now.
Dr Irene Moundraki
Curator – Head of Drama Department of the National Theatre of Greece
Travel Through Theatre was an exhibition designed and held at Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" as part of the wider cooperation between the National Theatre of Greece and the Airport. The exhibition was presented in the "Art and Culture" area on the Arrivals Level (Exit 1) and ran from September 12, 2022 to May 11, 2023.
