"What Socrates, and philosophy, is all about."
The Performance
The Apology of Socrates features a theatrical solo performance by the Emmy Award winner Yannis Simonides and is directed by Broadway and television veteran Loukas Skipitaris. Oscar and Tony Award winner Theoni Vahliotis Aldredge is the costume designer, with percussive support by Caryn Heilman, a Paul Taylor veteran dancer-musician. The English translation is by Yannis Simonides and Loukas Skipitaris. This is a presentation of the Greek Theatre of New York in association with Theatron Inc.
The Apology premiered in New York in 2003 and has since been performed to great acclaim at the United Nations, the Athens Agora, the NBC Today Show, and in theatres,festivals, schools, universities and libraries across the US, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the UK (where it recently completed a tour of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities). In the last two years it has been presented at the European Center at Delphi, in Athens under the Akropolis, in Thessaloniki, Patras, Crete and various festivals in the Aegean, in Greek and in English, as well as in Dubai and in Montevideo where it played to 2000 students from across Uruguay, in Greek and Spanish. Recently it enjoyed successful performances in Montreal and Luxembourg, and tours in the U.S., Greece, Spain, Germany and Russia are scheduled for 2009 and 2010. In September 2010 it will return to Columbia University to inaugurate the Core Curriculum for all Freshmen and Sophomores, as it is scheduled to do on a bi-annual basis since 2006. A limited Off Broadway run is contemplated, along with a publication of the performance text, in Ancient Greek and in English.