National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

The Theatre Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens belongs to the School of Philosophy. It offers a complete spectrum of studies in the discipline of theatre on a graduate and postgraduate level.

It has an international orientation (primarily European), focusing on Greek phenomena. It addresses the following fields: history of the theatre, theory and practice of the theatre and performance analysis. It pays considerable attention to European theatre history from antiquity until today and, as expected, to Greek theatre – ancient, new and contemporary – as well as dramaturgical analysis of dramatic texts of European and Greek dramaturgy.

The foundation and legislation of theatre studies education on an academic level has had an immediate impact on secondary education, on the graduate and postgraduate level of academic studies, as well as on non-academic environment. The impressive interest of university graduates to undertake academic research concerning the Greek theatre field, mirrors the general responsiveness and sensibility regarding this subject. The Department courses are on principle accessible to all university students, but, in the form of free study, also to everyone related to the theatre (actors, directors, drama school graduates, theatre-people, theatre-lovers etc.). The Theatre Studies Department offers courses to other Departments of the School of Philosophy, in the form of joint teaching.

Contact : Michaela Antoniou; michanton@theatre.uoa.gr