Date: Sunday 17 May

Time: 4pm for 4.30pm

Venue: Museum of Sydney,
Cnr Phillip and Bridge St, Sydney

Cost: Free entry (Booking essential)

Contact: 02 9750 0440

Language: Greek and English Introduction followed by the DVD screening

A tribute to Karolos Koun and the Greek Art Theatre.

The event presents Aristophanes’ most popular comedy THE BIRDS (441BC) first staged by the Greek Art Theatre in 1959 with the participation of Greek leading artists (Tsarouhis, Hadjidakis, Nikoloudi, Rotas).

Fed up with the artifices of their contemporary social, political and religious life, two Athenians, Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, decide to establish a new city up in the clouds in partnership with the birds.

To ensure that justice and pleasure will rule in the new city, they send away humans who offer to help and issue an embargo on both the Olympian and Barbarian Gods. A tribute to the director Karolos Koun and to a world famous innovative production of Theatro Technis.

Dr Kyriaki Frantzi
Lecturer in Greek Studies


Born in Greece, studied History, Archaeology and Theatre in Athens. She is currently teaching  Greek language and culture at the University of New South Wales. 

Her research areas include gender, performance, and the acquisition of Greek as a second language.