Acting · Directing

Theatre

On stage and behind it, the same work: finding the breath a text needs and the group of people who can hold it.

Athens, Paris, Marseille — and the French stages that followed. The trajectory is a geography as much as a repertoire.

Selected Creations

Bernard-Marie Koltès

Roberto Zucco

The beginning of a journey

In Paris, Bernard-Marie Koltès opened a door.

In 2013, I walked through it.

A figure raising both arms against the sun — the beginning — 01 — Paris · The beginning

What began as an encounter with Koltès became the Roberto Zucco Project — a collective artistic journey born in Paris, bringing together twelve young actors around a shared desire: to create, to search, to encounter one another through theatre.

Elisabeth Theodorou directing her ensemble in rehearsal — 02 — The collective

I was drawn to Roberto Zucco not as a portrait of a criminal, but as a disturbing figure moving through the fractures of contemporary society — between freedom and confinement, intimacy and violence, desire and isolation.

My direction began there: with the body, the word, the space between people.

Roberto Zucco — official trailer — 03 — The trailer

The project grew from the rehearsal room into an artistic and intercultural journey, connecting Paris and Greece.

Roberto Zucco — Paris

Paris

Bernard-Marie Koltès · Contemporary theatre · Acting

The Parisian stage where the Koltèsian work began — the body, the word, and the space between two people held under a bare light.

Elisabeth Theodorou seated on stage beside a male performer in military costume with theatrical blood makeup in Roberto Zucco, Paris — Roberto Zucco — Paris

In 2013, the work travelled to Marseille, during the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.

L’histoire d’un petit déclenchement

Marseille — 2013

Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture

A theatre project connecting Greece and France through contemporary theatre, poetry, mythology and cultural memory.

The work brought Roberto Zucco together with references to Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Sophocles, C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis — theatre as a space for dialogue, memory and encounter.

Four performers on stage at night during L’histoire d’un petit déclenchement in Marseille — Marseille, 2013

L’histoire d’un petit déclenchement — film — L’histoire d’un petit déclenchement — Marseille, 2013

La Folle Joie

Athens

Musical theatre · Η Τρελή Χαρά · Direction & performance

A multilingual musical cabaret journey from Smyrna to the Paris of the Années Folles.

Elisabeth Theodorou singing in a beaded 1920s gown beside the piano in La Folle Joie

Original poster for Cabaret — La Folle Joie — Original poster

Une ville, mais quelle ville

Athens

Children's theatre · Μια πόλη, μα ποια πόλη · Direction

An anti-war fairytale in which a threatened city is defended by the seven arts.

The full cast of Une ville, mais quelle ville on stage with the illuminated green city background

The company of Une ville, mais quelle ville in white and green costumes leaning over a garland

The Happy Prince

Athens

Oscar Wilde · Children’s opera · Direction

Wilde’s fable given to music — a figure against the last light, waiting to give everything away.

The ensemble of The Happy Prince in theatrical costume — The Happy Prince

Cinema

Short-Form Cinema

L’Arrêstation

A short cinematic work exploring encounter, movement and the fragile boundary between reality and fiction. A suspended moment between departure and arrival, where the everyday becomes strange.

Le Métro

A poetic short film inspired by the Métro scene from Bernard-Marie Koltès’ Roberto Zucco. In an abandoned metro station, a woman encounters the child she once was — a liminal space where past, present and future collide.

Trailers

Une ville, mais quelle ville — trailer — Une ville, mais quelle ville

The Happy Prince — trailer — The Happy Prince — children’s opera

Press

Press Archive

Selected international coverage of stage work between Athens, Paris and Marseille.

Press article: Elisabeth Theodorou met en pièce Roberto Zucco — 01“Elisabeth Theodorou met en pièce Roberto Zucco” — Marseille

Press coverage of The Myth of the Olive Tree — 02The Myth of the Olive Tree — press

Press coverage of theatre for children — 03Theatre for children — press