The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and reappraise what it means today not only to have a body, but to fully be a body.

Terzopoulos created a very specific attitude towards life and death, and it is this broad perspective on energy and consciousness that makes his work so appealing both to a general public and to students of arts, theatre and drama.

Freddy Decreus’ study charts the career of Greece's most acclaimed theatre director and provides a spiritual and philosophic answer in times where former Western metanarratives have failed.

Freddy Decreus is a Prof. Em at Ghent University, Belgium, by training a classical philologist. Decreus started to work at Ghent University in 1981, where he was responsible for courses in Latin Literature, Literary Theory, Mythology, Comparative Literature and Theatre History (esp. Ritual Theatre). Recent publications dealt with Post-colonial Perspectives on the Tragic (2004), The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre. Cultural Heritage, Western Models, Post-colonial Hybridity (2005), Ritual Theatre (2009), Mythology (2009), The Reception of Classics (2010). His main interest today is the Italian theatre of the Societas Rafaello Sanzio and the ritual theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos (2016, Agra Publications, Athens).