Andromache

Andromache is a 2025 staging of Euripides’ tragedy at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, in the Argolid, given on 8 and 9 August 2025. It was directed by Maria Protopappa in a production by the Tehnihoros / Art Theatre Karolos Koun and presented within the Athens Epidaurus Festival. The staging fell in the festival’s seventieth-anniversary season, whose drama and music ran across the summer to a close on 23 August.

The tragedy follows Andromache, widow of the Trojan Hector, taken as a hostage into a hostile household after the fall of Troy. In an inversion of the heroic register of the Iliad, Euripides exposes the arrogance of the victorious Greeks and the illusion of their cultural superiority. The performance was given at nine in the evening on the fourth-century BC stones of Epidaurus. The theatre’s acoustic is renowned for carrying an unamplified voice from the orchestra to the highest tier.