Eva Manidaki
Architect - Set Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Born in Athens. She studied architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris (D’ESA) and theatre at Embros Drama School in Athens. She has worked as an architect and set designer since 1995 and was a lecturer at the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly from 2002 to 2017. Since 2007, she has been a founding member with Thanasis Demiris of FLUX Office, a multi-disciplinary practice for Architecture, Design and Theatre, participating with distinctions in exhibitions, performances and events in Greece and abroad, such as: Nominee for the Japan Foundation Award 2015 – Nekya, Noh Theater Group at Epidaurus Theatre (2015); the 14th Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2014): national participation in the Greek exhibition pavilion; Prague Quadrennial 2011: participation in the national Greek entry – gold medal in Theatre Architecture; Obalme Gallery, Piran – Slovenia (2010): nominee for Piranesi Award. As a scenographer, she has designed sets for more than one hundred and fifty theatre productions for the National Theatre of Greece, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Hellenic Festival and the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the Onassis Foundation.
Τhe play deals with death, the coexistence of two worlds, realism and poetry, the value of life. It is a setting in situ. The soil is the same used by archaeologists for works at the monumental complex in Asklepieion, Epidaurus. The orchestra in Epidaurus seems to bear an open wound, as a transforming navel. Death -a major dramaturgical element- appears at the Epidaurus setting from within the cypresses as the “undertakers” are digging at the beginning of the performance. The cypress springing from the depth of the open grave emphasises the duality of things, death and life. The space, the earthen setting at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus creates worlds / meeting points where we, the play and the audience come together, suggesting a new form of connection and communication where we jointly explore the significance of artistic collaboration.
Author: Euripides
Translation: Kostas Topouzis
Direction: Katerina Evangelatos
Set Design: Eva Manidaki
Costume Design: Vassiliki Syrma
Movement: Patricia Apergi
Music: Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design: Simos Sarketzis
Photos: Patroklos Skafidas, Stavros Habakis
Τhe play deals with death, the coexistence of two worlds, realism and poetry, the value of life. It is a setting in situ. The soil is the same used by archaeologists for works at the monumental complex in Asklepieion, Epidaurus. The orchestra in Epidaurus seems to bear an open wound, as a transforming navel. Death -a major dramaturgical element- appears at the Epidaurus setting from within the cypresses as the “undertakers” are digging at the beginning of the performance. The cypress springing from the depth of the open grave emphasises the duality of things, death and life. The space, the earthen setting at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus creates worlds / meeting points where we, the play and the audience come together, suggesting a new form of connection and communication where we jointly explore the significance of artistic collaboration.
Born in Athens. She studied architecture at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris (D’ESA) and theatre at Embros Drama School in Athens. She has worked as an architect and set designer since 1995 and was a lecturer at the School of Architecture of the University of Thessaly from 2002 to 2017. Since 2007, she has been a founding member with Thanasis Demiris of FLUX Office, a multi-disciplinary practice for Architecture, Design and Theatre, participating with distinctions in exhibitions, performances and events in Greece and abroad, such as: Nominee for the Japan Foundation Award 2015 – Nekya, Noh Theater Group at Epidaurus Theatre (2015); the 14th Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2014): national participation in the Greek exhibition pavilion; Prague Quadrennial 2011: participation in the national Greek entry – gold medal in Theatre Architecture; Obalme Gallery, Piran – Slovenia (2010): nominee for Piranesi Award. As a scenographer, she has designed sets for more than one hundred and fifty theatre productions for the National Theatre of Greece, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Hellenic Festival and the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the Onassis Foundation.
Author: Euripides
Translation: Kostas Topouzis
Direction: Katerina Evangelatos
Set Design: Eva Manidaki
Costume Design: Vassiliki Syrma
Movement: Patricia Apergi
Music: Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design: Simos Sarketzis
Photos: Patroklos Skafidas, Stavros Habakis
