Thaleia Melissa
Set Designer
60 designers
57 projects
A graduate of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. She is based in Athens. As an architect, she has participated in numerous exhibitions in Athens and Thessaloniki and in the 14th Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia as a collaborator of FLUX Office architectural practice. In theatre, she has collaborated as a set designer in productions of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, National Theatre, Onassis Stegi et.al. Some of her collaborations include Carnage (Little Theatre of Epidaurus 2021, dir. G. Skevas), The Kodjabashi of Kastropirgos (National Theatre of Greece 2021, dir. D. Tarlow), Hamlet (Amphitheatre 2019, dir. K. Evangelatos), War Lessons III – Athenean Dramas (National Theatre of Greece 2020, dir. G. Tsouris), Archimedes’ Principle (Skrow Theatre 2019, dir. V. Mavrogeorgiou), The Convict (Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani 2019, dir. V. Mavrogeorgiou), Ok, that’s you… (Onassis Stegi 2018, chor. Ch. Xirafakis & A. Xhuma).
In an encounter between the ancient and the contemporary, the stage design was intended to follow the theatre’s morphology and transform it into a contemporary digital environment. A tower and columns formed with LED screens as opposed to the ancient theatre’s columns, a new contemporary altar in contrast to the existing one, cameras surveying the entire space and their cables transferring digital data spanning the koilon (theatron). A range of gestures follow the theatre’s architecture elements and are expressed in stark contrast: the ancient versus the contemporary, the analog versus the digital, earth and stones versus the lustrous black covers of the props. The first encounter with the ancient theatre’s space is a rare, critical moment, a profoundly enlightening experience during which new awareness emerges, certainties are eliminated and novel uncertainties are born.
Direction – Video: Giorgos Skevas
Set Design: Thalia Melissa
Costume Design: Evelina Darzenta
Music – Sound Design: Simi Tsilali
Lighting Design: Charis Dallas
Sound Design: Kostas Michopoulos
Photos: Thalia Melissa, Patroklos Skafidas
In an encounter between the ancient and the contemporary, the stage design was intended to follow the theatre’s morphology and transform it into a contemporary digital environment. A tower and columns formed with LED screens as opposed to the ancient theatre’s columns, a new contemporary altar in contrast to the existing one, cameras surveying the entire space and their cables transferring digital data spanning the koilon (theatron). A range of gestures follow the theatre’s architecture elements and are expressed in stark contrast: the ancient versus the contemporary, the analog versus the digital, earth and stones versus the lustrous black covers of the props. The first encounter with the ancient theatre’s space is a rare, critical moment, a profoundly enlightening experience during which new awareness emerges, certainties are eliminated and novel uncertainties are born.
A graduate of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly. She is based in Athens. As an architect, she has participated in numerous exhibitions in Athens and Thessaloniki and in the 14th Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia as a collaborator of FLUX Office architectural practice. In theatre, she has collaborated as a set designer in productions of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, National Theatre, Onassis Stegi et.al. Some of her collaborations include Carnage (Little Theatre of Epidaurus 2021, dir. G. Skevas), The Kodjabashi of Kastropirgos (National Theatre of Greece 2021, dir. D. Tarlow), Hamlet (Amphitheatre 2019, dir. K. Evangelatos), War Lessons III – Athenean Dramas (National Theatre of Greece 2020, dir. G. Tsouris), Archimedes’ Principle (Skrow Theatre 2019, dir. V. Mavrogeorgiou), The Convict (Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani 2019, dir. V. Mavrogeorgiou), Ok, that’s you… (Onassis Stegi 2018, chor. Ch. Xirafakis & A. Xhuma).
Direction – Video: Giorgos Skevas
Set Design: Thalia Melissa
Costume Design: Evelina Darzenta
Music – Sound Design: Simi Tsilali
Lighting Design: Charis Dallas
Sound Design: Kostas Michopoulos
Photos: Thalia Melissa, Patroklos Skafidas
