Loukia Minetou
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Set & costume designer and an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. As a designer, she is practicing in both London and Athens. Loukia has been collaborating with numerous companies and venues in London and Athens including the Young Vic Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Barbican Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, the Welsh Millennium Centre and the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. Loukia was born in Cephalonia, Hellas. She studied scenography at Motley Theatre Design Course under Margaret Harris and completed her MA on Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths College, London. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, Scotland, investigating spatial design for people living with dementia.
A performance about god Dionysus who returns to his native land to shake established social structures. Dionysus emerges from the ground along with the setting, leaving the feeling that what was buried for years can carry a very contemporary force. The women of the chorus hide, their figures are projected like an ancient shadow theatre on the heavy transparent curtain. In a period when producing a play in Greece involved financial, practical and social difficulties, Dionysus, the Arch–e (αρχή / origin) of theatre, by penetrating the shell of the play has infused our team with solidarity and the power to fight, offering inexhaustible mental strength to all of us to be able to remain servants of the theatre magic. These magical Dionysian moments of reunion confirm that the beauty and power of theatre lies in teamwork and collaboration and that the most resounding motivation for the praxis of creation is passion and the empirical experience of human nature.
Author: Euripides
Translation: Yorgos Cheimonas
Direction: Nikaiti Kontouri
Dramaturgy: Manos Lamprakis
Set & Costume Design: Loukia Minetou
Music: Thrax Punks
Lighting Design: Nikos Sotiropoulos
Choreography: Androniki Marathaki
Photos: Loukia Minetou, Nikaiti Kountouri’s archive
A performance about god Dionysus who returns to his native land to shake established social structures. Dionysus emerges from the ground along with the setting, leaving the feeling that what was buried for years can carry a very contemporary force. The women of the chorus hide, their figures are projected like an ancient shadow theatre on the heavy transparent curtain. In a period when producing a play in Greece involved financial, practical and social difficulties, Dionysus, the Arch–e (αρχή / origin) of theatre, by penetrating the shell of the play has infused our team with solidarity and the power to fight, offering inexhaustible mental strength to all of us to be able to remain servants of the theatre magic. These magical Dionysian moments of reunion confirm that the beauty and power of theatre lies in teamwork and collaboration and that the most resounding motivation for the praxis of creation is passion and the empirical experience of human nature.
Set & costume designer and an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. As a designer, she is practicing in both London and Athens. Loukia has been collaborating with numerous companies and venues in London and Athens including the Young Vic Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, the Barbican Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, the Welsh Millennium Centre and the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. Loukia was born in Cephalonia, Hellas. She studied scenography at Motley Theatre Design Course under Margaret Harris and completed her MA on Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths College, London. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, Scotland, investigating spatial design for people living with dementia.
Author: Euripides
Translation: Yorgos Cheimonas
Direction: Nikaiti Kontouri
Dramaturgy: Manos Lamprakis
Set & Costume Design: Loukia Minetou
Music: Thrax Punks
Lighting Design: Nikos Sotiropoulos
Choreography: Androniki Marathaki
Photos: Loukia Minetou, Nikaiti Kountouri’s archive
