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Elena Akrita’s post about Lina Mendoni and Dimitris Lignadis on social media
In a post on her personal Facebook profile, the Elena Akrita states that according to press reports the Lina mendoni demanded his resignation Dimitris Lignadis from the position of artistic director at the National Theater.
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“THE Lina mendoni demanded the resignation of the artistic director of the National Theater Dimitris Lignadis, according to reliable journalistic sources. Please do not speculate on the reasons for the resignation. Nothing is officially known yet. Comments with offensive content will be removed “, characteristically wrote the Elena Akrita.
The official announcement of the Press Office of the Ministry of Culture and Sports notes: “The decisions of the Minister of Culture and Sports are made known exclusively through press releases from the Ministry of Culture and Sports and not from private profiles on social networks. “Any other ‘reliable information’ is misleading and for vague purposes.”
Who is Dimitris Lignadis?
THE Dimitris Lignadis He is an excellent graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and the School of Drama of the National Theater (1985). He taught for several years in the Theater Department of the University of the Peloponnese in Nafplio and in theater schools (Drama School of the National Theater, Iasmos, Theater of Changes, etc.). He was director of the New Stage of the National Theater, as well as deputy director of the School of Drama of the National Theater, while in the period 2014-15 he was artistic director of the Theater “Panteón”..
For several years he was in charge of the theater group in the schools of Arsakeia and at the Psychiko College.. From 2018 to the present, it has developed an original educational-artistic project, the “War Lessons”, based on the work of Thucydides, with the aim of consolidating and applying the so-called “experiential teaching of History”.
At the National Theater, for a decade, he played key roles in its winter and summer productions, with leading directors and actors. (Minotis, Solomos, Evangelatos, Vogiatzis, Dassen, Valakou, Chatziargyri, Synodinou, Kourkoulos etc.) Later he collaborated with the free theater (Art Theater, Theater of the South, George Kimoulis Theater, etc.).
Since 2001 he has directed both the National Theater and the Free Theater.. His indicative works at the National Theater are: “Oresteia”, “Biomagia”, “Doctor Fausto” and “Frogs” by Aristophanes (Epidaurus 2008), “Exodus” and “Eros Woman” (Little Epidaurus 2005-2006), as well as other productions, including “The collector”, “Stones in his pockets”, “Oscar” (3 theater awards).
For the Athens Festival he has directed the works: “13 objects”, “Phaedra”, “Miss Julia”. He has also directed or starred in the plays “Amadeus”, “The Man in the Rain”, “The Epic of Digenis”, “The End of the Game”, “Bacches”, “The Peloponnesian War”, “Billy Elliot”, ” Richard C ‘”,” Antigone “,” Peer Gud “. He has also worked on radio and television. Awarded the State Critics Association Award for his performance of the “Symposium 1-Peri Eros”, based on the text of Plato and the Greek poets (2010, Thission Theater by Michael Marmarinou).
