THEATRE
ONASSIS STEGI / ATHENS
Bérénice
Romeo Castellucci directs Isabelle Huppert and 14 men in a play about the madness, the truth, and the lie of loving and being loved at Onassis Stegi, from March 26 to March 30, 2025.
© Alex Majoli
The great Italian director Romeo Castellucci takes on one of the most groundbreaking texts of Western literature. Racine’s "Bérénice" is transformed by Isabelle Huppert as we have never seen her before, surrounded by speechless male performers and bursting with the inner mourning of her lost love, which resonates inside her and around us.
“Love is the Theater of Cruelty,” says Castellucci through this production, where a wounded heroine is stripped of her royalty, and 14 men make decisions on her behalf. "Bérénice" is presented as the immobile nexus of chaos, as the eye of the storm that sweeps us all away.
"Bérénice" is a manifesto of love and loss, straddling the border between reality and the dream, between tenderness and madness. A stunning theatrical universe set upon the stage by Castellucci, with brilliant costumes crafted by acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, accompanied by an original score by Scott Gibbons, who expertly captures the solitude and abandonment in his composition.
The performance includes nudity.
The performance is in French with Greek and English surtitles.
