Europa’s pledge / Le Serment d’Europe

World Premiere

Lebanese-Canadian author, director, and actor Wajdi Mouawad, he returns to the Festival this year as a newcomer to Epidaurus with a new work inspired by the heroines of Ancient Drama.



At the age of eight, a young girl witnesses, helplessly, the massacre of a village population. The crime was committed by her own people, and, without knowing it, without understanding, she was complicit.

Seventy-five years later, an investigation reopens the wounds of the past. Witnesses are sought, silences challenged. Now, she must speak. But how does one face what has been buried? How can one confront what has never been named?

Europa’s Pledge delves into the memory of a crime, the burden of silence, and the way trauma is passed down through generations. With this new play, created in Epidaurus, Wajdi Mouawad continues his exploration of inherited violence and theatre as a space for reckoning and repair.

Performance in French with Greek and English surtitles

The performance contains descriptions of violence that may be disturbing and are deemed inappropriate for children under the age of 16.