...by the mall of Aktaiou street, at Theseum, under Acropolis’s shadow, at a place of elevated vibration, history, remembrance and civilization...
...where theatre touches your "inner" life
In the centre of Athens, near the ancient temple of Theseum, beneath Acropolis, is located Esotheatro: a Theatre and an Acting Studio. ‘Eso’ means inner and ‘theatro’ is the primal Greek word for theatre. So, Esotheatro is the theatre of the inner reality. Esotheatro is interested not for a ‘photographic’ capturing of reality, but seeks the inner truth; the truth found in diachronic plays like those of ancient Greek Drama or Shakespeare’s, the truth that the theoreticians of  fantastic or transcendental realism look for.

THEATRE
Having the above in mind, artists of Esotheatro have produced classical but also contemporary repertoire’s plays like:
• Sand of the Road by Kenneth Goodman
• Nächtliches Gespräch mit einem verachteten Menschen by Friedrich Durrenmatt
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Tunnel by Leo Tsipi
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Love+Death a trilogy by monologues of Human Voice by Jean Cocteau, Salome by Oscar Wilde and                        Media by Heiner Muller
To see photoes and other information regarding the above plays, just click on the desired title

• For the upcoming season, our theatrical stage will host Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ACTING STUDIO
At the studio, actors, theoreticians and other artists of the theatre teach acting, improvisation, theatrical motion, mime corporel, dramatology, history of theatre etc. and provide a full actor training. Esotheatro is inspired by the great masters of theatre K. Stanislavksi, Y. Vakhtangov and M. Chekhov but is also interested in some of the contemporary theatrical art movements like S. Mesiner’s which declares: “Acting is not about lying; acting means that I am saying the inner truth’’. The studies include ‘Ancient Drama Acting’ -Esotheatro gives much emphasis on that- and also an original unconventional course of ‘holistic acting’ which is a dynamic type of acting which incorporates basic training in observation, concentration, voice, physical skills and emotion memory as analyzed by Stanislavski but at the same time includes teachings of Zen and Antonin Artaud.
AN OPEN STAGE TO THE WORLD
Esotheatro believes in collaborations and exchange of ideas about theatre and studies of theatre, so it searches for Culture Program Partners and is registered in potential project partners 2010 of European Union [about it]