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Athanasia
Manos Hadjidakis through the performances of four young, talented musicians and composers from the ten-member ensemble "Odoiporoi". Athina Routsi (vocals), Alkistis Raftopoulou (piano), Giorgos Markaris (guitar, vocals) and Fotis Mylonas (wind instruments, mandolin), present a musical performance that will take us to a journey of the unique sound of the soul of Manos Hadjidakis, update as never before, with a collection that expresses the eternal need of people for love, coexistence, hope. View Gallery
Fa(K)eBook Stories
This is a very original show, where music and modern dance narrate the parallel lives of two young people, who met on the internet, in a contemporary city such as Athens. The protagonists (2 dancers), a man and a woman who would never match in real life, become "friends" in Facebook, presenting a fake image of themselves. So basically they never know each other... View Gallery
A Hostage
In the Theatre Wagon, the Central Scene of Train-Theater, the play "A Hostage" by Brendan Mehan is presented, one of the most important Irish authors of the previous century, with music written by Mikis Theodorakis. This is a powerful theatrical script, written in 1958, with solid structure and interesting characters, very timely, and a great production for the Train, which involves a ten (10) actor cast. View Gallery
Open-air bar
This summer an open-air bar with "tables outside" at the cool dock of the station at Rouf waits for you. View Gallery
The Twelve Coupes
An avant-garde project entitled The Twelve Coupes is presented on the New Wagon, the brand new wagon which has now been added to the Train at Rouf Railway-Theatre.
Twelve young artists (directors, musicians, video and plastic artists, choreographers and more) face the challenge of setting up their own “private” show for a small group of spectators, transforming the twelve coup¾s of the wagon into a theatrical stage. View Gallery
Around the World in 30 songs
With the band "The Eden's Garden" and the amazing voice of Anastasia, we travel to ports of the western Mediterranean, with the ocean liner from Piraeus. We cross the Atlantic, and from Buenos Aires we take the train from one country to another until we reach New York. On the way back we stop in the British Isles and Europe, entering the Orient Express to get to Istanbul. On our way back to Athens we feel full of sounds, images and emotions. View Gallery
Indian Summer
Anatoli Athanasiadou as Laura and Marina Polimeri as Stefie, will be serving drinks and hot coffees to the hurrying travelers at the Railway Station, as well as to the spectators of the Railway-Theatre Wagon Bar.
Assuming 8 different roles, they will be also sharing with their audience all their fears and failures, their hopes and unfulfilled dreams, their bad choices and obsessions, finally looking for a way out of their misery, a sniff of fresh air, a bright day, one last little summer in their dead-end lives. View Gallery
Sunday Noons at Orient Express (4th season)
Keeping the tradition of the fruitful literature gatherings we have been hosting three years now, this year distinguished artists and intellectuals will be meeting in couples and discussing with the “passengers” of Orient Express the necessity of making Art an integral part of our lives. View Gallery
VERMOUTH SONGS
Inspired by the 60s atmosphere, Vermouth Songs is the new musical performance presented by Tatiana Ligari and her company on the Orient Express Music Wagon. The 60s was a decade full of boldness, creativity and sensitivity and, no doubt, the decade of the Young. It was a time of struggle, vision and slogans, but also a time of an almost transcendent euphoria; the euphoria of crazy party people, politically active youths, with vermouth –the must-drink of the decade– running in the their veins. View Gallery
Sunday noons at Orient Express (3rd season)
Just finished the third cycle of literary meetings with important and beloved Greek authors as well as individuals from the fields of art, literature and politics for the 2009-2010 season. We hosted Michalis Ganas, Pavlos Matesis, Maro Douka, Menis Koumantareas and Ilias Mamalakis. View Gallery
Love succession
A music show with songs from the greek artistic field, the field of jazz, musicals with texts from international poetry and theater. One piano, two voices. Three women experience the stages of love from the first spark and absolute identification to untold suffering. And then all over again. View Gallery
Your fire lit
Nikoletta Anastasiou along with a four member band take the audience of the Music Wagon Orient Express on a journey all over the world, starting with gypsy melodies from central Europe and the "discreet" participation of the audience. View Gallery
The lady vanishes
The “The Lady Vanishes” (1938), is one of the most beautiful films of Alfred Hitchcock along with the “39 steps”, the state of the art, of the so called English period of his career. The “The Lady Vanishes” relies as a plot in what Hitchcock calls a “MacGaffin”: “It is a gimmick as we call it. MacGaffin, in the mentioned picture is a spy message, which is delivered into a coded music line to Mrs. Froy, and old governess, who leaves by train from one country of the Balkans with the destination of London, but during this trip, she disappears. View Gallery
The Fuming Beauty
"Three years ago I could not even imagine leaving my computer and my office and run down to the rehearsals with a rather heterogeneous, but nevertheless, marvelous company of actors, directors, musicians, composers, chorographers who were trying to give flesh and bone to my novel, to make my "angry" so "beautiful" as to talk into your hearts." Lena Divani View Gallery
Taste of Cherries
Young, beautiful, apartment owner, divorced not of her culpability, seeks for an acquaintance with a good looking, thin, blond gentleman ... View Gallery
The Seventh Station - Seduction of a doll
The audience-passengers will cross seven stations while on the last train to leave a country in which the governor has abolished all "useless" and counterproductive professions, which waste active citizens' time and won't allow them to engage in "constructive" activities, so that the country's five year economic growth programme is successful. Three artists, wanted by the law, board this train and during an exciting journey, present the story of Amorfoula, a girl without a shape. View Gallery
The rails behind me
The centre character, Thales, has a big problem. Ever since he was born, he has passed unnoticed. Nobody paid attention to him, nobody looked after him, he was neglected as if he didn't exist. As he characteristically recounts, he's always been average at everything, not good, not bad. Just average. View Gallery
HERE
In “HERE” the author jumps into the deep waters of modern people's sexual relationships with humor and sensitivity and fishes out the funny insecurities and confrontations that come with the cohabitation of a couple that wants to set order to the little apartment they rented from its peculiar landlady. It all happens in the here and now without any reference to the past! View Gallery
Helen's Necklace
Helen, a woman from the West, who takes part in a convention in a warm and chaotic city of the Middle East, loses a small necklace with white plastic pearls. In a crazy search, she looks for this humble and fragile object in the busy and mazy streets of the city. Nabil, a taxi driver, will be her guide and protector in this frantic ride.
A very topical theater play, a "pearl" of humanity, full of excitement and optimism. View Gallery
The Abduction of United Europe
This is a "cheerful epic" in poetic verse form, the plot of which is based on the famous ancient greek myth of the abduction of Europa by Zeus and it's a comic- satirical transfer to a music-theatrical play with modern aesthetic and directive view. The plot is preserved in the play (consensual union of Europa and Zeus), while, at the same time, there are references to contemporary sociopolitical issues and the new countries of the modern european enlargement are artistically shown, the "further consensual" european prospects, the mutual energy policies, the correlations of the identity of nations within the context of globalization, common ecological concerns etc. View Gallery
Deliciosa
Joined by a young and talented cast, author, director and chef ‘cook up’ Delicioza, a Cinderella for the 21st century whose beloved and timeless heroine triumphantly sautés and pot roasts her way into our hearts and into our century, ‘steaking’ her claim to happiness with all the intelligence, sensitivity and culinary nous at her disposal! View Gallery
Breaking the silence
It is an autobiographical play, which takes place during the early years of the post-revolutionary Russia (1920-1924), in an imperial train wagon serving as a mobile home for a Russian aristocrat whose employment as a Telephone Inspector of the Northern Railroads is merely a cover-up for the project of his life : the invention of the talking pictures. View Gallery
The Seventh Station - Pirate Belafousk's secret (season 2)
The audience-passengers will cross seven stations while on the last train to leave the country, before it irrevocably closes its borders. In the country they leave behind, all useless, unnecessary, fussy and counterproductive professions, which waste active citizens' time and won't allow them to engage in serious, productive and constructive activities, have been abolished so that its five year economic growth programme is successful! View Gallery
The Seventh Station - Pirate Belafousk's secret
The audience-passengers will cross seven stations while on the last train to leave the country, before it irrevocably closes its borders. In the country they leave behind, all useless, unnecessary, fussy and counterproductive professions, which waste active citizens' time and won't allow them to engage in serious, productive and constructive activities, have been abolished so that its five year economic growth programme is successful! View Gallery
Eleni and Suzana Vougioukli - Witches on the Rouf
Eleni and Suzana Vougioukli, two sisters from Xanthi, join forces with Areti Miggou on percussion to bewitch you with spells, incantations and songs in twenty different languages and dialects. The repertoire of the two singer/performers, who sing both a capella and accompanied, encompasses rembetika, folk music from Greece and Magna Grecia, Portuguese fado, American blues, and songs from the Spanish, French, Italian, Rumanian, Turkish, Arabic, Romany, Sephardic, Pomak, Bulgarian, Serbian and Armenian traditions. View Gallery
Trees, bloom or not it's no matter to me
This small and cozy company can enjoy in this first part, a unique program of poetry composed into music from thirteen of the most important Greek composers in an original composition, can also dine during the intermission with Oriental tastes and sing along in this second part, beloved and well known songs of Hatzidakis, Theodorakis, Loizos, Mikroutsikos, Xarhakos etc. View Gallery
Sunday noons at Orient Express - Second Cycle
For the season 2008-2009, the second cycle of literary meetings with important and beloved Greek authors as well as individuals from the fields of art, literature and politics is completed.
In the second cycle Petros Markaris, Soti Triantafyllou, Konstantinos Tzoumas and Zirana Zateli were hosted.
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Every Tuesday at 9:30
With Musica Mista. Manos Hatzidakis, J. S. Bach and Astor Piazzolla meet Sardinia's and Southern Italy's tradition and flert with the passionate music of Latin America, Portugal and the parisian culture. A special music suggestion with intense theatrical elements with Euaggelia Tsiara (vocals), Andreas Stergiou (guitar & vocals) and Stelios Katsatsidis (accordion & bayan). View Gallery
Love's no Express Train
A romantic tale, it tells the story of a man and a woman, Filyros and Melirroi, who meet by chance on a railway platform and fall madly in love. We experience the passions, jealousies, partings and elation only true love can bring through a selection of much-loved Greek songs carefully chosen to match the imagery and emotions of the poetic, humorous, surreal atmosphere of a classic love story. View Gallery
Ladies sing and... blues
The two charming performers- singers, Eleni and Suzanna Vouyoukli- both of whom were impressive last year in "Μάγισσες στο Ρουφ" ("Witches at Rouf")- carry the precious cargo of tradition with a contemporary expression and take us on a journey, in an atmosphere of authentic mystery, through different times, languages and cultures, combining West and East, old and new in a magical way. They sing a capella or accompanied by a piano, guitar and percussion, traditional greek, rebetiko, greek of Southern Italy, hispanic, roumanian, bulgarian, serbian, turkish, fados, irish and american blues. View Gallery
Jazzmin Quartet - Jazz in the Movies
Three musicians and a young, powerful jazz voice perform music and songs from the Broadway and Hollywood of yesteryear and today. Playing in the magical atmosphere of the Music Wagon, the Jazzmin Quartet imbue songs by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and Henry Mancini—composers all who made their name in the theatre or cinema before establishing themselves in the jazz pantheon—with an invigorating freshness. View Gallery
Epsilon - - Jazz on the Orient Express
The new Epsilon line-up take us on a journey through the world of jazz for a second season. Four instrumentalists and a sensual female voice weave a musical tapestry out of much-loved works by such classic jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and be-boppers like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. View Gallery
Apodrasi - Colours of Jazz
Six contemporary musicians converse in a jazz idiom imbued with the impressionistic hues of the Mediterranean and combining the classical tradition with ‘minimal’ rhythmic patterns. The group is unique in terms both of its composition and its musical choices, and has recorded widely in a wide range of repertoire. View Gallery
All Aboard
A journey from Paris to Constantinople, with musical stops in all the European cities where the legendary Orient Express used to pull in, during the charming era of the Belle Époque and the years between the two World Wars. (Paris, Berlin, Venice, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia, Constantinople. View Gallery
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