AEF2026: Nine Water Lilies from the Dead Shore

Each summer, the Athens Epidaurus Festival returns to the enchanting Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, an idyllic venue where ancient history and contemporary artistic expression meet in rare harmony. Smaller and more intimate than its monumental counterpart, the theatre offers audiences a uniquely immersive experience, where music, theatre, and storytelling unfold against the rhythms of the natural landscape.

For decades, the Little Theatre has served as a vital space for experimentation and poetic dialogue within the Festival’s programme, welcoming works that bridge mythology, memory, music, and modern Greek creation.

Following this year’s Festival theme of memory, myth, and transformation, Nine Water Lilies from the Dead Shore unfolds as a hauntingly lyrical stage composition inspired by the fragile boundary between the living and the unseen. Blending music, poetic language, and evocative visual imagery, the production invites audiences into a dreamlike landscape where remembrance and loss drift together like reflections upon water.