AEF2025: Dramodé

The Athens Epidaurus Festival celebrates its 70th edition in 2025, with 95 days of artistic brilliance featuring over 3,000 artists from 14 countries. From iconic venues in Athens like the Herodeion, Pireos 260, and the revived City of Athens Lycabettus Theatre, to the grand finale in Epidaurus, the festival brings the world’s top performances to Greece’s stages.

This year’s programme includes world premieres, new commissions, and exciting artistic strands such as Contemporary Ancients, which reimagines Greek tragedy, and Fierce Women in Performance, exploring gender and power. The GRAPE – Greek Agora of Performance platform highlights emerging Greek talent, while the Subset Festival brings experimental sounds to the stage. Cycles Roots revisits folk traditions with a fresh twist.

Check out our curated picks from this year's programme here.

What happens when fashion hits the stage with a flair for the dramatic? Dramodé is a bold new “stage happening” where theatre, dance, opera and haute couture collide — and the result is anything but ordinary.

Presented by the Hellenic Fashion Designers Association, this one-of-a-kind performance turns the catwalk into a living archive of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival’s 70-year legacy. Greek designers reinterpret iconic roles, creating bespoke pieces that become part of the storytelling itself.

It’s a theatrical défilé on the edge of burlesque, where models, actors, dancers and opera singers share the spotlight. Specially designed costumes take centre stage, accompanied by dramatic monologues, music, lighting and set design — in a show that feels like a love letter to both fashion and performance.

Playful, extravagant and deeply rooted in Greek creativity, Dramodé is a full-blown multimedia experience. If you’ve ever wanted to see a runway meet the repertory, this is the one to catch.