Epidaure (Epidaurus) * Ἐπίδαυρος

When I was in Athens, I booked a ticket to see a play at night in the theater of Epidavros (between 14.000 and 15.000 seats).   It was an Aristophanes' play that I didn't know. Even if I didn't understand a word because it was all in greek (I am not good enough in that language to understand a play), the comic of the stage and of the characters helped me and I laughed. Some people around me explained some things to lead me laughing with them.

The scenery was made of big paintings of pinus.

The costums (with the masks) were roughly modeled on antic ones. Some actors were wearing t-shirts with a big pinus on it.

So... easy to understand that

the pinus

was

the

center

of

the play.

But well, the name of the play is "Eκκλησιαζουδες" = The Assembly of women".

It's a critic of the new administration of Athens at the time of Aristophanes. Women change the rules of the City while men are still sleeping, to save the world...

Aristophane :
Ecclesiazusae