This kind of writing tactics, capable of producing a text, is what he usually calls “Directing as Playwriting”, and as well as Every THEOREM Hiding BEHIND all these phenomena”.
Remarkable moments:
-Euripides: MEDEA (three versions) 1990, 1992, 1993: Athens, Argos, Patras, Amverse.
George Veltsos: CAMERA DEGLI SPOSI – a greek play 1994: Athens.
-ULYSSES – KAFKA: THE TRANSFORMATIONS – an installation, 1996: Ancient theatre of Argos.
-Sophocles: ELECTRA 1998: Epidaurus, Thessalonica, Dion, Fillipae.
-Aeschylus: AGAMEMNON 2000: Athens, Caracas, Zurich, Tbilisi (Georgia).
-H. Muller MEDEAMATERIAL (Two versions) 1992, Athens, BITEF – Belgrade.
-SACRED SONGS (a short opera) 2000: Athens: the Megaron.
-ROMANTISM, A performance by Michael Marmarinos- “DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING” 1997: Athens.
-H. Muller ZEMENT (international workshop) 2001: Berlin.
-NATIONAL HYMN, A performance by Michael Marmrinos- “DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING” (Three versions internationally: Greece 2002: Corfu, Athens, Salonica, Zurich. Italy 2003: Florence. Georgia 2003 (Tbilisi).
-W. Shakespeare ROMEO + JULIET – THE THIRD MEMORY 2003, 2004: Florence, Athens, Tbilisi.
-«2004» - Instructions Mannual – A performance by Michael Marmarinos Athens 2005.
-“Who is Mr. Kelerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?” [A visit to Kafka’s Castle] – A performance by Michael Marmarinos, Athens 2007.
-Dimitris Dimitriadis: “Dying as a Country” Athens Festival 2007, 2008, Kunstenfestibaldesarts in Brussels, Wiener Festwochen 2008,International Theater Festival in Worsow: WARSZAWA CENTRALNA 2008 “Stigmata of the flesh”, October 2008, THEATRE A L'ODEON. - festival D'Automne, Paris, November 2009.
-Michael Marmarinos, Akillas Karazisis: ”Stalin, A discussion on (Greek) Theater”, National Greek Theater, April 2008, 7th “Politik im Freien Theater” Festival (ECHT!), awarded with the guest performer prize by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education.
-”LIVES OF THE SAINTS”, a performance by Michael Marmarinos- “DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING”, Athens 2009.
-“Agora - Ein ChorStasimon”: VOLKSBÜHNE DRAUSSEN AM ROSA-LUXEMBURG-PLATZ , a performance by Michael Marmarinos, Berlin 2009.
He is now preparing a performance that will be presented in Teatr WSPOLCZESNY
Wroclaw on the 8th of December 2009.
And the Workshop “ELEVATOR: Directing as Playwriting, The Methods of creating instant dramaturgy” in July 2009, invited by La MaMa International Symposium for Directors in Umbria, Italy.
International Collaborations:
-with Albrecht Hirche: ALTHUSSER-ROCK 1996, Athens, Germany, France, Swirzerland.
-With Heiner Goebbels: SCHLIEMANN SCAFFOLDING 1997, Athens.
-With Kate Dolidze and the GIFT FESTIVAL in Tbilisi: MEDEAMATERIAL, NATIONAL HYMN.
-With Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel (RIMINI PROTOKOLL –Germany):
HOT SPOTS – “I was there”. Athens, Hamburg 2004.
-With Seoul Arts Center: “AGAMEMNON” of Aeschylus. Seoul, spring 2005.
-With VeenFabriek and Paul Koek: "SUPPLIANTS" of Euripides. Holland, Epidaurus, 2006
The plays that have been staged worked as exercise or internal “gymnastics” on the following matters:
-H. PINTER: «The lover – Night»
-J. ARDEN «Sgt. Mussgrave's dance», «Live like pigs»
-J. JEUNET «Climax (Haute Surveillance)»
-A.STRINDBERG: «Strindberg – Strindberg (the first premonition)»
-B.BRECHT: «BRECHTMACHINE (THE WEDDING)»
-G. BAKOLAS «Clean – up days» etc.