Theatre
Nicosia, Amyth Hotel, 7pm. Alpha Square stages Marguerite Yourcenar’s ‘Phaedo or Vertigo’, directed by Andreas Araouzos. The text comes from her collection ‘Fires’, in which Yourcenar lends her voice to historical and mythical figures, reimagining their thoughts and inner lives. Cast: Andreas Araouzos (Phaedo) and Stavros Dimopoulos (Cebes, Alcibiades, the young Phaedo). Tickets: Ticketmaster.
Nicosia, Ktirion 53, 8pm. Ktirion 53 presents the Cyprus premiere of ‘All of It’ by British playwright Alistair McDowall, directed by Maria Ioli Karolidou. The monologue, performed by Antonia Charalambous, follows an unnamed woman from birth to final parting. Further performances: October 7, 12, 14, 19 and 21, 8pm. Information: 70001384. Tickets: more.com. Suitable for over-16s.
Limassol, Pattichion Municipal Theatre, 8.30pm. Eleni Rantou returns to Cyprus with ‘The Party of My Life’, now in its fifth year. Rantou looks back on fifty years of personal and collective trauma against the backdrop of modern Greece, searching for the reasons life is worth living. The show is inspired by ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, but is not an adaptation of it. Further performances: October 6, 8.30pm, and October 7, 7pm. Tickets: Ticketmaster.
Nicosia, Dentro Theatre, 8.30pm. Florian Zeller’s award-winning ‘The Father’ returns to Dentro Theatre, directed by Giannis Leontaris with Stavros Louras in the lead role. Cast: Stavros Louras, Alexandros Parisis, Vasiliki Kypraiou, Katerina Loura, Onisiforos Onisiforou and Kristi Charalambous. Performances: October 5, 6, 12, 19, 20, 26 and 27. Running time: 90 minutes. Tickets: Sold Out Tickets, 99520835, and Stephanis stores.
Screening
Nicosia, Pantheon, 8.30pm. The Friends of Cinema Society screens Manuel Gómez Pereira’s comedy ‘Franco’s Dinner’. Two weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Franco orders a lavish dinner for 60 people at the Palace Hotel within a few hours. But the hotel has been turned into a field hospital, the best cooks, all of them left-wingers, are in prison, and the market is short of even the most basic goods. In Spanish with Greek subtitles.
Lecture
University of Cyprus (Pedagogical Academy, Kallipoleos Avenue), 7.30pm. ‘Second time lucky: the new excavations at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Tamassos-Frangissa, results and prospects’. The university’s Archaeological Research Unit hosts a hybrid lecture, on Zoom and in person, on a major excavation. The speaker is Dr Matthias Recke of the University of Frankfurt. Registration is required to join on Zoom.
Festival
Protaras, Agia Triada beach, October 1 to 6. The Cyprus Rocks Festival returns to Protaras in the first week of October with tribute acts from the UK and Europe. The programme covers the music of AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, Queen, Def Leppard, Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith, The Who, Status Quo and other rock names. cyprusrocks.co.uk. Tickets: TicketBox Cyprus.
Music
Paphos, Markideio Theatre, 8.30pm. Kostas Hatzis and Daniela in concert. Tickets: ticketmaster.cy and ACS Courier. Next: October 6, Larnaca Municipal Theatre G. Lykourgos.
Exhibitions
Nicosia
Old Town. The video art exhibition ‘Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear’ runs through the streets of old Nicosia, as a parallel event to ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’ at the PSI Foundation in Limassol. Until November 2. Information: PSI Foundation.
Diachroniki (22680145). Diachroniki marks 36 years with the exhibition ‘Cyprus 1990 – 2026 through our Artists Eyes’. Until October 21.
Art Seen (22006624). ‘The Future of the Past’ by Andreas Kallis. Until November 6. art-seen.org
Kastelliotissa Hall. ‘Serbian Medieval Monuments in Danger’ features monuments of medieval heritage in Kosovo. Until October 12.
Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking (22496930). ‘Coexistence, A. Tassos – Hambis’. Until July 24.
IN TOTO Gallery Space (22262470). ‘Closely Observed’ by Milenko Stevanovic. Until October 15.
Limassol
The Edit Gallery (25251710). ‘Carriers’ by Hannah Rowan. Until October 17.
XeniArtSpace Gallery, Trilogy Plaza. Group exhibition ‘Channelled: Women in Art Across Centuries’. Until March 5.
Lumière Contemporary Art Gallery. ‘Some Body’ by Christina Drakou. Until November 5.
Municipal Arts Centre, Papadakis Warehouses. ‘Nikos Kouroussis: labyrinths’, a retrospective of the artist’s wide-ranging practice. Until October 4.
PSI Foundation. ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’. Until October 24.
Larnaca
Kypriaki Gonia Gallery (24621109). ‘Worlds Elusive’ by Anna Vasiliou. Until October 10.
Pierides Museum (22128175). ‘Nina Iacovou: eyes to see and hands to touch’. Until May 6, 2027.
Cinema
New releases: ‘Verity’ (directed by Michael Showalter, starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett), ‘Digger’ (directed by Alejandro Inarritu, starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed and John Goodman) and ‘Tad and the Magic Lamp’ (animation, directed by Enrique Gato). RIO Limassol and Nicosia Mall, tel. 25871410.
Also showing: ‘Hold Onto Me’ (directed by Myrsini Aristidou, starring Christos Passalis, Maria Petrova and Jenny Sallo). RIO Nicosia Mall.
Nicosia, Pantheon. ‘Fatherland’, the new film by award-winning Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, centres on Thomas Mann’s relationship with his daughter Erika. Screenings: October 5 to 10, 8.30pm, with extra screenings at 6pm on October 1, 3 and 10. Running time: 82 minutes. pantheon-theatre.com
