Introduction: Modern Greek theatre on the threshhold of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The 1990s witnessed a major turning point in the development of modern Greek theatre. Researchers of the last period of the twentieth century and the beginning of this century have observed not only a complex concentration of agitation, transformation and transition, but also moments of uncertainty; a composition of contrasting new phenomena mixed with old theatrical practices, and promising innovative beginnings accompanied by regression. This landscape clearly reflects the dynamic developments in Greek political and national life.