Andreas Flourakis is a playwright. He has written more than thirty works for theater, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, German, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Albanian, Hindi, and Finnish. His plays have been staged both in Greece and internationally at theaters such as the National Theater of Greece (Athens), the Royal Court Theatre (London), the Art Theatre Karolos Koun (Athens), the National Theater of Spain (Madrid), Lincoln Center Theater (New York), Gate Theatre (London), West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds), Stegi, Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Tristan Bates Theatre (London), Epi Kolono (Athens), the National Theater of Albania (Tirana), Beep (Athens), the Theatre of the South (Athens), and Maison d'Europe et d'Orient (Paris). His plays have also been performed at various festivals, including HotINK (New York), Helsinki Festival (Helsinki), Gi60 (New York), Oyun Yaz Festival (Istanbul), International Monodrama Festival (Pafos, Cyprus), the Cultural Olympiad (Athens), and the Comparative Drama Conference (Los Angeles). Among his awards is an honorable mention in the one-act play contest of the Art Theatre Karolos Koun (2003), selection by the Janus Project for New Plays and New Playwriting Across Europe (2006), second prize in the one-act play contest organized by the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Rhodes (2008), third prize in the International Monodrama contest of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute (2006-2008), selection by the award-winning biennial playwriting Eurodram contest (2014), a Writer-in-Residence Award at the Royal Court International Residency (United Kingdom), and a Fulbright Artists Award (United States).
In 2024, a commemorative volume dedicated to his work was published by Mandragoras Editions, titled Mapping a World in Transformation – 44 Texts on the Writing of Andreas Flourakis.
Works
Richard III* 2024
The Story of the Broken Mirror 2023
The Guardian of the Lake 2023
Asia Minor 2022
Pyramids 2021
A Country Two Centuries After 2021
The Statues are Waiting 2020
Iliad 2020
Odyssey 2019
Scenes from a Father 2001-2019
Tap Out 2017
Robin Hood 2017
The Things You Take With You 2016
The Unaccompanied 2016
Circe 2015
Not that Wild 2015
Medea's Paws 2014
Bones 2014
My Antigone 2014
Lassie 2013
Heidi and the Mountains 2013
Exercises for Strong Knees 2013
Belle Époque 2012
I Want a Country 2012
Greek Cuisine 2011
Medea's Burqa 2010
Priam's Night March 2008
Cassie 2007
Animal 2006
Atreides, End 2005
Shell 2004
Blind Trust 2004
Her Leaves 2003
The Days Before You Came 2002
Faith Material 2002
The Phoenix and its Chicken 2001
Sea Blue 2001
Antelopes 2000