An innovative 24-hour performance, titled “Mount Olympus”, will be the highlight of the Dimitria Festival at the Thessaloniki Music Hall on October 10, the largest cultural event in northern Greece. The work is by blind Belgian artist Jan Fabre and takes a modern look at ancient tragedy using 28 performers.

“As a director I’m blind… I let the performers in the show lead me… They are my guide dogs,” says Fabre, a visual artist, director and author.

“I studied the ancient tragedies. Many of them ‘spoke’ to me, not as a set of dramas but individually as characters and meanings that each one of them carries with him. They are the initial concepts of hatred, passions, love, the idea of ‘foreign’, the cultural environment, the violence that are inherent in ancient tragedies as concepts and they are those I dealt with in the show,” he says.

The performance kicks off at 7 p.m. on October 10 and will be completed at 7 p.m. on October 11 at the Thessaloniki Music Hall. Spectators must be over 18 years old to attend.