Translation Kostas Topouzis
Adaptation Katerina Evangelatos
Direction Yolanda Markopoulou
Adaptation for the performance Alexandra K*

Performers Paris Alexandropoulos, Vivi Fotopoulou
Chorus voices Pentagónia (Mariam Rukhadze, Theodora Georgakopoulou, Asimina Anastasopoulou, Thalia Stamatelou)

Programming Olga Chatzifoti / Maggioli SPA
Programming, technical art design & VFX Alexandra Niaka
2D animation & graphic editing Chrysoula Korovesi (Mavra Gidia)
3D design Charis Lalousis
3D animation & 3D design Konstantinos Pagonis

Music & sound design Manolis Manousakis
Lighting design Angelos Papadopoulos
Sound mixing Kostas Stylianou

Assistant director Anastasia Manola
Live system operation Eva Kovatsou

Research supervisor Elena Oikonomou
Technology provider Maggioli
Production management Polyplanity Productions

He has no time for love, sex, and marriage! Artemis, the huntress, who is a virgin, she alone honors. Mortal with a goddess? What a mismatched pair. A great insult..”

Hippolytus (in the arms of Aphrodite) is an immersive augmented reality theatre experience, directed by Yolanda Markopoulou. Hippolytus—devoted to Artemis and sworn to chastity—rejects Aphrodite, goddess of love. In revenge, she curses him by making his stepmother, Phaedra, fall frantically in love with him. The piece blends live performance, spatial audio, and augmented visual layers to construct a hybrid immersive world. As Aphrodite’s fury intensifies, the natural world unravels—trees ignite, landscapes decay, and catastrophe looms. Audiences witness a mythic downfall where divine vengeance reshapes both human fate and the natural environment. In this pilot performance, audience members, wearing AR glasses, become active participants in the goddess Aphrodite’s revenge scheme. An immersive augmented reality experience.

The performance was developed as a pilot evaluation of the Horizon Europe project VOXReality, Voice-driven interaction in XR spaces, supported by the Maggioli Group, to study the technology’s performance, audience interaction with augmented-reality elements, and accessibility through multilingual subtitling. For more details, visit https://voxreality.eu.

The VOXReality pilot evaluation is also open for attendance through a user recruitment process. You can join the pilot and watch Hippolytus (In the Arms of Aphrodite) free of charge. To express interest, email [email protected].