Apostolos Doxiadis

Theater

The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist

Although The Tragical History started life as a play-within-a-novel, it now finally stands on its own. Its original (alleged) author, American poet, painter, film director and visionary Alfred Hoos wrote and designed it and his disciple, the Greek writer and director Yannis Philaretos put it together for performance. Both characters are fictional, out of a work in progress by Apostolos …continue reading…


Seventeenth Night (former working title: “Incompleteness”)

Seventeenth Night creates a fictional account of the last days of Kurt Gödel, one of history’s greatest mathematicians and, with Aristotle, the greatest logician. His seminal achievement, the Incompleteness Theorem, rigorously demonstrated the existence of limits to logical reasoning, even within the ivory tower of pure mathematics. Yet, his last days were anything but logical. The only known facts are …continue reading…