Agapi & Other Kinds of Love

Approximate Running Times: Doors - 6:30pm Start - 7:00pm Finish - 8:10pm In Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, Greek-Australian poet Luka Lesson searches unflinchingly for the meanings of love of Ancient Greece - and for the storytelling tradition his ancestors have passed on. Based on Plato's The Symposium, Agapi begins with Socrates telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named: Diotima. The gods then take the audience on a journey - collapsing time and space to arrive in modern day Athens, Luka's reputation as one of Australia's best storytellers shines as he then takes us on a journey through the kinds of love: Eros, Filia, Filoxenia, Philautia, Storgi, Pragma and the ultimate: Agapi. Self-love, erotic love, familial love and more all collide with statues of Aphrodite, Molotov cocktails and the Parthenon's steps. Equal parts rap concert, poetic musical & classical history lesson.