Greek theater celebrated in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM - Crossing the street to get to the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA), I saw three students trying to take a selfie with the image of Giannis Angelakas from the poster of "Nekyia" in the background. "Are you Greek?" I asked the young women. No answer. I repeated the question in English. "My boyfriend is Greek," one called Eline explained. "We're coming tonight, we can't miss it."

They were all university students from Rotterdam. I was not surprised that Greeks would travel from Belgium and Germany for Angelakas - frontman of the popular rock act Trypes - but I was not sure the young Dutch women would understand that what they were about to see was not a concert, but a stage adaptation of Homer. It is a choreographer directing an actress and a Greek rock musician in L Rhapsody, the darkest of "The Odyssey," I explained. "Very interesting but it's also very...