Honouring de Balzac’s masterpiece

A theatre performance in a unique location is coming up. One of Honoré de Balzac’s most famous stories, The Unknown Masterpiece, will be presented as a theatrical reading this September at the renowned Nicosia gallery, adapted into Greek.

The short story explores the life of a painter who might be either a tragic failure or a transcendent genius – or perhaps both. The tale, which has inspired artists like Cézanne, Henry James and Picasso, as well as the surrealist André Breton, delves...