Arts on Wednesday on Wednesday 9th April at Massey’s Palmerston North campus saw an inspired performance of Socrates Now by Yannis Simonides. The show marked the the final leg of a 300 date world tour which took place across 15 countries.

The internationally acclaimed one-man show, presented by New York-based Emmy Award winner, Yannis Simonides, puts the audience in a ringside seat at the trial of Socrates in 399BC, at which Socrates, the Greek founder of Western philosophy – dubbed the “bad ass of Athens” – was sentenced to death because his insightful questioning embarrassed influential Athenians and was claimed to corrupt youth.