Vitrina

Sep 26, 2023

September 26, 2023 Andromachi Chrysomali, actress, director and theater expert, after the great success she made with the now legendary performance of Alki Zei’s iconic work The Kaplani tis Vitrina, experiencing huge artistic and commercial success, with more than 100,000 spectators, moving children, teachers and the public , returns to the Bretania Theater again with another important work of Children’s Literature, “The Wooden Swords” by Pantelis Kaliotsos, which is staged for the first time in the theater. A deeply topical anti-war work, highlighting solidarity, love and peace. ADVERTISING SPACE A few words about the project: In the town of Manolitsa, shortly after the Second World War, when the memories are still fresh, a cunning toy merchant, Barba Gantzos, decides to change the window of his shop and replace the trains, dolls and airplanes with all kinds war toys, helmets, cannons, tanks, water guns, captivating not only the children but also the teacher, rousing them and leading them into a frenzied war game to increase his profit. Students make plans during school breaks to defeat the “enemy”, divide into groups and the action begins. But what will happen when the children are faced with the consequences of the “war”? The author, with his special humor, directness, honesty and ingenuity, through an endless game, touches with his tenderness, the hearts of young children, moves them and inspires them against the universal problem of war and the helps them realize that no war is good, even one fought with wooden swords. The show that will premiere on October 18, at the Bretania Theater is a large production of Opsises Theatro, with talented actors and important contributors, with impressive 3D projections and Video art, representing the multiple stage spaces, with sets made by the set designer Aristotelis Karananos and costumes by Alexandra Siafkou, with the music of Michalis Avramidis, which will transport us to Manolitsa, and above all they will take us back to our childhood, where innocence, play and caring for those around us were the only hope for a better world, without wars. ADVERTISING SPACE This important, anti-war work by Pantelis Kaliotsos, with constant reprints since it was first published (1974), is a reminiscence of the author’s childhood, which places it in a fictional town of Manolitsa, when children carelessly played in the neighborhoods and were divided into teams to play their most favorite game which was war. The author states: “…. the famous battles I describe in Wooden Swords took place in the area of ​​Ardittos. I was Thanasis the Chief. In this war, I and the other Chief, Fotis the Marshal, but also our entire barefoot army, Foufis, Kontra Koutos, Pipis and the others, understood for the first time the poverty and suffering of the Civilian population” . Pantelis Kaliotsos, an old-fashioned writer, award-winning and prolific, tender and direct, writing and living with Memory and Dream as he himself has said, wrote novels, short stories, novellas and books for children and adults. He worked for radio and television, in programs, mainly for children. His work The Wooden Swords was awarded the prize of the Children’s Book Competition in Costa Rica (1997), and in the same year his novel A Sack of Hair received the First Prize of the Greek Children’s Book Circle. In 2002 his book The Sling of David was honored with the State Children’s Literary Book Award, the “Diavazo” Magazine Award and the Greek Children’s Book Circle Award. Coefficients: