CULTURAL SUMMER 2015

CHILDREN's THEATRE LONGOS - Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 9.30 p.m.

In the context of the Cultural Summer 2015 Children's Theatre Longos presented  "HANDS OFF    OF THE GAME!" by Eleni Artemiou Fotidou on Sunday, August 2, 2015, 2015 at 9.30 p.m. in the Cultural Centre Longos.

Children's Theatre Longos dedicates     this performance to all children,     especially to the children of     THE SMILE OF THE CHILD.

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CHOREOGRAPHY, SELECTION OF MUSIK, POSTER-DESIGN:

Georgios Sollbach

SCENERY:	MASK:
Werner Charilaos Sollbach	Natasa Rodopoulou

COSTUMES sewed by:	SOUND:
Mrs Anna Foteinou-Ntourou	Anna Rodopoulou, Mourdekas - Eghio

DIRECTION:
Maria Dourou-Sollbach

Thanks to the friens of Children's Theatre Longos - our little actors - which surprised us once more with their patience, their fantasy and their love to play theatre.

The chairman of the CULTURAL SOCIETY LONGOS, Mr Ierotheos Mourikis, welcomed the guests and told why the Children's Theatre Longos made choise of this play, a play which is dedicated to all children of the world. He told about the children´s right to play and the condemnation of children´s work. At the end of his speech Mr Mourikis anounced, that after the performance two of the little actors will be at the exits of the theatre in order to collect some money to support the organization "THE SMILE OF THE CHILD" and asked every visitor to do his donation whenever possible.

The author Eleni Artemiou Fotiadou comes from Ammóchostos (Famagusta)/Cyprus and is a primary school headmaster. She keeps herself busy with literature as well as writing screenplays for radio and tv. In 2000 her first children's book "Time returns" is published. Her screenplay "The azure diamond" was awarded in 2002 with the Cypus-Theatre-Organisation-Award. In 2005 she got with the play "In the land of the sun" the National Prize in Literature as well as in 2009 with her play "The top athlete". In 2011 she was awarded with her play "The little Mr Ou". She edited the collections of poem "The journey of the sun to the moon", "Alex-imenos" and "The ways of Adam". The works of Eleni Artemiou Fotiadou are rewardes in Cyprus and abroad.   "HANDS OFF OF THE GAME!" was awarded in the competition "Children´s rights" of authors of childrens theatre. The play describes the attempt to take the right to play from the children and to bring them into the world of adults with exploiting conditions. But some children prefer to play in the little forest behind their village, where the sorceress Skoupa-Aloupa and her assistant, the raven, for hundreds of years tried to find the philtre to manipulate the brain of people. The children´s play and their happy voices bother Skoupa-Aloupa and she trys to destroy the fun of the children with her witchery. But her plan failed due to a mistake of the raven and the the real friendship and the good ideas of one child: Sotiris.

 

The roles

Have a look at some photos:

THE ACTORS

Angelos Georgoudakis	Penelope Karnava	Christos Karnavas
Georgios Ntouros	Georgia Xydia	Sofianna Papageorgiou
Georgios Ntouros	Stathis Gerasidis	Stella Ntourou
Georgios Viktoratos	Georgios Kontis	Vasilis Kostopoulos
Fotini Chrysanthopoulou	Eleni Konti	Despina Karnava
Evelina Bouna	Alexis Bounas	the raven Triantafillos
Georgios Sollbach	Silia Georgoudaki ...	... and her dolls

 

"THE SMILE OF THE CHILD" thanks the CULTURAL SOCIETY LONGOS to invite the children of "THE SMILE OF THE CHILD" to this performance and for the initiative to collect money to support the activities of "THE SMILE OF THE CHILD". The Committee of the Longos Cultural Society "Lord Byron" thanks the auditors of the performance for their support.

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The perforrmance in a short video (00:03:14):