"SCROOGE AND THE SPIRITS OF THE HOLIDAYS"

The children's theatre of GIANNIS CHRISTOPOULOU continuing its successful twenty-year course,

is pleased to present this year's most topical CHRISTMAS STORY,

based on the well-known play by CAROLOS DIKENS

"SCROOGE AND THE SPIRITS OF THE HOLIDAYS"

Direction & Theatrical Adaptation: KELLY STAMOULAKIS

The Christmas Story has a special place in the literature of world literature.

After all, CAROLOS DICKENS is considered one of the greatest writers of all time.

WHAT MESSAGE DO YOUNG & OLD RECEIVE?

It is very important the message that the children receive from the story of the greedy SCRUTZ, who, after the intervention of the three spirits who reveal to him the ugliness of his life, is transformed into a good-natured man who wants to share his property with his fellow human beings. Especially in these difficult times in which we live and must support each other in order to survive, the message of the great Dickens seems all the more urgent and necessary.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE PROJECT

Christmas 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly, miserly old miser who hates Christmas and the holidays and all they stand for. On the night of the eve, SCRUTZ gets an uninvited visit from a spirit, his former partner JACOB MARLEY a miserly miser like SCRUTZ. He warns him that if he doesn't change his way of thinking by looking at things more pleasantly with a different eye, he will end up like him, doomed to eternal torment... That same night three more spirits will visit the grumpy and selfish SKRUTZ, those of Christmas past, present and future... whose mistakes they point out... After this experience, Christmas Day dawns finding a different SKRUTZ....

Scrooge will be at the Orpheus Cinema/Theatre

TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER Time 5.15p.m.

Pre-sale tickets at ticketbox.gr / Pre-sale 11€ Box Office 12€

Note for the Director

Kelly Stamoulakis

Writer, director, actor, lyricist. Born in Athens. He studied theatre at the Veaki and Hatzikou drama schools and film directing at New York College. Member of the Greek Actors' Association (S.E.H) and the Greek Directors' Society (E.E.S). He has written and directed plays for children in the major theatres of Athens: "To the Edge of a Dream", "The Craziest Three Days", "The Golden Prism", "Only if you believe it...", "The Prince and the Poor", "Acrobats of Fortune", "In Search of Rapunzel", "Astran and Melenia", "Stop the Earth from Descending", "The Iliad", "The Secret of Thalassochora", etc.a as well as fairy tales and music books for children ("Musical Alphabet", "Musical Arithmetic"), scripts for short films, such as: "The Beautiful Lou" and "The Lila Mandelia" (Awarded by the Hellenic Film Centre), as well as a guide to theatre play and theatre education for teachers.

Lyrically participates in the personal albums of Lavrentis Mahairitsas

"Heroes in Carbon", "They Changed a Lot", "Lie to Lie" and has written lyrics for her theatre productions. She also taught drama and playwriting to children and teachers for many years.

Forming, in the course of her career, a specific perception and view on theatre for children and wanting to present a proposal of high aesthetics with elements of renewal, she founded the "Avanti" company in 2002, gathering for this purpose established artists and young talented people with whom she works to this day. Her constant collaborator over the years has been Lavrentis Machairitsas, who has composed the music for all her plays, the CDs containing her books, as well as for her short film "The Lilac Handkerchiefs".