The Greek Shadow Theater has all the backgrounds to express theatrical and popular way, in a constant process of fermentation and analysis, the modern Greek reality and to emerge as a theater of combative topicality. Karagiozis, with a huge cultural stature and a topical discourse, very often beyond his time, a discourse of opposition and rupture, freedom and challenge, in the new conditions that are forming in Greece in the Balkans, can not play a meaningless role. Karagiozis' patches, in the difficult, miserable and crippling years that they impose on us, will acquire an ever-increasing step, reason and topicality, like a mirror in which society will see its wrinkles.
In the essays and studies of this collection, a journey in the essence of our art, have been deposited everything that between persons, years and destinies I heard to hear from old and new masters of "berde". This effort is typical of all my many years and multifaceted operation in the world of our barefoot hero, in the dream and the magic of the Greek folk shadow theater. It is a journey that has been completed over the course of time, from the style, the ethos, the speech and the image of the tradition to the artistic dramatic perception and the innovations, advocating for the liveliness, functionality, assimilation and adaptability of the shadow theater, qualifications that allowed him to thrive, to grow, to live long and to emerge as a theater that steps on yesterday, listens to today and dreams of tomorrow.
With these texts, the springs, the blade, the paint, I try to match the story of my soul with a "crazy group" of shadows, with a patched and barefoot friend, so old but also so up-to-date. An old friend - look! - no matter how much they try to bring him to his knees inside and outside the "berde", he always gets up and with an optimistic look walks to catch the sun.
Author: Giannis Chatzis
Versions: outside the walls
Number of pages: 327
ISBN: 9786188352148
Ελισάβετ Νέσσερη –
Καταπληκτικό βιβλίο με εμπεριστατωμένη έρευνα!
Γιώργος Κοιλάκος –
Μια καταπληκτική διατριβή πάνω σε έναν από τους πρωτοπόρους της τέχνης του ελληνικού θεάτρου σκιών. Εμπεριστατωμενη έρευνα και παράθεση πληροφοριών αγνώστων μέχρι τώρα ακόμη και σε κοινό που ασχολείται με αυτή την τέχνη. Δεν πρέπει να λείπει από καμιά βιβλιοθήκη.
ΠΗΝΕΛΟΠΗ ΚΥΠΡΑΙΟΥ (verified owner) –
Ένα εξαιρετικό βιβλίο με άγνωστα στοιχεία για τον μπάρμπα – Γιώργο και τον δημιουργό του. Το προτείνω σε όλους τους καραγκιοζοφιλους! 👌