Our Big Circus!

On 23rd March 2013, our school presented an adaptation of the play 'Our Big Circus', written by Iakovos Kampanelis. The teachers of 3rd and 4th grade (Ms Katerina Diamantopoulou kai Ms Kyriaki Trifonidou) along with all their students presented a beautiful adaptation on the occasion of the commemoration of the Greek War of Independence.

'Our Big Circus' is an allegorical, political, satirical play. It was first performed on June 22nd 1973 (during the 7-year dictatorship), by the Karezi-Kazakos troupe, leading the two main actors to incarceration and the writer under house arrest for two months.

It's a documentary that runs through Greek History, from the arrival of Othon in 1833 until the Second World War and the 1967-1974 Dictatorship. It’s an epic play for the nation, where one can see the virtues, the deficits, the rise and the fall, the struggles and the agony of the people, who full of the great history, try to find a path towards an ambivalent future.

"Are you Greek? Why are you bowing? Rise! We even talk to the Gods standing up..."

The quote is attributed to Alexander the Great, talking to his soldiers, but also to Greek National Revolution hero Theodoros Kolokotronis.