Shadow theater in Greece and the Greek diaspora
Collection of handwritten performances of the Puppeteer Vasilaros (Vasilios Andrikopoulos)
The collection consists of 52 medium-sized notebooks (most of them measuring 17x24 and with a different number of pages each) which include approximately 160 handwritten "performances" of Karagiozis. The notebooks were ordered and purchased from the puppeteer by Professors Emeriti Theodoros Hadjipantazis and Grigoris Sifakis and were donated to the Theatre Studies Department of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH) in 2012. Most of these performances were written during the 1960s and 1970s, shortly after Vasilaros retired from his profession as a puppeteer.
Scientific Responsible: Constantina Georgiadi
The aim of this specific research activity is to gather the available sources on the subject of Greek shadow theatre in the daily and periodical press from the beginning of the independent Greek state until approximately the mid-twentieth century.
Scientific Responsible: Constantina Georgiadi
The aim of this specific research activity is to gather the available sources on the subject of Greek shadow theatre in the daily and periodical press from the beginning of the independent Greek state until approximately the mid-twentieth century. The aim of the activity is to create two databases on Greek shadow theatre:
- Database of newspaper and periodical publications on Karagiozis
- A register of Vasilaros handwritten performances
- Bibliographic database
- Performance register
The main pillar of the activity is the collection of the handwritten performances of the interwar famous shadow puppet player Vasilaros or Vasilios Andrikopoulos. The collection is located in the Archive of the Department of Theatre Studies of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies.
