“Some things can be seen only through the eyes of the soldiers. Only the soldiers know how they look like… Just them and their beloved persons who await their return…”
The story is based on the Japanese fairytale Tsuki no Waguma, “The Crescent Moon Bear”. By means of innovative shadow play techniques, an improvised model manual projector, live electronic music and narration, we travel back to the trench warfare and its irreversible consequences.
“The Girl Who Wanted To Touch the Crescent” is a fairytale about bereavement, life and death, love and heartache as well as the adventurous journey of a little child who longs to save her father’s soul.
“The Girl Who Wanted to Touch the Crescent” will help you let go, set your thoughts aside and drift off into something real, genuine, innocent, beautiful and candid…
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Conception — Direction : Anastasia Parava, Stathis Tsemberlidis
Puppeteer- narration : Anastasia Parava
Music composition, sound design and live performance: Stelios Giannoulakis
Constructions, shadows, designs: Stathis Tsemberlidis
Conception and construction of the manual projector: Apostolis Sorolopidis
Lighting: Georgios Karakantzas –Anima Theatre, Anastasia Parava
Translation: Eliane Pauwels, Anastasia Parava,
Artistic Redaction and adaptation of the original text : Maggie Pouplis
Letter: Yiannis Papyrakis
Father’s letter: Maggie Pouplis
Father’s voice: Nikos Martziokas
Photographer: Vangelis Paravas
Video Footage — camera operator : Anna Kokli
Video editing and post production: Kostas Stergiou
Duration: 55 mins.
Target: there are two versions of the performance, one for children and one for adults over 12 years old.
Part of the play’s proceeds will be donated to Médecins du Monde of Greece.
For more information please contact:
ParaMana Puppet Theatre
4-6 Mavrogenous str, zip code 176 71
Kallithea, Athens
tel.: +30 2109216996, +30 2107563950 / mob.: +30 6973364350
fax.: +30 2109216996
e-mail: missparamana@gmail.com
