HEIDI AND THE MOUNTAINS by Andreas Flourakis

HEIDI AND THE MOUNTAINS

by Andreas Flourakis

Director: Io Voulgaraki

From 28 October 2022

Can a small child bring about great change? Can someone that decides nothing for themselves transform everyone and everything around them with nothing more than their strength of spirit? Can they soften hearts calcified by loss, and galvanise young and old alike into embracing life once more? The answer is µyesΆ.  A µyesΆ as big, and warm, and bright as the µyesΆ that Heidi herself says to life. She says it by shouting and laughing and playing and getting into scrapes with her friends; she says it in her dreams and in her songs; she says it crying and surviving and losing and continuing and hoping and discovering.

“A story for children and those who love children”, was Johanna SpyriΆs subtitle for her novel, Heidi.  Today, almost 150 years later, countless adaptations of the book have appeared and the character has become a symbol of the will to live. Io Voulgaraki and a company made up of three generations of actors and three on-stage musicians re-introduce this timeless story to young and old alike in a modern and moving musical version by the multi-award-winning Andreas Flourakis.

Production team

Director: Io Voulgaraki

Sets: Magdalini Avgerinou

Costumes: Vasiliki Syrma

Movement & choreography: Katerina Foti

Music & lyrics: Dimitris Tasenas

Lyrics: Andreas Flourakis

Lighting: Alekos Anastasiou

Dramaturg: Maria Karananou

Music coach: Melina Paionidou

First directing assistant: Despina Stavridi

Second directing assistant: Barbara Daliani

Set design assistant: Xenia Papatriantafyllou

Costume design assistant: Marina Koulouri

Cast (in alphabetical order):

Christina Brekou, Christina Christodoulou, Yiota Festa, Titos Grigoropoulos, Vasilis Karaboulas, Alexis Kotsopoulos, Laertis Malkotsis, Ioustina Matsiasek, Dina Michailidou, Dimitris Tasenas, Noemi Vasileiadou