It has been many years since I watched children’s shows with my children. A lot has changed since then. The Internet space has embraced everything, but after seeing “Gary, musical“I realized that children’s productions of the State Theater Northern Greece remain stable value. He was hugged a lot by young and old audience this is n performance – which will be repeated from October – perhaps because it came as redemption after the pandemic was curtailed. Perhaps because it is a perfectly structured aesthetic work, perhaps because it is a contemporary work that speaks directly to children’s hearts.

Based book with the same name Tasula Eptacoil, play poetic no matter how social it may be, written in our time for the feelings of our time, it creatively delves into the animal world in order to fill it with the concepts of camaraderie, justice, solidarity, the power of tenderness and love. OUR “Gary” It is one fairy tale with the truth about animals. Through their stories, we learn our own fears, our own dreams, our own mistakes.

The show also came at a time when voices of protest against animal cruelty, for instances of abuse and rejection, have risen. The strong voice also belongs to Garis, who goes through the children’s psyche through the theater arts to ask questions, awaken, redefine our relationship with our four-legged friends and especially with the cute, but misunderstood and suffering people horses. donkey.

“Garis” is a fairy tale with the truth about animals. Through their stories we learn our own fears, our own dreams, our own mistakes.

Young viewers “flyed” through the fantasy world with the superhero Gary, experienced respect for diversity, learned to “speak and listen with the heart” and how true love can set people free. A difficult bet when addressing the sensitive mental world of children.

It’s obvious that Tassula Heptakoilis and with “Gary” and her down-to-earth love of animals, and with the help of the TV show “Plana me ura” (ERT2), she can win the bet. The Medical Association of Thessaloniki also awarded her for this sensitivity and “invaluable contribution”. “If we showed the world that animals have their own life, character and feelings, then perhaps we would all treat them better,” Tasula said.

If after the end of each performance at least one child changed his attitude towards animals, then the educational role of the theater was fulfilled by KTHBE. Judging by the excitement and the noisy “Yes!!!”, with children’s hands raised to the question “does the donkey fly?”, the seed of sensitivity – first of all, the consciousness that animals think, feel, starve, rejoice and above all instill in us their love – seems to have gone to not one, but many other children. Multiply the few spectators crowding the Royal Theater from last November until the upcoming Palm Sunday, and then the words of Bertolt Brecht take on a special meaning: “The theater cannot change the world, but it can change the audience. If they want, they can change the world.”