Pegasus and Mendios
The Amazing Adventures of a Winged Horse and a Little Donkey
by EugeneTrivizas
Tired of life as an illustration
in an old library book on "Journeys in Greece", the little donkey
'Mendios' decides to pop out for some fresh air. Funnily enough, 'Pegasus', an illustration of the winged horse from the book "Greek Mythology Vol. III" on the
opposite shelf has the same idea. Together these new found friends set
out on a series of amazing adventures through the ages.
The Book, illustrated
by Stathis, and
translated by John Leatham ,is
published by the Greek Ministry of Mass Media, Athens, 2000. The Author
Dr
Eugene Trivizas
is one of Greece's leading writers for children, best known in the UK for
his story "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig". He is also a Senior
Research Fellow at the Sociology Department of the University
of Reading , where he is director of Criminal
Justice Studies.
The Team
Aria Sandis (Mendios, Narrator)
Amy Enticknap (Pegasus)
Constantine Sandis (Guitar) Mayou Trikerioti (Set Design) Stephanie Bamberg (* Frankfurt Only * Frau Spitz, German Translation) "Packed to the limit, the Children's
Library was overflowing with the joyous laughter of its young (but also its older) visitors...the songs beautified the presentation of the tales
which conveyed numerous familiar yet each time refreshened Greek images,
from the Gods of Olympus, to Theseus and the Minotaur, and even the Shrove Monday Festival of Kites
, the children welcoming the clever, comic richness which
the songs gave to the stories with endless laughter. "
Parikiaki ,
24 May 2001
Pegasus and Mendios was premiered
at the Barbican Children’s Library, as part of "Greece
in Britain at
the Barbican" (10 May - 2 June 2001), a series of events inspired
by Homer's epics and Greek mythology which formed a part of Tantalus:
A Festival. Following its success, we then took the show to the International Frankfurt Book Fair
in September 2001, to New York, for a series of performances in January 2003, to the Grove Auditorium at
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
in May 2003 where it was performed as part of the 'Writing Between Cultures - Greek Writers in England' Symposium, and most recently to the 3rd Berlin International Literature Festival, in September 2003.
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