Children meet Wilde's Selfish Giant at the Multiplace of Agyra Publications

Agyra Publications and the Educational Drama Institute of Greece "Theatromathia" present one of the most wonderful and touching fairy-tales ever written from April 2 and on, at the Multiplace of the Publications. Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant" -dramatized, just like all the performances of the Institute, by Takis Chryssoulis- is a most educative (and symbolic) fairy-tale and becomes alive for the young friends of theatre and reading, every Saturday noon, till June 11, directed by Melina Papanestoros.
Once there was a Giant who forbade children from playing in his garden, so it was Winter there and never Spring. One day the children sneaked into the garden to play and Spring returned -- except for one corner, and one tree, where a little boy too small to reach the branches wept. This melted the Giant's heart, and seeing how selfish he'd been, he decided to help child into tree and make the garden a playground.
But when the giant appeared, the children ran away -- all except for the little boy who was crying and so didn't see. When the Giant raised the boy into the tree, the child kissed him in gratitude. The other children saw this and returned to play in the garden. Meanwhile, the child whom the Giant had placed in the tree vanished, and the other children did not know who he was, or where he had gone.
The children returned often to play in garden, but the Giant looked in vain for his special friend. Years passed, and the Giant was old. It was Winter again in the garden, except in one corner, where he saw the little boy playing. The Giant greeted his long lost friend, but was angered to find child had been wounded on his hands and feet. The Giant demanded to know what had happened so he could avenge such a terrible crime.
Nay!" answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love." The Giant, feeling a strange awe, asked the child who he was. "And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise." When children came into garden that day to play, they found the Giant, once upon a time known as "selfish", was dead.
Summary source: Cornerstone Magazine
The ID of the performance
Drama adaptation-lyrics: Takis Chryssoulis
Direction: Melina Papanestoros
Music: Anastassia Papadimitriou
Choreography: Marios Symeonidis
Cast: Aliki Katsavou, Yorgos Gatsios, Yorgos Fountis