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On August 15, 1949 THEATRE LONGOS presented the play„THE ENGAGEMENTS“"The Engagements" (Τα Αρραβωνιάσματα) is a modern Greek play from 1925, "an ethnographic drama in three acts," by author Dimitris Bogris. Until the end of the 20th century, it was one of the most frequently performed plays in the modern Greek repertoire. As a theatrical genre, it belongs to naturalistic ethnography. Its main scenes are picturesque and vividly Greek in character.
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Dimitris Bogris was born in Athens on December 26, 1890. He was a Greek playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.
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His work "The Engagements" was honored with the Kotopouli and Averof prizes (1924) and established itself in the modern Greek repertoire with its performance at the National Theater, directed by Dimitris Rontiris. Bogris wrote many plays, the most important of which are: The Doctor Mavridis (1921), Loves (1923), The Bourini (1935), New Life (1936), Stormy Seas (1937), Everything Will Change (1938), Darkness in Epachto (1941), Dawn (1948), and many others. Alongside theater, he was involved in prose writing, screenwriting, and radio sketches. He was a skilled craftsman, ethnographer, and moralist. His entire body of work falls within the realm of modern Greek ethnographic production. Dimitris Bogris' works were staged at the best theaters (Mousouri, Kotopouli, A. Laimos, National, etc.), directed by the greatest in the genre (Alexis Minotis, Dimitris Rontiris, Pelos Katselis, Adamantios Lemos, Lambros Kostopoulos, Kostis Michailidis, Raya Mouzenidou, etc.), and performed by leading actors such as: Aimilios Veakis, Vaso Manolidou, Alexis Minotis, Manos Katrakis, Christoforos Nezer, Rita Mousouri, Elli Lambeti, and others. Today, his plays continue to be performed by various theater companies as exceptional and timeless works of art. Dimitris Bogris died on July 28, 1964, in Athens.
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