F.O.L. - CULTURAL SOCIETY LONGOS "LORD BYRON"


ACTIVITIES OF THE CULTURAL SOCIETY LONGOS

 

August 2, 1953 - Performance THEATRE LONGOS

 

              

 

On August 2, 1953, THEATRE LONGOS presented the play

"THE SON OF THE SHADOW"

"The Son of the Shadow" (Ο γυιός του ίσκιου) is a three-part play by Spyros Melas, first published in 1907 and performed at the time by Eftychios Bonasrastos' theater company at the Syntagma Theater.

              

Spyros Melas was born in Nafpaktos on January 13, 1882.

He was a Greek journalist, writer, playwright, director, theater founder, publisher, and academic. He was one of the most prolific figures in literature, with a long career and multifaceted activity in the intellectual world of his time. However, he was the instigator who deprived Nikos Kazantzakis of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Spyros Melas died in Athens in April 1966.

 


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