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On August 27, 1961, THEATRE LONGOS presented the play„THE SON OF THE SHADOW“„The Son of the Shadow“ (Ο γυιός του ίσκιου) is a three-act play by SPYROS MELAS, first published in 1907 and performed at that time by Eftychios Bonasero's theatre company at the Syntagmatos Theatre in Athens.
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Spyros Melas was born on 13 January 1882 in Nafpaktos. He was a Greek journalist, writer, playwright, director and founder of theatre groups, publisher and academic. He was one of the most prolific figures in literature, with a long career and diverse activities in the intellectual world of his time. However, he was also the one who denied Nikos Kazantzakis the Nobel Prize for Literature. Spyros Melas died in Athens in April 1966.
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