August 25, 1968 - Performance THEATRE LONGOS

On August 25, 1968, THEATRE LONGOS presented the play "MORFO" "Morfo" is a play by SPYRIDON PERESIADIS.

Greek author Spyridon Peresiadis was born in 1854 in Mesorougi, Achaea, where he spent his early childhood. He attended primary school in his village and then the Greek school in Akrata. He later served as secretary of the Municipality of Nonakridos and as a teacher at the primary school in neighboring Peristera. In his childhood, he suffered his first blow of fate: during a children's game, a sharp piece of wood injured his eye, resulting in partial loss of vision in one eye. Much later, in 1879, during an amateur performance in Akrata, in which he himself participated, a fragment of a cap from a gun used for dramatic effect was lodged in his eye, completing the tragedy. It seems that he managed to transfer to Athens, where he underwent systematic treatment, but even the science of the capital was unable to halt the progression of traumatic cataracts, which would slowly lead to total blindness. After his mother's death in 1887, he settled in Akrata for a decade, during which time he wrote his most important plays. In 1897, he moved to Athens, where he lived until the end of his life on January 11, 1918.