The Wondrous Story of Hor-Hor Agha

The Wondrous Story of Hor-Hor Agha is a shadow puppet music theatre performance inspired by the 1875 operetta Leblebici Hor-Hor Agha (The Chickpea Seller). It features original music for two singers and musicians from the Oros Ensemble, along with a new reading of the work, focusing on the tensions between the present and a past that is forever gone.

Searching for his daughter in the streets of a big city, the central hero clashes with a strange and at first hostile world, while his journey leads him to a path of transformation. Expanding its technical boundaries, the shadow puppet theatre form (featuring Eirini Mastora) transforms into the stage setting of a contemporary fairy tale. The music creates the background of sounds where the characters develop, while the text establishes a new story by combining folk and art traditions, oral and written language

Composition
Apostolis Koutsogiannis

Text
Marios Hatziprokopiou

Stage direction
Thanasis Kritsakis

Concept, scientific supervision
Areti Kondylidou

Shadow puppet theatre
Eirini Mastora

Performers
Giannis Dionysiou, Nikos Spanatis (singing)
Also featuring the musicians from Oros Ensemble
Vasilis Zigkeridis (qanun), Konstantinos Zigkeridis (accordion), Dimitris Karagiannakidis (cello), Eirini Krikoni (violin), Antonis Tsachtanis (clarinet)

Photographer All Greece, One Culture
Valeria Isaeva

NPO
RYMI