Who We Are

AEROPLIO is a non-profit theatre organisation founded in 1985 with the sole aim of making theatre for children. It is run by the director NIKOLAS KAMTSIS and the set and costume designer MIKA PANAGOU. It presents performances for children and organises celebrations and events for children of different ages, always guided by educational value and by children’s aesthetic needs.

Aeroplio Is

• It has carried out many years of work and research into Greek folk tradition, history and mythology, and has collected fairy tales and myths from every region of Greece (www.greekmyths.gr), which it put together on a DVD funded by the Information Society.

What We Have Done over the Years

1 . Member of the INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

2 . Member of the INTERPLAY FESTIVAL FOR YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS network

3 . It has repeatedly taken part in children’s theatre festivals abroad, such as in Munich, Helsinki and Paris, at WOLKENSHOFEN 1997 and at DIEDORF 1998. In CHELMSFORD, England. EUROKIDS FESTIVAL (Washington DC, USA). Antipodes 2012 (Melbourne, Australia). Bulgaria 2017 and Sweden 2018 with ‘Passport: Green Button’. Frankfurt, July 2025, with ‘The Breath of the Earth’. Seville, October 2025.

4 . Its plays are always approved by the Ministry of Education.

5 . Its shows are reviewed for their educational value by educators and teachers. They awaken children’s imagination, enrich their experiences and broaden their horizons and their inner world.

6 . It has always had a permanent home: the TOPOS ALLOu Theatre, with 2 auditoriums (17 Kefallinias Street), in KYPSELI.

7 . It is in no way a theatre that exploits the need of children and parents for entertainment by presenting irresponsible shows that rely on cheap effects.

Over all these years we have presented many performances of plays for children, and many of them have also travelled abroad.

Besides our theatre performances, we have organised:

Drama games

Research-based educational programmes and CD publications, such as the Creative Learning programme and SCOUT (a fun game for children based on the history of theatre).

Events with varied programmes for children and adult audiences.

Discussions with organised groups of children prompted by theatre performances, and discussions with working parents at companies who were having trouble communicating with their children because of their work.

Games and activities for children and parents, organised to help children get to know, and come to terms with, their father’s or mother’s work.

Drama games held in the parents’ workplaces (offices or factories).

On many occasions, working in partnership, we have run original corporate programmes aimed not only at the children but also at the employees themselves. (Visits to museums, theatres and play areas, guided tours of factories, newspapers, archaeological sites, etc.)

Alongside its performances and educational activities, AEROPLIO is involved in European projects and in other cultural and theatre activities with a European reach.

We like to believe that our role is useful to our country, and that is why we carry on despite the difficult conditions.