The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde translated – adapted by Andris Theodotou and directed by Dimitris Degaitis, returns to the Children’s Stage of the Veakis Theater almost ten years after its very successful first staging.

1930. The rowdy family of American ambassador Hiram Outis moves to the quiet English countryside and the infamous Canterville Tower. Along with everything, the walls, the furniture, the gardens, the courageous Mr. Outis acquires the ghost of the house, the old owner Sir Simon Canterville who is rumored to have “lived” there for more than two centuries. The ghost, does his best to appear ‘worthy of his terrible reputation’, but his tricks are as old as the…

Will he succeed in scaring the Outies, or will he finally start scaring the “jazzy” American new tenants? What is a ghost if no one is afraid of it? And really, why did he become a ghost? Is it time for peace and light to return to Canterville Tower? You might expect The Canterville Ghost to be a scary story. But the wonderful Oscar Wilde, with a clever allegory, acrobating the limits of the fairy tale, wrote an amazingly humorous short story about the clash of two worlds, the old and the new, that of conservatism and myths and that of free thought and reason. A conflict each time more or less obvious and intense, but always timeless.

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