Δον Κιχώτης

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Don Kihotis is a children's theater production at Theatro Kappa in Kypseli, running Sundays at 11:30 through April 5, 2026. A knight made of shadows and live actors charges at windmills while a band plays the score three steps from the front row.

Ilias Karellas — the same shadow puppeteer behind the Megaron's Kara-Cartoon — adapts Mike Kenny's version of Cervantes' novel, combining actors with his signature contemporary shadow theater and live music on stage. Chara Giannakopoulou translated the text into Greek. This is the production's second season at Kappa, which suggests families came back and asked for more. The cast of five — Fanis Pavlopoulos, Nikolas Alexiou, Dimitra Stavrou, Pavlos Papacharistos, and Chrysoula Stambolaki — work between the physical stage and the screen, shifting between flesh and shadow mid-scene.

Theatro Kappa at Kypseli 2 is a converted cinema — originally the Park, renovated into a theater in 1974, renovated into one of Kypseli's most functional theater spaces — ground floor and basement of an apartment block, intimate enough that even the back row feels close.

If you want a production that treats a four-hundred-year-old novel as a picture book, this is not that. But if you want children old enough to follow a story watching Quixote's delusions play out in shadow and light while live music scores the madness, Karellas gives Cervantes the stage he deserves.

Tickets are thirteen euros, ten reduced. Sunday mornings at 11:30 — arrive early for seating. Weekday school performances also run Monday through Friday at 10:30.

A knight who sees giants where others see windmills, performed by a company that sees live theater where others see screens.