Prometheus in Athens

NAME : APOSTOLOS GIANNOPOULOS

AGE : 39

PLACE OF RESIDENCE : KAISARIANI

BIRTHPLACE : ATHENS

ORIGIN : TRIPOLI AND NAXOS

ON THE NIGHT OF THE PERFORMANCE HE WILL DRIVE FROM HIS HOME TO THE AKROPOLIS SUBWAY STATION ON HIS MOTORBIKE, FOLLOWING THE ROUTE ETHNIKIS ANTISTASEOS, YMITTOU, FRANTZI, ZINNI AND DIMITRAKOPOULOU, JOIN THERE WITH FRIENDS OF THE "DEAF THEATRE" - COMPANY AND WALK WITH THEM UPHILL TO THE HERODEION.

 

For the last 25 years Apostolos is the manager and one of the basic actors of the "Deaf Theatre" - company of Athens. One of his basic goals all these years has been the change of the paragraph in the presidential decree about drama schools, which allows only able-bodied people to study : "Although deaf people are considered to be 67% disabled, we should break down prejudice and fight for an equivalent training."

Touring with the theatre - company and playing for various soccer teams ("I join every team that needs a player") gave him the opportunity to travel all over Europe and the USA : "In the 1993 Deaflympics in Sofia we won the gold medal in soccer". 
Apostolos is currently employed at the Ministry for Rural Development.

He doesn't read ancient drama, but identifies with Prometheus, "because I am also a giver".