The Founding of Thiasos Lemos
On June 14, 1944, Adamantios Lemos and Mary Giatra Lemou founded the Lemos Theatrical Company. Lemos was still with the armed forces in the Middle East when he was in exile and was unable to have a theatrical company that has his own name, the theatrical company was actually known as Mairi Lemou Company. (On June 1944, Maria Giatra Lemou resigned from the Armed Forces Recreational Council and ran as a main company in which Adamantios Lemos acted and directed 23 works.
The beginning of the presentation on June 14, in the Amusement Park summer theater in Alexandria and several times in the cities of Cairo (at Esvekia and Lycée Français), Masura, Zayazik, Kafr el-Zayat, Suez, Port Said which was planned in the Metropolitan winter theatre and at Moasat in Alexandria:
23 works that were played in 302 performances were:
- Ladislaus Fodor
- Charles Marais
- The Falcon by Francis de Croizier
- Seat 47 by Louis Bernouilles
- Georges Tourner
- Pierre Wolf
- Paul Geraldi
- Émile Zole
- Erotic Adventures by de Fler and Cavialler
- Dario Nikodemi
- Arnold and Bach
- Brue
- Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
- Anton Chekhov
- And in Greek:
- Ta arravoniasmata (Τ' αρραβωνιάσματα) and Bourini (Μπουρίνι) by Dimitris Bogris
- To Fidanaki (Το Φιντανάκι) by Pantelis Horn and Dimitris Bogri
- That's What I Am (Αυτός είμαι = Aftos ime) by Th. Sinodinou
- O Pirasmos (Ο Πειρασμός) by Grigorios Xenopoulos
- Na zi to Mesolongi (Να ζει το Μεσολόγγι = Long Live Messolongi) by Vassilis Rotas
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