A musical-theatrical performance by Dimitris Malissovas,
dedicated to the life and work
of Alekos Sakellarios (1913 – 2026)
113 years of memory for a Greece lost in time...
at the Atrium of the The "Hellenic Cosmos" Cultural Centre
“Alekos Came Down from Paradise” arrives this summer at the Atrium of the The "Hellenic Cosmos" Cultural Centre, together with the women who marked his life, his songs from theatre and cinema, as well as his rare personal narrations, in a production by the The "Hellenic Cosmos" Cultural Centre of the Foundation of the Hellenic World and the Methexis company of Christos Tripodis. A musical-theatrical performance about all that passed us by, all that we remember, and all that continues to keep us alive will premiere on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
In the role of Alekos Sakellarios, Alexandros Bourdoumis.
Alongside him, Matina Nikolaou portrays the iconic women who passed through his life.
Together with a live 5-member orchestra conducted by Dimitris Kiklis.
Athens 1913
One of the most important creators of modern Greece is born.
He is born in a city surviving between dreams and upheavals.
Joys and sorrows. Laughter and sobs.
And time keeps flowing… silently, relentlessly… carrying away eras, people, moments. Because time has a strange way of teaching us to laugh at what once hurt us and to feel moved by what once made us laugh.
113 years
Since the birth of a child destined to see life differently.
To observe it, to satirize it, to love it deeply.
Through his words, his stories, and his inexhaustible humor, an entire Greece unfolds.
A Greece that changes, that loses and rediscovers itself.
A Greece human, tender, contradictory.
This performance is not simply a tribute.
It is a journey. A journey through the chronicles that recorded an era. Through the women who marked his life and inspiration.
Through the songs that dressed moments of theatre and cinema.
Through his personal narrations — at times bright, at times nostalgic. Through Alekos’ eyes pass figures we loved and grew up with. Aliki, Jenny, Vembo, Sperantza, Vassiliadou, Finos, and so many others…
On stage, the past converses with the present.
Laughter intertwines with emotion.
And memories come alive once again… not as something distant, but as something familiar.
Because perhaps in the end…
this is not a story about just one person.
It is the story of all of us.
1913 – 2026
113 years since the birth of Alekos Sakellarios...
113 years of memory...
113 years from a Greece lost in time...
Joys and sorrows. Laughter and sobs.
And time keeps passing... fading... changing...
Time makes us laugh at what once made us cry
and cry at what once made us laugh...
