A multi-part musical work composed by Dimitris Papadimitriou and inspired by Aesop’s fables will be staged at the Onassis Cultural Centre until December 8.  The work is primarily orchestral, though singers and a narrator bring the fables’ animal heroes to life using the shadow puppets theatre tradition. Papadimitriou interprets Aesop’s fables as providing archetypal lessons in citizenship.

Aesop is the ancient Greek fabulist whose existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive.

Nevertheless, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries, in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. His dialogues are brief, his stories short, and they all end with a lesson to be learned.