The Tight Shoes: Tour

Kids Theater launches a nationwide tour with George Saris's iconic work, The Tight Shoes, directed by Athanasia Kalogianni. Making its theatrical debut, this beloved classic of Greek children's and young adult literature comes alive through a contemporary staging filled with music, movement, and carefree summer nostalgia. The production unfolds on the island of Aegina. A group of children at the threshold between childhood and adolescence discover friendship, love, jealousy, and the first emotions that make growing up alternately thrilling and difficult. Kalogianni's direction illuminates the children's world with tenderness and immediacy, bringing to the stage Saris's timeless truth and emotional depth. A performance capturing those summers that remain engraved within us forever.