Paris Tacopoulos first broke his silence, like an umbilical cord, in 1930. He died in 2020. At the age of twelve, during the war, he again broke his silence to the sound of different Sirens, producing a theatrical play of unknown parentage on the terrace of his house, where, of course, he was both director and protagonist.<\/p>\n
In 1950 he published his first book of poems, after his return from London, where he did his \u201ccultural service\u201d in the years of 1948-49. It was in London that thanks to his friend, the painter John Craxton, that he made the acquaintance of the \u201cGraham Sutherland\u00a0 – Henry Moore\u201d group of Painters and Sculptors, among whom were, Francis Bacon, John Minton, Lucien Freud, who \u201cnever read grandpa\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Before going to London, he studied English Literature at Eddie Duckworth\u2019s great school of friendship, where he came into contact with different \u201cBrave New Worlds\u201d and \u201cVile Bodies\u201d revisited.<\/p>\n
After his first Collection of Poems and some more readings of Eliot\u2019s \u201cSweeney Agonistes\u201d, he published six more books of poems, two books of short stories \u201cWho dat up dere?\u201d and \u201cUnparallel Lives\u201d and two novels, \u201cRenowned City\u201d, and \u201cThe Apostates\u201d, all Ikaros Publications, and two volumes of his \u201cHollow Testament\u201d, (Keni Diathiki), and his \u201cWonderings Towards the Nations\u201d, being the second volume of his Keni Diathiki, for which most of our \u201ccrickets\u201d have not yet broken their silence. He has also been a \u201ccricket\u201d himself, mainly a Theatre Reviewer, in many literary and political newspaper and magazines and was the Artistic Director on \u201cKathimerini\u201d, after the fall of the junta, in 1974.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Since 1967 he has written so many plays that eventually a lot of theatres had to present them on stage \u2013 the first being the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun, and last, but fortunately most, Student Theatre Groups.<\/p>\n
His \u201cPrelast of the Monikins\u201d, his \u201cAristo-funny\u201d tragicomedy, (which was the cause of his unholy conception of the Hollow Testament), first produced by Carolos Koun Art Theater, had a successful revival at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, and at the yearly European Theater festival in London, by the British Theatro Technis, on November 2009, two productions with Nicos Kalamo, as Monikin, the founder and director of the Theatrico Phytorio in Aegina, an accomplished actor and student of Stela Adlers\u2019 actors studio in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n
One of his plays The last Abortion<\/em>, translated in Russian by Jannis Nikolopoulos, was first presented by the St. Petersburg Theater Academy directed by Sergei Tcherkasski, during the Greek Russian Festival in the St. Petersburg in 2006, organised by Dmitri Mikalevski.\u00a0<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.paristacopoulos.gr<\/a><\/p>\n PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Oh my Lord put a seal on my lips, Potamos Publications 2009<\/p>\n The Wedding Pilaf or Waiting for Beta, a satellite play rotating round Samuel Beckett,\u00a0Potamos Publications 2009<\/p>\n The Ninth, a play directed by Maya Lymberopoulou, one of Ten Commitments, a series of plays produced by Experimental Stage of \u00a0the National Theatre in 2006<\/p>\n Two way Ride, and If Hippocrates was alive today, Daedalus Publications 1981<\/p>\n Disco, a four acts play, Daedalus 1981<\/p>\n The second Absence or the Return of Marx and Engels, Daedalus Publications 1979<\/p>\n La Pansion, Daedalus Publications 1979<\/p>\n Fish Soup and five more monologues, 1979 (The Third Pollen, Iranocypris and Neamachilos, Papoua my Love, Around the world in Eight Minutes, The Exodos)<\/p>\n Antimenopause and five one act play, Daedalus Publications 1979 (Partousa or Invitation for Tea, Teiresias Bound, May Party, Retro, The Nano-Clone)<\/p>\n Eight more Cerebral Episodes, 1976 (Reasons of Honour, Elephant Trunk, Examinations, The tones and spirit of a Greek Tango, Mosaic Lessons of a Left Jawl, A Manger without Horses, The Last Abortion)<\/p>\n Eight Cerebral Episodes, Daedalus Publications 1976 (The wonderful world of Oh, The Purgatory, The Plaster of Paris, Handball, The Bridge, The great Mason, A favorable Match, Ante Thermopylae)<\/p>\n The Prelast of the Monikins, Daedalus Publications 1966<\/p>\n takopoulos.jpg<\/p>\n Paris Tacopoulos first broke his silence, like an umbilical cord, in 1930. He died in 2020. At the age of twelve, during the war, he again broke his silence to the sound of different Sirens, producing a theatrical play of unknown parentage on the terrace of his house, where, of course, he was both director and protagonist.<\/p>\n In 1950 he published his first book of poems, after his return from London, where he did his \u201ccultural service\u201d in the years of 1948-49. It was in London that thanks to his friend, the painter John Craxton, that he made the acquaintance of the \u201cGraham Sutherland\u00a0 – Henry Moore\u201d group of Painters and Sculptors, among whom were, Francis Bacon, John Minton, Lucien Freud, who \u201cnever read grandpa\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n Before going to London, he studied English Literature at Eddie Duckworth\u2019s great school of friendship, where he came into contact with different \u201cBrave New Worlds\u201d and \u201cVile Bodies\u201d revisited.<\/p>\n After his first Collection of Poems and some more readings of Eliot\u2019s \u201cSweeney Agonistes\u201d, he published six more books of poems, two books of short stories \u201cWho dat up dere?\u201d and \u201cUnparallel Lives\u201d and two novels, \u201cRenowned City\u201d, and \u201cThe Apostates\u201d, all Ikaros Publications, and two volumes of his \u201cHollow Testament\u201d, (Keni Diathiki), and his \u201cWonderings Towards the Nations\u201d, being the second volume of his Keni Diathiki, for which most of our \u201ccrickets\u201d have not yet broken their silence. He has also been a \u201ccricket\u201d himself, mainly a Theatre Reviewer, in many literary and political newspaper and magazines and was the Artistic Director on \u201cKathimerini\u201d, after the fall of the junta, in 1974.<\/p>\n \u00a0Since 1967 he has written so many plays that eventually a lot of theatres had to present them on stage \u2013 the first being the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun, and last, but fortunately most, Student Theatre Groups.<\/p>\n His \u201cPrelast of the Monikins\u201d, his \u201cAristo-funny\u201d tragicomedy, (which was the cause of his unholy conception of the Hollow Testament), first produced by Carolos Koun Art Theater, had a successful revival at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, and at the yearly European Theater festival in London, by the British Theatro Technis, on November 2009, two productions with Nicos Kalamo, as Monikin, the founder and director of the Theatrico Phytorio in Aegina, an accomplished actor and student of Stela Adlers\u2019 actors studio in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n