The play, set in Warsaw of the 30’s, is based on the biography and writings of the famous Polish pediatrician, educator and children's author, Dr Janusz Korczak. Director that time of an orphanage for Jewish children, Korczak envisioned and created a paradigmatic children's republic founded upon the principles of democracy and idealism. The entire play is a hymn to the poetic and stormy one-man’s attempt to maintain justice, tolerance and humanitarianism in the face of totalitarian oppression; a hymn to a dream abruptly brought to an end in the gas chambers of Treblinka.

Luckily, Korczak’s pioneering work with children was revealed after his death and became the basis for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Christina Travlopoulou and Go Nagano bonded together into a guitar duo since their studies at The Juilliard School, New York, the common denominator being their mutual interest in early music masterworks that were not originally composed for the guitar. Thus, Christina on a six-string guitar and Go on an eleven-string guitar began making their own transcriptions of solo and concertante works from the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic Era, building this way a unique repertoire which they, always to high acclaim by audiences and critics alike, have presented in the United States, Brazil and Japan, at such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Tokyo’s Casals Hall and Yamaha Hall, and Brazil’s SESC Hall.

Performances for “Korczak” will take place JULY 4 - JULY 14 KAI Theater Tokyo, JULY 15 Ukawa Memorial Hall Kanagawa, JULY 16 Kyouiku Kaikan Hall Chiba and JULY 17 Sakuramate Sun Hall Saitama. For more information contact Artline Promotion at info@artlinepromotion.com