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  IOANNA MAMAKOUKA & ANGELUS NOVUS Ioanna Mamakouka is a graduate of the French Language and Literature department (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), with postgraduate theatrical studies in Paris (Université Paris III). She has attended many seminars of body expression, clown, puppet theater and pantomime techniques in France, Paris III, clown workshop with Ph. Gaulier, mimicry with Pleusis, puppet theater with T. Sarris, mask creation with L. Desmetes, musical theater with G. Apergis, phonetics with M. Gementzaki, modern dancing and body expression with M. Mendez and G. Apaix. She has cooperated with Theater “Fournos”, Theater “Kouklas” and she has worked as an assistant director and as an actress in France and in Greece. She has directed many drama workshops for children and educationalists in France and Greece. In collaboration with the drama company Angelus Novus and the Director Damianos Konstantinides, she has created four children’s play -based on mimicry, Puppet Theater and Mask Theater, dancing etc. in which she performs all the parts alone. Ioanna Mamakouka & Angelus Novus present a fairytale with puppets for children. It is a puppet show where the setting is the puppeteer's body and faces are her own hands. Games of delusion full of transformations... A storyteller arrives, carrying her suitcase which during the performance changes into a house and a closet while her cape becomes a nightly forest and her arms, hands and fingers transform into fairytale heroes... Her mission: to narrate to Humpty Dumpty his story which might not sound like the one we already know. The storyteller - with the help of children, who have already been given musical instruments-, presents the nightly forest in which Humpty Dumpty is lost. Then he is the one who takes the leading role by sneaking out of her cape sleeve. Meanwhile Nantou has swallowed the pebbles. Nantou is a bird, created through a series of transformations of the clothes which are hanging in the closet which previously was a house and even before was a suitcase.
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