Google is celebrating the 105th birthday of Karolos Koun, Greek theater director.
Karolos Koun was born in Bursa (a city now in Turkey) on September 13, 1908. He then moved with his family to Istanbul. In 1928 he studied aesthetics at the Sorbonne and later moved to Athens where he was an English teacher and directed his first few plays.
Google says the doodle in Greece today celebrates Karolos Koun, theater director and founder of the experimental Art Theater, who was known for his bold, expressive stagings of Aristophanes’ comedies and other ancient Greek plays.
The doodle showcases a colourful staging of an ancient play and can be viewed on the Google Greece homepage.
Koun is also known for his productions: Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1942), GarcÃa Lorca’s Blood Wedding (1948), and The Glass Menagerie (1947) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1949).
He died on 14 February 1987, at 78 after suffering a heart attack.
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