genre: Object theater - very little text performed in English
written and produced by: Hop Signor
direction: Evgenia Tsichlia
set design: Hop Signor
light design: Hop Signor
technician on tour: Evgenia Tsichlia
cast: Thanos Sioris
The color blue is the color of their uniforms. There are plenty of jokes circulating about men in uniforms. You probably know some. Humor related to the police environment is the starting point of the show. The men in uniforms have to follow orders. Will they carry out orders at any cost? What can a world full of order and system make out of a person?
genre: Object theater - very little text performed in English
written and produced by: Hop Signor
direction: Evgenia Tsichlia
set design: Hop Signor
light design: Hop Signor
technician on tour: Evgenia Tsichlia
cast: Thanos Sioris
...the jury awarded the prize for best male role to Thanos Sioris "for showing the power of small gestures and the precision, wit and tenderness in creating characters" in the performance "Blue" by Hop Signor Puppet Theatre from Greece...
For its ability to combine lightness and depth within an essential and surprisingly effective scenic form, the Immagina Award 2026 is presentedto BLUE, a performance by the Greek company Hop Signor.
...the award for acting achievement (male actor) is presented to Thanos Sioris, for the outstanding acting creations in the play "BLUE" performed by the "Hop Signor" Theater from Athens, Greece...
“A communication space is created that is grotesquely funny, but at the same time heartbreaking in its desire for closeness.”
Ana Nežmah, Patriot Magazine
“Blue stands by its nature on the border between puppet theater and object theater and proves that one is not superior to the other. That an audience-impressive and entertaining form can be achieved even using minimalist animation tools, and that one field can go hand in hand with another.”
Adele Vondrakova, loutkar online
The play, full of immediate humor, unexpected situations, grimaces, gestures, familiar music, and cute "Lego" accessories, entertained the audience and made them laugh countless times.
Lukas Kowala, ostravan.cz
"Blue" is a performance that works like a distorting mirror—ironic, distorted, yet painfully true. It forces reflection not through what it says, but through what it allows us to feel. It leaves us with questions without providing answers. It's an artistic meditation on the human condition in a system based on coercion and hierarchy. And perhaps that is precisely why it is so powerful.
Wiesław Kowalski, teatrdlawszystkich.pl
The Hop Signor artists managed to sound light in content and heavy in delivery, for which – a big round of applause. This was the last performance at this year's ANIMO Festival, and it was beautiful to end on such a high note.
IWO DĄBROWSKI, for the international festival ANIMO
Blue stands out for its ability to engage with contemporary realities without renouncing a playful and inventive dimension, offering a lucid yet never didactic perspective on the world. A performance that demonstrates how puppetry and figure theatre remain today a living, necessary, and deeply communicative language.
JURY OF THE 2026 IMMAGINA FESTIVAL
Through a dramaturgy fragmented into short, incisive scenes, the show leads the viewer into a timely and universal reflection: the conflict between doubt and duty. Thanks to an intelligent and poetic use of object theater, combined with the intense stage presence of performer-animator Thanos Sioris, the production transforms simple materials into powerful narrative devices.The result is a visual imagery in which humor becomes a critical tool, dismantling stereotypes tied to authority, restoring complexity and humanity to figures often reduced to mere symbols.
Alfonso Cipolla, Eolo online magazine