Following its UK tour last October, The WOW Show with Jude Kelly will open this year's WOW Athens Festival!

WOW Founder and award-winning theatre director Jude Kelly is coming to Athens to converse with three women about the difficult, and often daunting, journey towards gender equality. Jude will share the stage with Katerina Athanasiadou, Vanessa Veneti and Katerina Vrana, three amazing women who have challenged stereotypes and gone against the tide. At The WOW Show, they will share with the audience their personal stories, each one a source of inspiration and hope for change.

Katerina Athanasiadou, best known as “the grandma of Kypseli”, will recount how she undertook to raise little Maria to help out her mother Sandra, an immigrant from Ghana, focusing on the difficulties she’s facing in her struggle to adopt her and highlighting the power of female solidarity.

Trans activist Vanessa Veneti will share with the public the story of her legal battle to have the right to communicate with her daughter and will discuss transgender people’s parental rights.

Popular stand-up comedian Katerina Vrana will talk about how she refused to allow her unanticipated disability to limit her as a woman and as an artist, but managed to turn it into a source of strength, tapping into her sense of humour as her primary tool.