Pinocchio créature ・ Comédie-Française

One the most translated and acclaimed Italian classics of all time, this extraordinary story by Carlo Collodi about a wooden puppet brought to life was just added to the Comédie-Française repertoire.

This “childish tale”, as the author liked to call it, has been a part of children and adults’ collective memory for 250 years. Director Sophie Bricaire, who works with Tiago Rodrigues, envisions this coming-of-age story as a tribute to love, particularly Gepetto’s love for the son miraculously coming into his life. She explained the story will be told through the old man’s perspective: “As a genius artisan, he is a powerful poetic and theatrical resource for whom creation is a wonderful path of emancipation and potentialities. Gepetto manages to create everything from nothingness; a mere piece of wood he picks up and carves becomes the starting point of an amazing adventure, a whirlwind of twists and turns, risks and disappointment, teaching the characters how to love in the process.”
Inan attempt to flee the poverty of the home he’s ashamed of, and in his eagerness to see the world, the young boy whose nose grows every time he tells a lie saves his friend Harlequin from a puppet show, and is in turn retrieved from the stomach of a shark by a protective fairy. The scenes all exude poetry and humour, and subtly tackle the themes of family, education, peer pressure and self-acceptance. The magic pertaining to theatre making is honoured in Gepetto’s workshop, a place of wonder where everything is possible.

NEW PRODUCTION

à partir de 8 ans

BOOKING OPENS ON
JAN 25

Creative team

Adapted and directed by : Sophie Bricaire
Scenography: Philippine Ordinaire
Costumes: Alex Costantino
Lighting: Jeanne Guillot
Sound: Mrs. Miniature
Scenography assistant: Nina Coulais

and the Académie de la Comédie-Française
Assistant director: Aristeo Tordesillas
Scenography assistant: Anaïs Levieil
Costume assistant: Aurélia Bonaque Ferrat
Sound assistant: Samuel Robineau

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