Pinocchio créature

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

BOOKING OPENS ON
JAN 25