Pinocchio

In 1881, Carlo Collodi published his stories about the living wooden puppet, who so wanted to be a "real" person, in an Italian weekly newspaper under the title LE AVVENTURE DI PINOCCHIO (PINOCCHIO'S ADVENTURES). The author did not live to see the worldwide success that his novel, published in book form shortly afterwards, was to enjoy in the 20th century. However, the motifs and characters he invented are still familiar to (almost) every child today: the puppet theater that leads Pinocchio off the path on his way to school, the fox and tomcat who want to scam his money, the talking cricket, the fairy with the blue hair, the giant shark that has swallowed his father, the woodcarver Geppetto - and the nose that starts to grow uncontrollably when Pinocchio doesn't stick to the truth one hundred percent. This year's Christmas children's play about the brave outsider with the good heart is being staged by Benedikt Grubel, who is familiar to Freiburg audiences from productions such as KARLSSON VOM DACH, WIE DER WAHNSINN MIR DIE WELT ERKLÄRTE and OZ. Together with Michael Kaiser, he is developing his own version of the classic story. It traces the small and large philosophical questions that the brave wooden boy (and we) encounter on his way to becoming a man of flesh and blood. Information on group bookings, the Relaxed Performance, performances with interpreters for German Sign Language (DGS) and a summary of the play in plain language (after the premiere) can be found here: [www.theater.freiburg.de/kinderstueck]https://theater.freiburg.de//de_DE/junges-theater-info?