Teatro dei Fauni

Paper garden

Ecological tale with singing characters built with paper and PET

• Text, music and animation Vicky De Stefanis
  Diretor Santuzza Oberholzer
  Music director Oskar Boldre
  Lights Luigi Sala

• The world is a peaceful garden. The animals: the little caterpillars, the sheep and a shepherd live happily, only the heron troubles putting his nest in the wrong place.
  This peace is ruined by the evil Pet, who pollutes the water with his intrusive buildings. The animals with the help of the shepherd will fight together in order to restore the lost harmony.
  Play almost without text, the characters communicate with sounds and songs.

• Testo completo

  This show was conceived to be readable at different levels and is accessible also to children at their first encounter with puppetry theatre.
  It's the story of a happy garden with animals and a shepherd, sketchily designed, who go about their business around a pond. The caterpillar is picking up flower seeds, the nymph is washing her clothes in the stream, the heron is building his new nest and the shepherd is bringing the sheep to trench their thirst. These daily activities become very funny when executed by paper characters with their expressive voices and noises performed live.
  The peace is interrupted by an arrogant character who transforms the garden by killing the flowers, polluting the water and invading the life space of the lovely little inhabitants. They thus try to oppose his abuse, but without success.
  Through this linear script, which is mainly based on scenic games of movement, one introduces the theme of nature preservation and of the protection of one's own life space. Even the youngest children have a sense of justice who is awakened by their identification with the animals: their survival is endangered by the new constructions.
  The small garden community will eventually succeed and transform the polluted landscape back into a playful garden.
  The characters, which are made of recycled material, are also very easy to build. The concept was developed through three years of construction and animation workshops of puppets, with children.
  Starting from a playful routine, the audience is led to explore new frontiers with their senses, with the mind and with their hearts.

• Scheda tecnica

  Spazio scenico minimo m 3 x 3,5