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PRESS RELEASE (11/21/2013)
Sunday, November 24, at Loano, will kick off the review of sunday theater for families, organized by the I.SO Theatre with contributions from the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
Three shows in all, at free admission, which will be staged in the Loanese Cinema Theater. The review, dedicated to classic European fairy tales, will be opened on November 24 at 16.00, by “Hansel and Gretel-or the perfect trap.”, staged by the Teatrombria Company.
The show, which takes inspiration from the famous fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, uses mixed techniques: puppets, shadows, video and actors. The fascination of shadow theater will mix with the rarefied and sharp images of video projection, resulting in a new, ambivalent language. The rhythm will not leave a moment to breathe and will completely involve the audience.
At the center of the scene, in the heart of the forest, will be the gingerbread house, an image that will make the mouth water. An attractive and tempting image. But what is the danger of giving in to its temptation? One runs the risk of going from fear of starvation to fear of being devoured. But fortunately, cunning always wins out over wickedness...and the witch can be pushed into the oven and burned!
The review will continue, Sunday, December 1, always at 4 p.m., with the show Little Riding Hood Blues”, theatrical-musical reinterpretation, from the “wolves” point of view,“ of the fairy tale of ”Little Red Riding Hood.".
On stage are two actors in the guise of wandering wolf bluesmen, a little ragged and a little poet, who are on their way to Wolf City, to Wolf Pride, the gathering of wolves. As they are on their way, reminiscing about the good times, singing their favorite tunes: the wolf anthem, the sick grandmother's ballad, the hunter's blues. Everyone resents wolves only because they are always hungry: that's why they are outcasts. But it is time for redemption! It is time for the truth to be established. So the two wolves will tell the story in their own way. Who knows if this time the art of deception will bear fruit? Who knows how to quench this wolf hunger? The two actors will move between clownish gags, puns and transformation of objects, proving to be an irresistible comic couple. The songs in the show are original, sung and played live. All this is seasoned with a dash of magic, resulting in a very entertaining performance for children and adults alike.
The Mad Grass Theater will close the review by staging “Puss in Boots.” (December 8). The fairy tale, which belongs to the classic fairy tale cycle, will be staged using various techniques of open-face animated figure theater. After researching the magic of Chinese boxes, the show's construction intervention then followed a pictorial, musical and acting logic that echoes the period when Charles Perrault, the writer, composed the story. So it is that the actor will be a storyteller from another time, a carefree singer of Waltzes and nursery rhymes, while a cat, a foam rubber puppet, will get up to all sorts of mischief on top of an old ironing board repurposed as a traveling stage.
The other characters will jump out of little theaters that have Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as their setting. The upbeat and animated show will close with a final saraband where the audience will jump and dance in a grand cantar\animando.{:}
