PRESS RELEASE (08/23/2016)
Wednesday, August 24, at 9:30 pm, in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena the Mad Grass Theater will present the show “The tin soldier”.
The evening of children's theater, at free admission, is part of the summer events promoted by the’Department of Tourism and Culture of the City of Loano and curated by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Luca Malvicini.
The theatrical version of Daniele Debernardi represents the somewhat absurd and unreal dimension of the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen through a set design featuring enormous objects in which the actor-narrator becomes the spirit of the toys, giving them voice and life.
The staging follows the entire original fairy tale without betraying the writer's vision. The characters—the toy soldier, the ballerina, the little devil in the magic box, the customs officer mouse, and the fish—are all present in the faithful retelling of the story.
The Mad Grass Theater, As always, it leaves only a small pleasant surprise at the end, which the audience will only discover by seeing the show.
The entire story takes place in a familiar setting, the bedroom, where objects are left to their own devices because it is nighttime and not playtime!
Here suddenly everything magically comes to life in a performance that repeatedly creates incredible twists and turns. In the eyes of the watching audience as if through a magnifying glass, that small world becomes big in the poetic image of a storyteller who makes everything come and go out of nothing.
Every night at midnight, when the twelve chimes mark the end of one day and the beginning of another, in the darkness of the children's room, toys become the protagonists and masters of an environment that is both fantastical and dreamlike.
It is soulless objects, used during the day by their little owners, that experience incredible adventures at night. In a parallel universe, unknown and unfathomable, stories of friendship, war, and love are born and burn out. There may even be journeys where mice and fish become enormous monsters in the eyes of a little tin soldier.
In such an enchanted world, it is always the children who decide the fate of their toys; they can be given away, lost, forgotten or... burned in the fireplace.
