PRESS RELEASE (08/30/2016)
Wednesday, August 31, at Loano, at 9:30 pm, in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena, The children's theater festival, promoted by the’Department of Tourism and Culture of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Luca Malvicini.
La Erba Matta Theater Company will greet the young audience in Loano with the show “Puss in Boots”.
This fairy tale, which belongs to the cycle of classic fairy tales, will be staged using various techniques of open-face animated figure theater, by an actor who brings the show to life. After researching the magic of Chinese boxes, the construction of the show followed a pictorial, musical, and acting logic that echoes the period in which Charles Perrault, the writer, composed the story.
The actor becomes a storyteller from another era, a carefree singer of waltzes and nursery rhymes, while a cat, a foam puppet, gets up to all sorts of mischief on top of an old ironing board converted into a traveling stage.
Other characters jump out of theaters that have Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as their setting.
Small terracotta figures in the colorful wooden structures move operated by wires that give space and life to the fairy tale.
The show is cheerful and lively, ending with a final sarabande where the audience jumps and dances along to lively singing.
Admission is free.
