stories to eat
Two bizarre chefs, tired of cooking the same dishes over and over again, decide one day to start playing with food. Funny characters and unusual stories come to life on the kitchen table.
Two fairy tales from the European tradition, The Princess and the Pea and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or rather Snow White and the Seven Loaves…), are brought to life with fruit, vegetables, kitchen utensils, bread, flour and everything else needed for bread dough, and the children are led to look ‘with new eyes’ at the vegetables they see every day and sometimes don’t like to eat.
The audience witnesses the kneading of bread and the preparation of vegetables and fruit, physical actions that are matched to the story being told, using “object theatre” techniques.
By and with: Carla Taglietti e Valentina Turrini
Production: Le Strologhe
The Emilia-based company Le Strologhe, run by Carla Taglietti and Valentina Turrini, has been showcasing narrations, performances and theatre and figure theatre workshops for children and young people since 2005. The research is aimed at theatrical narration, the study of the oral tradition of fairy tales, songs, music, idioms and actions related to traditional festivities. At the same time, the company has explored figure theatre by experimenting with various techniques, including object theatre and shadow theatre.
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