Created for PIP (Production Incanti Project) and performed as part of Incanti International Figure Theatre Festival, Turin, Italy, 2012.
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy-tales, Thingumajig Theatre worked for a month with 5 young adult theatre-makers to create this hour-long piece. With puppets, masks, acting, visual theatre and music each participant brought to life the essence of their chosen piece. Woven together with a Red Riding Hood motif, the piece took a quizzical look at how stories learnt at a parent’s knee prepare a child for the adult world.
The show opened Incanti 2012 to great acclaim from festival-goers and organisers alike.
- Learning to sculpt with cardboard
- Devising Hansel and Gretel
- Painting cardboard puppets
- Hansel and Gretel; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- Hans in Luck; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- The Musicians of Bremen; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- The Handless Maiden; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- Godfather Death; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- The musicians; photo by Shin Yamazawa
- The company; photo by Shin Yamazawa
Lead artists: Thingumajig Theatre directors Kathy and Andrew Kim
Participant artists: Francesco Picciotti (Italy), Brigid Vidler (Australia), Marco Ceccotti (Italy), Raffaella Gardon (France) and Zosia Stella-Sawicka (UK)
See photo gallery by Shin Yamazawa.