France – “Japanese Fairy Tales” by Chiara Guidi
Chiara Guidi has chosen three fairy tales of the ancient Japanese tradition to create a performance in which children take part. Some of them are invited by her on the stage to do a specific work, some others sitting in the stalls are stimulated through questions to a dialogue where the moral of the tale is cancelled in favour of a story created with them as a philosophical discussion.
In a contemporary and dreamlike scenography, close to shadow theatre, all the children are involved in the performance and guided by the narrator, they can experience the ‘laws’ of performing on stage just like they do with their plays, when they carry out with children of their own age the most profound ‘felling’ of reality.
From November 17 to 20, Japanese Fairy Tales is staged in Bobigny at the MC93 - Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis. On the afternoon of day 20, there is also a parent / child workshop to 'discover' the show.