"There's always something to hope for, boys," the Blue Fairy says to Pinocchio. And then she adds: "That's why I came all the way here looking for you." Thus, Collodi's Pinocchio amazes and moves us with every line. But what warms us most this time is not the wood in the fire but the colors and imagination of Gek Tessaro (Pinocchio, Lapis). With his illustrated theater, directed by Lella Marazzini, he ventures into the poetry of the great literary classic, reconstructing Pinocchio upside down to project it on the overhead projector, and ultimately telling us that things seen upside down are even better. Who knows what becomes of Pinocchio upside down: we'll only find out at the end of the story...
"There's always something to hope for, boys," the Blue Fairy says to Pinocchio. And then she adds: "That's why I came all the way here looking for you." Thus, Collodi's Pinocchio amazes and moves us with every line. But what warms us most this time is not the wood in the fire but the colors and imagination of Gek Tessaro (Pinocchio, Lapis). With his illustrated theater, directed by Lella Marazzini, he ventures into the poetry of the great literary classic, reconstructing Pinocchio upside down to project it on the overhead projector, and ultimately telling us that things seen upside down are even better. Who knows what becomes of Pinocchio upside down: we'll only find out at the end of the story...