COLORFUL TALES

A children performance loosely based on "Colorful tales" of Imants Ziedonis

Dramaturgy, staging, performing: Vita Malahova and Aude Lorrillard

External eye: Peter Gaidarov

Music: Aude Lorrillard

Duration: 50 minutes 

Genre: Puppet theatre and clowning

Recommended age: 5 to 10 years

Premiered in 2017 at Teatro Paravento (CH). 

Latvian premiere took place in 2020 at the Sansusī Festival (Latvia).

Thanks to the figure of the clown, a lovable, innocent, clumsy and nostalgic being, Vita Malahova and Aude Lorrillard bring on stage some of the "Colorful Tales" of the Latvian author Imants Ziedonis.

The story takes place in Miss B’s colorful library. She’s accompanied by her joyful, effervescent and clever Assistant. There is no reader in the library after the terrible frost of the terrible winter. In this empty space, only the colorful tales are enlivening the days of Miss B and her Assistant. Coming out of the colorful books, the tales reveal new and fantastic realities by delivering messages from their mysterious world.

"My name is Gray. It is because of me that other colors can stand out"

(The Grey Fairy Tale, Imants Ziedonis)