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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Hansel and Gretel

A theatre journey

PREMIERE

28. november 2020
SNG Nova Gorica, on-line

Hansel and Gretel is one of the best known European fairy tales. It is tremendously, unbelievably cruel, but we see it as a metaphor of human coming of age – a person’s paths through vital situations and the changes one has to confront to survive. On the symbolic level, growing up is filled with such situations. Hansel and Gretel thus leave on their journey as children and return as young adults. This journey has marked and changed them. It has changed not only them but also their surroundings – the home they return to is now free of evil. It has died out by itself. Their transformation from weak children into strong individuals has made them more powerful than the evil, making it disappear.

 

What we’re interested in when staging this old, perhaps even outdated tale is its charge of a “journey”. It makes the protagonist “shape” themselves, and change. When they return, nothing is the same – neither they nor their world.

 

The characters in this production for children in preschool and the first triad of primary school don't speak, because we all know the story already. This special characteristic leaves more space for the actors’ bodies, movement, music and visual image. The production is directed by Andrej Jus, who successfully staged The Bitter Fruits of Justice, which inaugurated the SNG Nova Gorica Small Stage, and the poetry concert Become a Street Lamp (Srečko Kosovel).

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Awards

  • uvrstitev predstave v katalog kakovostnih predstav za otroke in mladino Zlata paličica

Festivals and performances abroad

  • 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey, 2022

28. 11. 2020, 18.00. SPLET.

31. 12. 2020, 11.00. SPLET.

3. 4. 2021, 10.30. splet.

18. 6. 2021, 17.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

18. 6. 2021, 19.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

20. 4. 2022, 18.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

26. 4. 2022, 10.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

26. 4. 2022, 13.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

27. 4. 2022, 10.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

27. 4. 2022, 13.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

28. 4. 2022, 10.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

28. 4. 2022, 13.00. 17th Little Ladies Little Gentlemen International Children's Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey.

6. 10. 2022, 10.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

8. 10. 2022, 15.00. SNG Drama Ljubljana.

8. 10. 2022, 18.00. SNG Drama Ljubljana.

17. 10. 2022, 10.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

10. 3. 2023, 18.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

12. 3. 2023, 17.00. Cankarjev dom Ljubljana.

14. 3. 2023, 13.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

12. 9. 2023, 9.30. 34. Pikin festival Velenje.

12. 9. 2023, 11.30. 34. Pikin festival Velenje.

28. 9. 2023, 18.00. Kulturni dom Krško.

2. 10. 2023, 10.00. SNG Nova Gorica.

7. 10. 2023, 10.00. Kosovelov dom Sežana.

2. 11. 2023, 18.00. INK - Gradsko kazalište Pula, Hrvaška.

3. 11. 2023, 9.30. INK - Gradsko kazalište Pula, Hrvaška.

3. 11. 2023, 11.00. INK - Gradsko kazalište Pula, Hrvaška.

 

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