Gretel, Hansel and the others Festival d’Avignon Avignon Friday 8 July 2022
Gretel, Hansel and the others Avignon Festival, July 8, 2022, Avignon.
Gretel, Hansel and the others
from Friday July 8 to Monday July 11 at the Festival d’Avignon
Gretel and Hansel, like the salt, are gone. The whole country is gluttonous with sweets and that evening, after school, study and daycare, the sister and the brother did not return home, and, since then, everyone is looking for them: the family too busy is afraid, the police are investigating, the nanny is crying, at school and at the media library, we wonder and worry. Gretel and Hansel walk through the forest in search of a little salty house that could save the world from its gluttony, and face the greatest experiences of their young lives: emancipation, loneliness, the mystery of nature, fear and brotherly love. While no one had prepared them for such encounters, there suddenly arise in them and in their little village, through the twists and turns of life, real and imaginary characters populating the backstage of the too short time of lost childhood: Antoine the policeman, Madame Guillard, the cedar of Lebanon, the squirrel, the witch, the merchant of tears, the unicorn and the other… The story of the Brothers Grimm portrays with strangeness and depth a brother and a sister lost in the forest by their parents who later finds herself struggling with a witch. My adaptation will tell through this story the way in which we abandon children today, the fear of some to find the right path, the flight, the fear of growing up and giving up their dreams. She will also tell the story of others; of a policeman, of an investigation, of a village where the salt has disappeared, the story of a mysterious disappearance, in the night, on the way to a house that is a little too spicy. Always on the wire between dream and reality, the material that this one will offer will lend itself to my forms; it will allow this model and these little characters put into images, sound, sound effects, music to make the spectator travel, to engulf him in his imagination and the imagination of Hansel and Gretel, the imagination of the ‘Childhood, nature, dream and night.
Moya Krysa – Igor Mendjisky
Avignon Festival Chapel of the White Penitents, Avignon Avignon Champfleury-Eisenhower Vaucluse
Start and end dates and times (year – month – day – hour):
2022-07-08T15:00:00 2022-07-08T16:15:00;2022-07-09T11:00:00 2022-07-09T12:15:00;2022-07-09T15:00:00 2022-07 -09T16:15:00;2022-07-10T11:00:00 2022-07-10T12:15:00;2022-07-10T15:00:00 2022-07-10T16:15:00;2022-07-11T11 :00:00 2022-07-11T12:15:00;2022-07-11T15:00:00 2022-07-11T16:15:00