Theater groups from Italy and Taiwan are teaming up to perform Buchettino as part of this year’s Taipei Children’s Art Festival.
A festival favorite (it’s the fifth year that it has been performed), it is adapted from the fairy tale Thumbkin by Charles Perrault, the father of French children’s literature, but given an avant-garde touch with sound driving the performance.
The story is about a lumberjack and his wife who abandon their children in the forest because they are too poor to care for them. Deep in the forest, Buchettino finds a house and leads his brothers inside. But they aren’t going to get the kind of welcoming they were hoping for and have to use their wits to escape. For more information, visit the festival’s English and Chinese Web site at www.taipeicaf.org.
Photo courtesy of Taipei Children’s Art Festival
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■ Admission is NT$200
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