Pupi di Stac

       FEARLESS  JOHNNY

Production 1976

 

 

 

 

Puppet play by            Laura Poli

Scenes                         Massimo Mattioli                

Puppets                       Carlo Staccioli

Music                          Enrico Spinelli

With                            Fiorella Cappelli, Enrico Spinelli

Sources                      Ancient tuscan folk tales: Giovannino insenza paura (V.Imbriani "Novellaja" 1871); Al lupo, al lupo! (V.Imbriani Op.cit., V.Jacobilli); La Capra ferrata (G.Nerucci "Novelle Montalesi" 1891); Giovannin Senza Paura (A. de Gubernatis "Tradizioni..." 1896)

Technics                      Wooden puppets with legs, in the booth

During                         60 minutes

Age of audience         Children 6 -10 and all public

Languages (live)         Italian, French, Spanish (castelliano), English.

Available text and DVD of the performancein the series  "TheTheatre of Teatrino del Gallo" Libri Liberi editions 2009. From the show you can draw two independent one-act plays

With a true work of "contamination", the most famous novel,which gives the title to the work, have been linked to other less well-known fairy tales,  all very Tuscan,  including "Wolf Wolf" and "The horse-shoed goat." The show can thus offer an opportunity to reflect on the fears and terrors of childhood, encouraging children to identify them, express them and overcome them. Le play also shows various kinds of hypocritical and falsely gentle characters , behind which lurk the real pitfalls to watch out. The performance of the show is "Pupi di Stac classic" : live acting, dialogue with the public and direct intervention for children, live songs and musics, all seasoned with the usual irony. The show, produced in 1976, was represented in all the best Italian and European festivals.
They are therefore available versions (always recited live) in French, English, Spanish.