Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a clever, “puppet-like” creature, unequivocally in pursuit of pleasure and ways to avoid the “unpleasant” and “boring” parts of life. At director Šarūnas Datenis’s prompting, he comes into being not in the time of Carlo Collodi’s fairy tale, nor in the present day, but in the near future, where today’s problems of consumerism, automation and alienation have grown more acute. And he is certainly not carved from wood: he is no wooden boy, but an android assembled with the help of artificial intelligence. From the moment he is born, Pinocchio knows his rights and needs perfectly well, but to understand essential human things, he must travel a long road strewn with dangers. After all, it is often unclear to us, too, what it means to be a good person these days and, most importantly, how to become one. Despite our good intentions, we often fail to follow the “right” plan... On this challenging journey of discovering the world, audiences will hear many original songs in a Š. Datenis production for the first time: sounds of electronic music, non-poetic verse, jazz and hip-hop. In addition, for the first time, playwright Teklė Kavtaradzė has been invited to help substantially revise and adapt the text of C. Collodi’s classic fairy tale for today.