Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a clever “puppet-like” creature, unequivocally pursuing pleasures and ways to avoid the “unpleasant” and “boring” parts of life. At director Šarūnas Datenis’s prompting, he comes to life 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 intensified. And he is certainly not carved from wood: he is no wooden puppet, 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 overcome a long path strewn with dangers. After all, even we ourselves are often unsure 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 act according to the “right” plan... On this challenging journey of discovering the world, audiences will hear many original songs in an Š. Datenis production for the first time: sounds ranging from electronic music and non-poetic verse to jazz and hip-hop. In addition, for the first time, dramaturg Teklė Kavtaradzė has been invited to help substantially rework the text of C. Collodi’s classic fairy tale and adapt it to the present day.