ESI and the Club Italia / EPO,
in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute
and the Consulate General of Italy, present

Teatro Gioco Vita in:

FROG
From the work of Max Velthuijs.

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Saturday 9 October 2010 – Ore 16.00:
Hilton Hotel – Apollolaan 138 – 1077BG AMSTERDAM
Admission for adults and children 6+: 5€
Reservations: 020 6265314 – email cannot be shown due to an error, please contact the site administrator, email in the footer.

Sunday 10 October 2010 – ore 16.00:
Sea Clear Teather – Trompstraat 342 – 2518 BT THE HAGUE
Admission for adults and children 6+: 8€ –
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Candid and naive, Frog looks at the world with his eyes always open, rather, open wide. Everything around him surprises him, it fills him with amazement, it intrigues him. Frog has many friends: Duck, a sweet and loving playmate; Porcellino, a placid lover of home and good food; Hare, an intellectual who always has an answer to everything; and Top, an adventurer as enterprising as he is generous. Together they face the big questions that little everyday dramas ask them. Frog and his friends always manage to find a positive answer to all these existential dilemmas. A blackbird found in the meadow is an opportunity to question the mystery of death and the need to celebrate the joy of being alive. The love sickness felt by Frog is the starting point to reflect on the pain and happiness that comes from it. A night fright makes an investigation into the subject of true fear and the fear of being afraid inevitable. With words and images of great strength and essentiality, the stories of Frog and his friends, thanks to a gentle humor, they comfort us and transmit a great desire to live. They do it talking about themselves but in doing this they also talk about us. Of us who are great and still don't always know how to accept ourselves but, also and above all, of those who must become great and measure themselves every day with the problems that their growth in the world entails. These little big-hearted stories are taken from Max Velthuijs' picture books, one of the most celebrated authors and illustrators for children in the world. His figures and words have been detached from their original context to make them live on the screen of the shadow theater, transformed with lightness and poetry into delicate animated stories.

(From the Company's website: Theater Game Life)