Pupi & Pini - Street theater review

Pupi & Pini in Liganano: A festival of street and figure theater that has been accompanying the holidays of thousands of tourists for 30 years who choose the golden sands and pine forests of Lignano Sabbiadoro. This year on the occasion of the 30th edition, the location will again be the Hemingway park.
It is the Puppet Theater game, its being one and double, its magical strength of being able to create with poor materials, a few pieces of fabric and wood, foam rubber, clay and gauze, inanimate creatures that surprisingly take the scene and become the protagonists, almost annulling the human being who gives them life. It is the game of Theater that multiplies, that looks at itself in the mirror, that enters and exits a non-daily reality to access the world of Art in its purity and essentiality.
It is the game between actor and spectator, where the viewer is nourished by the beauty and freedom of the imagination; if there is a puppet, the game is created between the man-spectator and the animated puppet.
 

Summer 2024 programming

It is possible to download the complete programming in the area below in the download section.

Wednesday 10 July 2024, 9.30 pm

Streets of the center of Sabbiadoro
Bianche Presenze: street parade on stilts organized by the Creative Academy of Bastia Umbra (PG).
White ethereal butterflies dance elegantly accompanied by original luminous stilts, fairy characters that spread light and beauty.

Wednesday 17 July 2024, 9.30 pm

Hemingway Park
Panta Rei (from Mussolente -VI) presents The Jungle Book, an actor and puppet theater show (recommended for ages 4 and up).
With a particular technique of interaction between theater and live digital image, it offers an unprecedented and privileged look into Kipling's novel, a fable about humanity and a hymn to difference.
Text by Barbara Scalco. Directed by Paolo Bergamo. With: Matilde Sgarbossa, Davide Lazzaretto, Marco Mattiazzo and Davide Stocchero.
Winner of the 2023 Otello Sarzi National Award

Wednesday 24 July 2024, 9.30 pm

Piazzetta Del Sole
The AIDA Foundation, of Verona, presents Le Sorelle Van Stories, an actor's theater show by Alice Canovi and Matteo Mirandola. Directorial adaptation by Lucia Messina. With Alice Canovi and Annachiara Zanoli.
Two wandering and slightly bizarre sisters arrive in the city in their van, singing loudly and dragging a huge suitcase. They thus attract the attention of the public, to offer a rare and more than precious commodity: fairy tales!

Monday 29 July 2024, 9.30 pm

Hemingway Park

Mascheraviva Italia presents Altolivello, a show of transformism and illusionism on stilts.
Great visual impact and rare elegance in a wordless show, all marked by the charm of figuration, seasoned with a splash of comedy and lightness.
Concept, costumes and direction by Luigi Sicuranza. With Pietro Rasoti and Miriam Calautti.

Monday 5 August 2024, 9.00 pm

Hemingway Park

Catalyst (Florence) presents Oh! The Book that makes Sounds, circus theater show.
By and with Daniele Giangreco and Edoardo Nardin.
The book is the true protagonist of the show and becomes the subject of the scene: it can be read but it can also be inhabited, played, listened to, transformed, illuminated, thrown, broken. What if this game came out of the book?
Loosely inspired by “OH! The book that makes sounds” by Hervé Tullet.

Wednesday 7 August 2024, 7.00 pm and 9.00 pm

Municipal Library

Divisoperzero / Florian Teatro present Officina Prometeo, theater of objects. By and with Francesco Picciotti.
A puppeteer-narrator-craftsman gives voice to the protagonists of the myth, combining commonly used objects. Prometheus, commissioned by Zeus to populate the earth, the skies and the seas with beings of all kinds, uses all his ingenuity and inventiveness to "assemble" a great variety of creatures, finishing his work by creating the human being.

Recommended for children from 5 years old
The show will be held at 7.00 pm and 9.00 pm
Free entry with reservation: Tel. 0431 409160 - E-mail: biblio@lignano.org

Monday 12 August 2024, 6.00 pm, 7.30 pm and 9.00 pm

Municipal Library

The Teatro Telaio of Brescia presents Arcipelago, interactive installations curated by Angelo Facchetti and Francesca Franzè.
Performer Mariasole Dell'Aversana.
An evocative installation, where, in a large space, children can explore a bright archipelago, made up of particular islands.
Recommended for children aged 6 to 10 years.
Show winner of the 2023 Eolo Award as best project.

The show will be held at 6.00pm - 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Free entry with reservation: Tel. 0431 409160 - E-mail: biblio@lignano.org

Tuesday 13 August 2024, 9.00 pm

Hemingway Park

At the Incirco Teatro in Faenza he presents Pu-Pazzi d'Amore, a puppet theater show. By and with Gianluca Palma.
Stories of tragicomic love in pastel tones, told with the innocence and lightness of inanimate objects. Marionettes, marionettes and puppets venture into surreal, funny, grotesque and, at times, poetic paintings.

Wednesday 21 August 2024, 8.00 pm

Trieste seafront

One evening, eight shows on the Sabbiadoro seafront:
- The kidnapping of Prince Charles (by and with Mauro and Andrea Monticelli - Teatro del Drago) - traditional puppet show.
- Musical duo Francesco Maestri and Anna De Leo: Banda Vinaccia.
- Carletto and the Golden Egg (by and with Mariasole Brusa) - puppet show.
- Stories hanging by a thread (by and with Gianluca Palma) - string puppet show.
- La Route (by and with Erika Salamone) - circus and clown show.
- The misadventures of Pippogrifo (by and with Esther Grigoli) - puppet show.
- The Adventures in the Chicken Coop (by and with Maurizio and Cesare Corniani - Corniani Theater Company) - show of visually animated puppets.
- JF's Street Theater (by and with Gianfranco Vinci).

Monday 26 August 2024, 9.00 pm

Hemingway Park

Terzostudio Ponte a Egola (PI) presents Pindarico, a show of transformism and illusionism on stilts.
Directed by Italo Pecoretti. By and with Miriam Colautti and Pietro Rasoti.
The free and visionary journey that an now old aviator takes on the thread of memories. An adventure experienced in youth, or perhaps in the fairy-tale dimension of a daydream. As in a magic lantern, thanks to the evocative power of music and images, we enter a world of extraordinary creatures and unlikely encounters.