La Compagnie s´Appelle Reviens: Pinocchio(live)#3
Aug 27 – 28, 2026
Aleksanterinkatu 16, 00170 Helsinki
No, you’re not dreaming – these really are children being transformed, one after another, into puppets. In the factory imagined by Alice Laloy, Collodi’s famous tale takes a very different turn.
Gone is the Blue Fairy who brings a wooden puppet to life; here, it is the living who are turned into inanimate, standardized objects.
Alice Laloy envisions a dystopian society in which children undergo a rite of passage through an assembly line. Step by step, adults shape them into perfect puppets.
Yet it is through their own will that the children rediscover movement, freeing themselves from the strings that animate them, until they achieve complete emancipation.
A stage performance by the French La Compagnie s´Appelle Reviens is designed for 22 performers, children and adults, and two teenage percussionists. The performance is the result of a photographic research project conducted by Alice Laloy between 2014 and 2018 entitled Pinocchio(s).
White Hall
27.8. & 28.8.2026
18.30-19.45
Tickets 49€, age recommendation 8+
