Have you ever wondered how an earthworm can hear without ears? Did you know that a sloth comes down from a tree just to poop?

Would you believe that crocodile hatchlings sleep in their mother’s mouth, protected by its sharp teeth? And that a dinosaur’s closest living relative is a chicken? And that man is also an animal?

LONG LIVE THE ANIMALS! answers your questions with wild facts, heartfelt humour and multi-faceted animal doll characters. It is a puppet theatre performance for the whole family that combines art and science. Its premise is animals – the admired, feared, ordinarily strange ones – and their lives. And humans, wondering.

WORKING GROUP
Concept, script, visual design, and construction: Nanna Mäkinen and Pia Kalenius
Lighting design: Jarkko Forsman
Music and sound design: Working group
Dramaturgy and directing mentor: Venla Luoma
Puppeteering mentor: Lotta Virtanen
Performers: Nanna Mäkinen ja Pia Kalenius
As the voice of Sir David Attenborough: Jussi Virkkumaa
Graphic design: Mia Koo
Production: Tehdas Theatre, Turku (premiere 7 March 2024)
Partners: Aura of Puppets and the children of Pääskynpesä daycare

Target audience: 5+
Duration: 40 mins.