Djecje kazaliste Branka Mihaljevica
Osijek, Croatia

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

at the Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Travno Hall
10.04. at 19:00

Author: Astrid Lindgren
Dramaturgy and directed by: Zlatko Sviben
Composer: Darko Hajsek
Set and Costume design: Iva Matija Bitanga i Leo Vukelic
Associate for stage movement: Damir Klemenic
Associate for stage speech: Alma Vancura
Lighting design: Ivo Nizic
Tone design: Dražen Golubic
Assistant director: Mladen Vujcic
Performed by: Marija Kolb, Petar Konkoj, Mladen Vujcic, Areta Curkovic, Inga Saric, Djordje Dukic, Lidija Helajz, Snjezana Ivkovic, Tihomir Grljusic, Aleksandra Colnaric, Zvjezdana Bucanin, Ivan Lucic
Duration: 80 min.
Recommended age: 7+

Pippi Longstocking was created by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren in 1945. Like many great things, the story about little Pippi was almost a coincidence – the writer's daughter Karin got sick and was bored in her bed. She asked her mom to tell her a story. The girl wished for the character in the story to be named Pippi Longstocking. Astrid Lindgren concluded that a girl of such an unusual name has to be unusual with everything else as well.

If we take a better look at Pippi, what we are looking at is in fact just a very average child. With her carrot-coloured hair, her potato-shaped nose and extraordinary big lips she has all the predispositions of becoming a frustrated, bitter person. Her character traits, though, help her turn all her drawbacks into virtues. From an average girl she is turned into an unusual girl. From a lonely into an independent one. From a weak one into the strongest in the whole world.