People's university Dubrava
Zagreb, Croatia
RADISH STORY
(based on the folk tale «The Magic Radish»)

at the People's Centre Dubrava
Cerska 1
16. 04. at 19:00

Directed, adapted and dramatized by: Mario Kovač
Set and costume design: Ivana-Matija Bitanga
Music: Tomislav Babić
Puppet design: Vinka Krnić Markovinović
Performers: Sanja Sumrak, Ranko Stojić, Dina Đuka

duration: 35 min

recommended age 4-10 ys.

The Radish story is a non-verbal performance for children challenging family relationships adapted for the specific age of the spectators. A big radish represents a seemingly impossible task and a catalyst which brings together the whole family who have previously been fighting. Every day the world we're living in offers a thousand reasons why we should fight with someone or hate them, while we're pushing away from us all those precious feeelings we regard as old-fashioned and boring. Our environment defines our gender, generation and culture models we are supposed to follow and shape our lives in given patterns. This performance is an attempt to put away those patterns and to take this very life into our own hands and model it according to our wishes, disregarding what others think we should do.