Dates:
Thu, 27 Aug 2026, 18:30–19:45
Fri, 28 Aug 2026, 18:30–19:45
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+
Cost: 49€
Bookings: Booking information is available from the event source.
Categories: theatre (art forms), cultural events, children (age groups), puppet theatres
Source: Event information supplied by Linked Events Helsinki API, maintained by the City of Helsinki Executive Office, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
