Il Piccolo Re dei Fiori (The Little King of Flowers) TEATRALIA

In 1995, the Czech artist and illustrator Květa Pacovská brought to light a beautiful illustrated story: Il Piccolo Re Dei Fiori (The Little King of Flowers)The tale has a classic structure, but here the king is small and curious, he lives alone, he tends his garden and fills his pockets with tulip bulbs… and he waits… and he also feels that something is missing.

Pacovská died in February last year at the age of 94. Two years earlier, two heavyweights of the Italian and European scene, Balletto di Roma and Teatro Gioco Vita, had made a theatre adaptation of this illustrated tale. The staging, brilliantly executed by two dancer-actors, fuses dance and shadow theatre, objects and large-format projections that recreate Pacovská's illustrations, whose plastic work is characterised by an expansive and generous use of colour. With very few words, but with a rich musical fabric, a story is brought to life that could be said to speak essentially, in a light and poetic way, of the search for happiness. With this work, Teatralia wants to pay tribute to what is undoubtedly one of the great references of contemporary children's literature.