After an interruption due to the pandemic, the 5th Pikku Aasi International Puppet Theater Festival is held in Vaasa, organized by the Pikku Aasin Puppet Theater in collaboration with Vaasa Cultural Center and Suomen UNIMA Finland.
Five puppet theatre groups have been invited to perform in Vaasa, including Vittorio Zanella's and Rita Pasqualini’s Teatrino dell’Es, who will presents the new work Puppets on a Trampoline, expressly created for this occasion and staged with the collaboration by the Pikku Aasin Nukketeatteri.
The themes appearing in the play are: Circus, Friendship and Environment. The presentation is in a language that is easy for everyone to understand – as the narrator is Pulcinella. The performance mainly uses the original music composed by Vittorio Zanella and inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, adding a few key words... (Finnish and Swedish, as well as the Neapolitan dialect).
The performance is staged on October 29 at 04:00 pm and on October 30 at 10:00 am.

Moreover, on October 28 (3 pm to 4:30 pm), Vittorio Zanella will lead the free workshop "My puppet". Everyone is welcome to make their puppet out of recycled material. The construction time is approximately 15 minutes.
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