A performance for the whole family based on the fairy tale “Little King December” by German writer Axel Haacke, which is full of humour, wisdom and gentle melancholy.
Childhood is sometimes at the end of life. If you don’t believe me, you can ask little King December II himself. By the way, he’s no bigger than a gerbil and so vain… you can ask him about anything, and he likes to ask the most bizarre questions: why is the house angular? Why does it rain? Why does the cow give milk? Why does the cow give milk? Why is milk milk?… With him you can look at the stars and talk about immortality or give names to clouds. You can look at the boxes in which the king keeps his dreams. Or go out into the city and see things you’ve never seen before…
One day, King December appears from a narrow crevice in the bookshelf of an office worker and opens the door to a mysterious world of imagination and fantasy, enriched by the work and worldview of Rene Magritte. Rene Magritte is perhaps the most famous artist of the 20th century. Magritte is the most famous Belgian surrealist painter, known for his atmospheric and thought-provoking works. His main aim was to challenge the viewer’s preconceived notions of reality and to encourage a more sensitive view of the environment. In this artist’s eyes, nothing is ever quite as it seems, in the mundane everyday world where the ordinary is extraordinary.