Once he was a tree. Now he must live as a human being:
His legs allow him to move from point to point. He can look at you with his eyes. By using his mouth, he can generate sounds to make contact. But inside there is only hunger.
Now he has to work.
We see the famous wooden cyborg as a contemporary figure trying to grow up in an abundance of choice. Despite this boundlessness, he doesn’t find fulfillment anywhere. Outside the reality of the unwieldy body with which he drags himself, everything seems liquid or fleeting. And even his own body is uncontrollable.
Pinokkio is a light performance about physicality, the search for freedom and growing up, inspired by Carlo Collodi’s book of the same name from 1883.
Choose your battles