www.vlinders.be [email protected] ++ 32 476/33 84 03 Andersen in Red and Green. Andersen in Red and Green : nice to know - It are two fairy tales but performed not on the classical way - Figurentheater Vlinders & C° chooses for this performance a modern way of manipulation: stop motion puppets. - The prince and the princess are in both tales the same, in the original from Andersen they are not. - The prince loves green so he lives in a green world and castle. - The emperor and his daughter the princess prefer red so in their World everything has ‘something’ red. - So the performance is called: Andersen in Red and Green. - The prince and the princess have a servant, who serves them. The prince has a very joyfully optimistic servant. The princess has a reserved, rigid servant. Both servants are good friends, something our prince and princess don’t know. Special in the performance: both servants are acted by…the solo puppeteer. - The prince and the princess. - - The emperor and some princesses. - - The ladies in waiting About Andersen in Red and Green What happens when two world renowned figures players Dimitar Dimitrov (Bulgaria) and Ronny Aelbrecht (Belgium / Vlinders & C º) along step along into the magical world of the most famous Dane ever: Hans Christian Andersen? Then you will see two famous fairy tales of Andersen: The swineherd and the Princess on the Pea, merge into a story almost without words but with the same prince and princess! The solo puppeteer/servant serves this wonderful show for you in his world of red and green, supported by tingling music. Employees Andersen in Red and Green Idea/script/scenography: Dimitar Dimitrov/Ronny Aelbrecht. Based on : the swineherd and the princess and the pea. (Hans Christiaan Andersen). Actor/Puppeteer : Dimitar Dimitrov or Ronny Aelbrecht. Technic : Ronny Aelbrecht or Dimitar Dimitrov or Milly Jennes or Hans Daans Light design : Koen Dillien ( CC Ter Vesten) Puppets : Dimitar Dimitrov. Decor construction : Stefan Dimitrov Music: composition/arrangements/musicians : Thomas Nicolai, Nele Paelinck and Hans Daans (for the fat and drunken princesses). Studio:research/recording/mixing : Gino Waem. Studio : voices ladies in waiting: Nele Aelbrecht,Kelly Ooye Clarion : Etienne De Bock. Special thanks :CC Ter Vesten Beveren Province East Flanders Modecoupon Sint-Niklaas European project Puppet Nomad Academy Practical Technical Andersen in Red and Green Age : + 4 Duration: 55 minutes. This performance can be played with interval ( not necessary) Language: Can be played in ANY language. Only 12 words they will be studied by the puppeteer. Built up: 2 hours Break down: 45 minutes Minimum space: wide: 5,50 m x depth: 3,50 m x height: 2,00 m + 1,50 m black curtains on each side of the stage. Black horizon. Cargo: 215 kg. Hans Christiaan Anderesen ( 1805-1875) : Hans Christian Andersen had humble beginnings. He was born in a one-room house in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805. His father was a shoemaker and his mother had been a washerwoman in the houses of the rich before she married Hans' father. A strongly defined class society and a restrictive system of artisan's guilds kept Mr. Andersen senior working at the lowest financial level of his trade in the city. As a "frimester", he belonged to the lowest class of artisans, not allowed into the guilds nor to employ anyone as an assistant. As for the facts about his family, Hans Christian wrote much about them in his "Mit Livs Eventyr", an autobiography. His life story has to be read with a grain of salt because it tends to romanticize and exaggerate in the way his fairy tales would. Researchers have dug up many inaccuracies in his life story. He completely left his half sister Anne-Marie out of it. His mother had three illegitimate children before marrying Hans senior. Anne-Marie was six years older than Hans Christian and lived with his maternal grandmother. She shows up in "The Red Shoes" and "The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf" but in the real world he chose to hide the fact that he had a sister.His father died when Hans was only eleven years old. Young Hans was wasting his time in school, daydreaming about the theater and the stories he would imagine. His mother sent him to work in a tailor's shop and later a tobacco factory to help support the family. Unhappy with these jobs, he left home at the age of fourteen to seek his fortune in Copenhagen. He nearly starved to death trying to earn a living as an artist, actor, dancer and singer. Andersen befriended a theater director who helped him get a scholarship and return to school. Chancellor Jonas Collin, a director of the Royal Theater, noticed Andersen when he was 17. Collin had read one of Hans' plays and saw that the young man had talent. Collin was able to obtain money from the king for Andersen's education. He sent him to a school near Copenhagen where his teacher treated him harshly and teased him about his desire to become a writer. Collin eventually took Hans out of the school and arranged private tutoring in Copenhagen. In 1828, at age 23, Andersen entered university in Copenhagen. Andersen began to be published in Denmark in 1829. In 1833 the king gave him travel money and he spent 16 months travelling through Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. He always brought a rope along as a fire escape, because he was afraid of fire. As Andersen traveled he wrote many books about his experiences. Andersen wrote plays, novels, poems and travel books. A Poet's Bazaar (1842) and In Sweden (1851) are probably his best known travel books. He wrote one autobiography titled The Fairy Tale of My Life (1855). He wrote three different books about his own life. Some of his plays were big hits in Denmark and Danish children still sing some of his poems set to music. He was surprised that his fairy tales were so popular at home and even abroad. Andersen published 'Fairy Tales for Children' in 1835. These four short stories were written for little Ida Thiele, the daughter of the secretary of the Academy of Art. The public, both adults and children, wanted more. Hans Christian Andersen considered himself ugly all his life. He was tall and thin with a long nose. It was this self-view that inspired "The Ugly Duckling". Andersen proposed to several women during his life and was rejected by all of them. In spite of his lonely life he was able to create some of the most wonderful stories ever written. Andersen died on Aug.4, 1875. Although the official count of stories is 156, and all of them have been translated, many are not familiar to the Danes and relatively few are known outside of Denmark. His best known stories were published between 1835 and 1850. Some are his own creations and others are his re-telling of previously known Danish folk tales. The following are his best known and loved tales: The Tinder Box, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Princess and The Pea, Little Ida's Flowers, Thumbelina, The Travelling Companion, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Wild Swans, The Garden of Eden, The Flying Trunk, The Storks, Willie Winkie, The Swineherd, The Buckwheat, The Nightingale, The Top and The Ball, The Ugly Duckling, The Fir Tree, The Snow Queen, The Darning Needle, The Elf Hill, The Red Shoes, The Shepherdess and The Chimney-Sweep, The Little Match Girl, The Shadow, The Old House, The Happy Family and The Shirt Collar. The Swineherd There was once a poor Prince. He possessed a kingdom which, though small, was yet large enough for him to marry on, and married he wished to be. Now it was certainly a little audacious of him to venture to say to the Emperor's daughter, 'Will you marry me?' But he did venture to say so, for his name was known far and wide. There were hundreds of princesses who would gladly have said 'Yes,' but would she say the same? Well, we shall see. On the grave of the Prince's father grew a rose-tree, a very beautiful rose-tree. It only bloomed every five years, and then bore but a single rose, but oh, such a rose! Its scent was so sweet that when you smelt it you forgot all your cares and troubles. And he had also a nightingale which could sing as if all the beautiful melodies in the world were shut up in its little throat. This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her. The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing 'Here comes a duke a-riding' with her ladies-in-waiting. And when she caught sight of the big caskets which contained the presents, she clapped her hands for joy. 'If only it were a little pussy cat!' she said. But the rose-tree with the beautiful rose came out. 'But how prettily it is made!' said all the ladies-in-waiting. 'It is more than pretty,' said the Emperor, 'it is charming!' But the Princess felt it, and then she almost began to cry. 'Ugh! Papa,' she said, 'it is not artificial, it is REAL!' 'Ugh!' said all the ladies-in-waiting, 'it is real!' 'Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be angry,' thought the Emperor, and there came out the nightingale.