Giraffe

 

IMGP5318I can’t remember what I was first, a money box or  a giraffe. People keep feeding me coins that i never seem to be able to digest. My nights are full of dreams. Sometimes i become a cuddly toy and someone puts their arms around me. Sometimes I’m in the forest, running in the midst of high treetops.

 

g4A money box in the shape of a giraffe changes hands and becomes alive in the minds of its different owners. Without it, a little boy would lose its only friend and, later on, a lover of the sky would never reach so high. Blending the animate with the inanimate, the story explores the life which exists in every object that carries emotions and sentiments. Through their relationship with the giraffe, our main characters connect with their ability to love, to befriend and dream on…

 

Cast

Script: Evgenia Tsichlia, Thanos Sioris

Direction: Evgenia Tsichlia, Thanos Sioris

Work on manipulation: Michel Villée_MG_6496 copy

Puppet and set construction: Thanos Sioris, Evgenia Tsichlia

Lighting consultants: Christina Thanasoula, Melina Mascha

Music: Agelos Agelidis, Antonis Skamnakis, Mihalis Kalkanis

Puppeteers: Thanos Sioris, Evgenia Tsichlia

 

 

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