Frederick - Premiere

FREDERICK
Based on the book by Leo Lionni
Theatre for young children aged three and up

With Valeria Prautsch or Alexandra Stölzl
Directed by Fabian Eberhardt
Costumes by Stephanie Krey
Dramaturgy by Ella Elia Anschein

Winter is coming. All the field mice work day and night - gathering grain and nuts, wheat and straw. All except Frederick. He collects sunbeams, colours and words - his own kind of provisions for the cold, grey and long winter days. But this puts him at odds with the others. They think he is lazy and wonder what he will eat when winter arrives. Will he let that get to him?

"The wonder I feel when I lie in the grass and observe a vast world in miniature - where blades of grass are giant sequoias and a beetle is a charging rhinoceros - is the same as when I was a little boy." - Leo Lionni

LEO LIONNI was born in Amsterdam in 1910 and died in Italy in 1999. He was an American graphic designer, painter and author who spent many years living in Italy. From childhood, Lionni had a deep love of nature, and his observations shine through his picture books, of which he said: "Of all the things I have done in my life, few have given me as much deep satisfaction as my children's books."