Pippi is, if we look at her closely, a very average child. With her carrot-like hair, potato-shaped nose, freckles and extremely wide mouth she had all the predisposition to become frustrated and bitter. But Pippi has a lucky character trait that changes all disadvantages into advantages. From an ordinary girl she changes to an unusual one. From a lonely one to an independent one. From a weakling to the strongest in the world.
But above all she has managed surprisingly easy to retain the child-like genuineness and frankness in a world that tries really hard to mould children as soon as possible into generally accepted and conventional behaviour patterns. The magic of Pippi’s specialness is simply that she follows her impulses without any reservations. She simply walks on the path of realization of her own wishes without paying attention to the (adult) world where prohibitions and commands dictate the scope and direction of children’s wishes. However, in her wish to retain her own, unexchangeable identity, Pippi never threatens the identity of others, because she has a strong sense of fairness and social injustices. Pippi is, as she says herself, only a “turnupstuffer” who finds and wants to keep her world of games.
Only when faced with her playful spontaneity, the bourgeois world with its rules and conventions is disclosed in all its absurdity. And if we look closely, it actually becomes more unusual than Pippi, this cultivated world in which spontaneity and directness are considered unusual.
“Children should be seen, not heard,” says Annika’s and Tommy’s mother somewhere, and this is exactly what Pippi is rebelling against. She simply forces adults to exercise their ears when they meet her, despite the fact that adults – sometimes politely, sometimes less so – try everything to tame, or, to put it nicely, cultivate her. But during these encounters we see that the ridiculous ones are these very cultivated and very limited adults.
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Cast
Actors:
Janja Majzelj - Pippi
Janez Škof - Tommy
Boris Kos - Tommy
Mojca Partljič - Annika
Pavle Ravnohrib -
Željko Hrs -
Marko Mlačnik -
Ivan Rupnik -
Robert Prebil -
Uroš Maček -
Ravil Sultanov -
Nataša Sultanova -
Valerij Jeraj -
Breda Krumpak -
Boris Prevec -
Mitja Strašek -
Vlado Tot -
Silvo Zupančič -
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Assistant costume designer
Aleksandra Šaronjić
Author
Astrid Lindgren
Banjo
Silvo Zupančič
Dramaturg
Marinka Poštrak
Movement
Marko Mlačnik
Music
Igor Leonardi
String quartet
Valerij Jeraj
Štefan Marčec
Mitja Strašek
Vlado Tot
Accordion
Uroš Maček
Musicians on the recording
Nino de Gleria
David Jarh
Igor Leonardi
Aleš Rendla
Double bass
Ravil Sultanov
Costume designer
Alan Hranitelj
Language consultant
Mateja Dermelj
Light
Matjaž Brišar
Make-up
Barbara Pavlin
Adaptation
Andrej Rozman Doukštumf
Director
Vito Taufer
Cartoon
Samo Lapajne
Saxophone
Breda Krumpak
Set designer
Andrej Erjavec
Sound
Marijan Sajovic
Silvo Zupančič
Stage manager
Janez Pavlovčič
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