A promise is a promise!
Almost one year after the Company’s thrilling Moscow experience – Obraztsov, tema e variazioni presented at the Festival of the General Academic State Puppet Theatre, named after Sergey Obraztsov – Alessandro Libertini has finally completed the construction of a puppet to present to the museum with the same name as the theatre.  On the occasion of the festival, museum director Boris P. Goldovsky had expressed the desire to have a puppet by the highly esteemed Tuscan company to place alongside those of his collection.  Beneath the deep, watchful eyes of Sergey Obraztsov, whose portrait hangs in his workshop, Libertini cut and sewed fabrics and materials, creating a puppet that seems endowed gifted with life and a soul.

During an evening organized by  the Accademia della Crusca of Florence and dedicated to the world-renowned puppet Pinocchio, Piccoli Principi have presented “With Pinocchio’s eyes” in Villa “Il bel riposo” where Carlo Collodi, between 1881 and 1883, wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Romania, V edition of the International Festival of Theatre  "100, 1.000, 1.000.000 stories ". At the Nottara Theatre of Bucarest has been represented “Ba Ba”,  written and directed by Alessandro Libertini and Véronique Nah, a show inspired by the wonderful work of the visual artist Giorgio Brogi, with David Batignani and Véronique Nah. This year, 12 theatre companies from abroad (Canada, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Sweeden, The Republic of Moldova, Bulgaria, Greece) and 4 from Romania (Bucureşti, Craiova, Gheorghieni and Piatra Neamţ) have presented their most representative performances within the Festival.
The Members of the Jury were: Doina Modola (Theatre Critic, IATC member, university professor dr. at the Music Academy Gheorghe Dima, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Michel Dieuaide (Artistic Manager of the "Biennale du Théâtre Jeunne Publics", Lyon, France); Michel Caessteker (Manager of the City Cultural Centres, Limoges, France) decided to award 2 prizes to Compagnia Piccoli Principi: “Ba Ba” received the The Super-Bebe award, for best performance for children aged between 0 and 3 years old and the Best Acting Award went to Véronique Nah, for the performance Ba Ba, ex aequo to the actress Tamara Karpova , for the performance Mignone, Mr. Pejo's Wondering Dolls Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Felicitări Veronica!

Journey to the centre…of the Centre is the title of the new production of Piccoli Principi, in collaboration with the Pecci Centre's didactic section, presented in November and December at the Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Centre, near Florence. The project is a new and funny way for children and adults to approach contemporary art. (Photo of Antonella Iannella)