Saturday 11 March the travelling event of “Where do cartoons live?” in regional preview
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” wrote the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943 in his novel “The Little Prince,” which would later become one of the most beloved and well-known fantasy stories in the world, not only by children but also by adults.
And this profound story that contains many reflections on the most important values of existence, will be staged in a regional preview by “Ma dove vivere i cartoni?” as part of the Family Experience project. Saturday 11 March in the prestigious park of the Reggia di Portici, right where numerous botanical species proliferate and the Bourbons played tennis, the traveling show “The Little Prince” will be held, promoted by the company “Ma dove vivere i cartoni” by Aurora Manuele.
The event is organized in synergy with Musa Reggia di Portici - Museum Center of Agricultural Sciences of the Federico II University of Naples, director Stefano Mazzoleni, which preserves and enhances the architectural and historical-artistic heritage of the sites in question, such as the Royal Site of Portici which was built by King Charles of Bourbon in 1738 as a royal summer residence and which bears the signature of great architects such as Vanvitelli and Fuga.
Through a rewriting of the classic story, by the artistic director Francesco Chiaiese, the journey in search of the meaning of life of the Little Prince will be staged, who meets an aviator, crashed in the Sahara desert, and asks him to draw a sheep. From here will begin the adventure that aims to return the child to the asteroid on which he lives, with bizarre characters such as the King and the rose.
The little participants and their parents will thus experience a traveling journey through the gardens of the Palace that will not only be an opportunity to spend time together and have fun with the protagonists of the story, but also a way to take an inner journey. The Little Prince, in fact, takes a journey in which he meets strange characters and is amazed by the "strangeness of adults": a story for children, in which fantasy explodes between planets and animated and non-animated characters, but which also represents a sort of "sentimental education" for adults.
For example, returning to the symbolic phrase of the novel "what is essential is invisible to the eyes", which makes us understand that we often think that what we see is reality, but it is only an illusion. To understand reality, the Little Prince teaches, we must listen to our emotions and sensations. That is, to look at the world through the eyes of children.
And trying to make adults look at the world through the eyes of children is a bit of the mission of “Ma dove vivere i cartoni?”, which since 2016 has been carrying out this Family Experience project that has a dual purpose: to unite families who, especially today, are increasingly broken up due to the frenetic pace and use of digital devices that often lead to isolation and to promote local tourism, that is, to enhance the sites closest to us, rather than those abroad, and to reveal many beauties of the Campania Region that are often little known.
The appointment with “The Little Prince” is for Saturday 18 March at the Reggia di Portici – via Università, 100. Portici (Na) – with a show every hour.
Opening hours: 10-11, 11-12, 12-13 15-16
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Article published on March 11, 2023 - 10pm
