Tuesday, May 17 2024 at 11:00 a.m, Big Stage
The play is recommended for audiences over the age of 7
“Žar ptica” Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia
Authors: Jelena Kovačić i Anica Tomić
Director: Anica Tomić
Costume design: Doris Kristić
Stage design: Igor Vasiljev
Composer: Nenad Kovačić
Starring: Amanda Prenkaj, Gorana Marin, Domagoj Ivanković, Petar Atanasoski, Marko Hergešić and Bogdan Ilić
The project Little Frida was inspired by the childhood of the Mexican painter and one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo, who suffered from polio at the age of six and already as a little girl felt what it means to be different. Our seven-year-old Frida takes us to Mexico, to Casa Azul - the Kahlo family house. The year is 1914. Inside the blue walls of Azul, Frida is trying to strengthen her sick leg, which is why her peers shun her and call her Frida the Wooden Leg. She spends her days hanging out with her parents and animal friends the monkey Fulang Chang and the black cat Perdita, and her only human friend is the fictional girl Brisa. But Frida still fantasizes about real friends, but those who will not mock her and see in her only her illness. And then one day, a real boy, Pablo, enters her life, who will only know what it means to be a friend with Frida. Little Frida is a story about friendship that makes us better, determination that makes us fearless and imagination that makes everything possible. But above all, Mala Frida is a story about acceptance, of oneself and others. We hope that she will show how one girl, regardless of all the obstacles that life brings her, decided to step into it without fear and how precisely because of her courage she became the inimitable Frida Kahlo.