Billie and Joe are penguins. Happy penguins at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. Like all penguins, Billie and Joe like to slide on blocks of ice, go fishing, and practice magic tricks. Like all penguins, the two tickle, smooch and cuddle in the spring during mating season. But Billie and Joe are the only penguins who have never laid an egg. On one of their walks through Central Park, they find an egg-shaped ball. They begin to hatch it.
"Not all parents are penguins" is a love story about being a parent, that questions what family can be.
The play was funded as part of the kicks! Festival grant "Neue Gruppen für ein junges Publikum" (New groups for young audiences). For the 2022 festival edition, the Blickfelder Festival is collaborating with the kicks! Festival.
Not all parents are penguins
Two mothers - one family model
Cie Pierre Caillou (CH)
- Wed 15.06. / 09:30 & 15:00 (with participatory art mediation programs)
- Thu 16.06. / 09:30 (with participatory art mediation programs)
- Sun 19.06. / 11:00 (with participatory art mediation programs)
Participatory art mediation programs:
Father, mother, child. Or two children. Sometimes a dog. And sometimes, but much less often than the dog, grandma is in the house too. Sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it? But what about having it be: Mother, mother, child? Or: mother, father, father, child? Or: Dad, daddy, child? Or: mother, mother, father, father, child, and a family friend?
Following the performance of "Not all parents are penguins", we playfully examine which family models we know and which ones we would like to try out. Outside the GZ Buchegg, we sit on big blankets and sort family members, exchange rituals and maybe even well-kept family secrets, take family photos - simply in constellations that we find good and that seem forward-looking to us.
Direction:
theater pedagogue Frederike Dengler & art mediator Anna Siradakis
Dates of participatory art mediation programs:
Wed 15 June / 10:30 & 16:00
Thu 16 June / 10:30
Sun 19 June / 12:00
Duration:
45 min
Credits
Director & author:
Aude Bourrier
Assistant director:
Charlotte Riondel
Dramaturgy & German translation:
Cléa Eden
Actresses:
Wave Bonardi, Alexandra Marcos, Julia Portier
Stage design:
Vanessa Vincente
Costume design:
Gloria Chappuis
Sound design:
Donatien Roustant
Light design:
Leo Garcia
Production and administration:
Christophe Delesques
Photo:
Kat Berger
