What if it turns out differently? Fairy tales between text, performance, and puppetry

Time

18:00 - 20:00 o'clock

Organizer

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Exzellenzcluster „Imaginamics“

Place

Imaginamics Lab

Adresse

Zwätzengasse 3

The enchanted forest, the big bad wolf, the wicked witch, the gingerbread house—we all have images from fairy tales in our minds. But where do these ideas come from? And what happens when we retell them?

This evening, the Imaginamics Cluster of Excellence : Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagination invites you to turn fairy tales into a testing ground. Together with Theater Waidspeicher and puppeteers from Erfurt, we’ll take a closer look at typical fairy tale scenes and characters—and dare to retell them in new ways.

The evening unfolds as an alternation between conversation and puppetry. The audience helps shape the discussion as we explore questions such as: What defines our ideas about fairy tales, and where do they come from? Are fairy tales still relevant today? And at what point does a fairy tale cease to be a fairy tale?

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