Asdrubale comes back from the market with the piglets and leaves them in his pigsty. He asks Canzio to cook a pigswill to feed them. The pigs are starving and eager to eat and they knock against the door with their small hooves to ask for food. Asdrubale worries and raises his stick to them, but this does not pacify them. Canzio exits the kitchen with the pot to feed them. Two farmers are walking towards the pigsty with the food, but a loud noise is heard – the three piglets have opened the door and run away.

Glove-puppet

Marotte

Not specified

Nino Pozzo (Matteo Pozzo)

Italy

Verona

Handwritten outline

Hunger

Impatience

Ogre

Comical

Nino Pozzo, I tre porcellini (cover page)

Italian

Wolf

Peasant (man)

Mouse

Snake

Butterfly

Improvised dialogue

Blow-with-a-stick

I tre porcellini

The three little pigs

In his theatre, Mimmo is both an actor and a puppet showman. He is the boss of all the characters and can play all the roles: he plays the Harpo, an 'oggre' (ogre). But when he meets Lili, a "fragile and seductive" little puppet, everything falls into chaos. He wants to hold her, manipulate her as he pleases, and even eat her, and swallow her. She wants to escape, be able to move on her own, or even become human. Little Kouki, "the puppet’s puppet", wants the same thing, but Harpo and Mimmo prevent them from escaping. The dolls' bodies are abused, forced and violently injured. However, Harpo is finally unable to eat little Lili, even though his hunger makes him scream in pain. The scary ogre has fallen in love. The theatre becomes the backdrop for a fierce and hopeless love story.

Bare hand

Shadow theatre

Lemahieu Daniel

France

Paris

Bourg-en-Bresse

Electronic text

Woman

Wrestling

Love

Impossible love

Doll

Gender-based violence

Violence

Death

Murder

Manipulation

Poetry

Prosthesis

Tale

Fairy play

Noise

Hits

French

L'Ogre et la poupée

Polichinelle

Guignol

Avista

Splitting of the body

Engulfment

Allegory

Building a puppet on sight

Chase

Fight

Metadiscourse on puppet theatre

Disappearance

Childbirth on stage

Active stage directions

Shape shifting

Change of size on sight

Grammelot

Repetition of a word

L'Oggre et la poupée

The ogre and the doll