El flautista de Hamelin

Version of the Brothers Grimm tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin, presented by Teatro Tyl Tyl at Teatro Fígaro in Madrid, directed by Daniel Lovecchio with a focus centred on children.

The proposal by Teatro Tyl Tyl takes as its starting point the well-known episode in which a musician rids a town of a plague of rats. When the inhabitants break their word and fail to pay him, the piper plays once more and it is the children who respond to his melody. Direction is by Daniel Lovecchio, who shifts the tale to a different perspective.

The performance pauses on a central question: whether what happened was revenge, justice or liberation. The focus shifts towards the children and what they perceive beyond the rules imposed by adults. The separation between the two worlds takes shape in the confinement of the little ones in a cave, the starting point for proposing an alternative ending to that of the traditional version.

Rather than a conventional adaptation, the production reflects on the place that art occupies in childhood and on the importance of listening to what children have to say. It is a show designed for a young audience that proposes Teatro Fígaro as a place for thinking together.