Text after J. and W. Grimm: Pavel Polak
Translation: Majda Potrata
Director: Pavel Polak
Set and puppets made by: Jaroslav Milfajt
Music: Vitezslav Hadl
Languahe advisor: Mateja Dermelj
Actors: Tina Potočnik in Marko Plantan
Puppet and theatre performance for chlidren from 3 years up Duration: 40 minutes
Opening performance: October 2002, performance re-newed 2009
Festivals and tours: Austria, Italy, Slovenia
This performance was created for our youngest spectators. The adaptation of the well known Grimm's fairy tale was done in co-operation with prominent Czech artists: Pavel Polak, a freelance artist and former director and art manager of the Czech theatre Naivni Divadlo Liberec; Jaroslav Milfajt, set and puppet designer working with most of the Czech theatres; and Vitezslav Hadl, a popular Czech composer who, among other, works a lot for film and television. Polak's Tom Thumb represents a variation based upon motives from a classical fairy tale about a little boy with a great heart.
This is a story about a couple with no children. They finally get a child, a little boy who is no bigger than a thumb, so they name him Tom Thumb. The boy is strong and he can help his father in ploughing. They are very poor, so Tom Thumb convinces his father to sell him to the King. The King, however, gives Tom Thumb as a present to the Princess who treats him very badly. So, Tom Thumb decides to run away. On his way he meets two brigands who are planning to rob the King's treasury. Tom Thumb is brave enough to chase the two bandits away. The King is grateful and he grants Tom Thumb the permission to return to his parents.
