Animal Tales
Based on the motifs of Aesop’s fables
Text: Silvan Omerzu and Meta Brulec
Directed by: Silvan Omerzu
Puppet creation: Silvan Omerzu
Scenography: Silvan Omerzu
Original music: Vasko Atanasovski
Puppet realization: Silvan Omerzu and Žiga Lebar
Set Realization: Žiga Lebar
Costume design: Irena Jovanović
Text translation: Nebojša Pop Tasić
Illustration: Silvan Omerzu
Graphic design: Lazar Stanojević
Photographer: Lazar Stanojević
Cinematographer: Zoran Laki Lazarevic
Actors:
Fox, Narrator: Milica Redžić Vulević
Crow, Narrator: Nevena Brzaković/ Dubravka Brkić
Rooster, Rabbit, Narrator: Petar Lukić
Premiere: May 13, 2022.
Age: 3+
Duration: 35 min.
Director’s statement:
In ancient times, man used to coexist closely with animals, some of which he tamed, while others hunted him or were hunted by him. It is therefore understandable that animals appear in the oldest stories known to us. In many didactic narratives that have persisted to this day, animals are depicted as having human characteristics. We call these stories fables.
They were well-known in ancient Egypt and India, and in Europe they spread mainly under the influence of ancient Greece. Aesop, the most famous storyteller of all time, is said to have lived in Greece in the fifth century BC. It is said that he was from Frisia, that he was a slave, that he had a hump, a speech impediment, and that he was executed at Delphi for blasphemy.
Despite the lack of a solid proof that he ever existed, many different fables that have survived for 2,500 years in oral tradition, are attributed to him.
Fables have seen as many printed editions as few other books.
The fables of Aesop are typically succinct and amusing, communicating didactic ideas from ordinary life in straightforward language. Each fable has a brief lesson or moral. With irony and expressed doctrine, they point out people’s mistakes. Aesop imitated Indian and Greek fables. It has never seemed unusual to us that animals from fairy tales speak human language, so in a sense we might think of them as the originators of comics and cartoons. During the Age of Enlightenment, fables became a popular literary genre, which authors used to instruct and enlighten readers.
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