PINOCCHIO

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. He is known for his long nose, which grows whenever he lies — and in the telling staged in Bad Gandersheim, that detail becomes the heart of the story’s drama of misbehaviour and consequence. The puppet’s repeated failures to keep his promises keep the narrative moving, until his final transformation into a real boy.

Visitors following Pinocchio’s journey will see him get carried away by bad company and repeatedly land in trouble, just as Carlo Collodi’s original character does. The story is a classic and often comic lesson in honesty, wrapped in a fable that has been reimagined many times. This edition puts the focus squarely on the puppet’s imperfect, very human path to becoming real.