GERMANY: Marionettes "Little" and "Big" Giant stalk through streets of Berlin to finally meet at Brandenburg Gate

Record ID: 789689

  • Title: GERMANY: Marionettes "Little" and "Big" Giant stalk through streets of Berlin to finally meet at Brandenburg Gate
  • Date: 6th October 2009
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF LITTLE GIANT WAKING UP IN FRONT OF BERLIN DOME AND GETTING UP
  • Embargoed: 21st October 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVAD5VKBTU8STR49QKTV99OFNANO
  • Story Text: Waking up and taking a shower outside Berlin's Reichstag a "Little Giant" came to life on Saturday (October 3). The giant puppet of a young girl is visiting the German capital for a few days as part of some unusual of street theatre.
    Staged by the French theatre group Royal de Luxe, two giant marionettes will be stalking the city's streets in an interpretation of the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and German reunificiaton the following year.
    "Le Rendez-Vous de Berlin" - "Rendez-Vous in Berlin" is a piece of street theatre, where the little giant searches the city for her long-lost uncle the "Big Giant".
    Meanwhile, the 15-metre tall "Big Giant" is searching for his niece and hopes to use an underwater geyser to allow him to burst through the wall that divides them. On Saturday he got out of the water at the harbour next to the central train station and made his way to find his long-lost relative.
    The open-air theatre production took three years and cost 1.6 million euros to put on.
    This isn't the first time Royal de Luxe have staged such a large show. Their giant puppets have previously roamed the streets of the French town of Nantes. They have also brought their street theatre productions to London and staged a murder mystery with dummies in the windows of Berlin department store.
    The story of the Little and the Big Giant who were separated and are trying to find each other again is in the fairy tale tradition.
    But like all good fairy tales, the story will have a happy ending.
    On Saturday, the German national holiday which celebrates German unity since reunification, the two giants will finally meet up with each other in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate, where the city was once divided by the Berlin Wall.
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