What if boredom is the beginning of an adventure? What if playing is the key to freedom? You learn it from Papillon, the butterfly, who always finds freedom. The escape king is in town! But nobody knows it. Except you and the other children on the playground.
Frans Van der Aa and a choir of 8 to 88 years old occupy a piece of the city. With a distant wink to the world-famous book by Henri Charrière — about the escape king with a butterfly tattoo — Papillon sings, sounds, and tells about playing together, learning to be bored, and secretly escaping.
Papillon brings young and old together, on stage and in the audience. Children recognize the game, adults perhaps recognize what they once lost. It is an invitation to look again, to listen, and to let yourself be carried away by the power of music and imagination, and to escape together, even if only for a while. ...
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