Amadou (8+)

PREMIERE

Do you know that feeling? It's bedtime and you don't want to sleep. Your mother has just told one last story and is about to leave the room. You try to stretch the time by asking all kinds of questions that cannot be answered in a simple 1-2-3 manner.  
 
“Why is the squirrel so mean to the elephant? And can the swallow really predict the future? And why did the water turtle enter the dark forest?” 
 
“Now close your eyes,” says mother, “and ask wise old Amadou. He has all the answers.” “But who is Amadou, and why do I always have to ask him everything?” “Close the door, turn off the lights!” 
  
Amadou is an ode to the art of storytelling, a dazzling musical road trip, inspired by West African fairy tales and the work of the Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ. A journey that takes you to a group of chattering aunts, desert singers and talking baobabs.  
 
The audience feels, watches, tastes and listens, close around the narrator. In short: a Laika storytelling performance 'grand cru'!

About the company

Laika saw the light of day in 2001. But in actual fact, it has been around much longer. It grew out of Blauw Vier, which was founded at a time when children’s theatre was virgin territory in Flanders.  
Laika is an open and dynamic company. Innovating, expanding and rejuvenating the core artistic team is a prerequisite for artistic relevance. In 2023, the company reinforced its artistic core: charting the course now are Aminata Demba, Michai Geyzen and Sien Vanmaele together with its original spearheads Peter De Bie and Jo Roets. These five artists, each with his or her own vision, enthusiasm, and language, work together in varying combinations and contexts and in a mutually inspired and fertile synergy.