When I reopened Alexei Tolstoy’s book almost three years ago, placed at the forefront on the bookshelf of my childhood, I admit that I wanted to be able to turn it into a play – which wasn’t really the case. simple. I was extraordinarily happy with the enthusiasm with which I was received by the little actors of my troupe “Our Theater * Notre Théâtre * Our Theater” from the Theoretical High School “Mihail Kogălniceanu”, Vaslui with which, these days, we “set up” the 2022 edition of the play, with the English and French versions of Buratino, for an international appearance, in the frame of the Erasmus + project “Pantins pour Inclusion”.

Buratino is another universal child who makes mischief, freaks out, tells lies, befriends naughty bastards who want to harm him, befriends his whole life with a gang full of strong characters, learns what is good and what is bad in a journey of lifetime from the piece of wood to the little boy with the golden soul, like the key that the tortoise Tortilla gives him to open the hearts of the spectators, forever.

A perfect bildungsroman, without any irregularity, untouched by the roughness of time, which my little-big actors embraced and lovingly adopted. It’s “theirs”! It’s that Buratino that was mine and that I wanted to offer them. Buratino, which will be presented, in the spring of 2022, to kindergarten and general school children, whom we will film and represent at theater festivals.

The sequences that we offer you here were possible thanks to the troupe members: Ioana Vieru, Ioan Iovu, Andrei Hușanu, Daria Zaharia, Alex Cogălniceanu, Teofan Corogeanu, Bianca Ciuchilan, Miruna Creţu, Costică Cristian, Ioan Rusu, Alecsia Luca, Mădălina Nechita, whom we thank for the dedication and energy with which they invest in this theatrical project.