RI Teatr’s children’s play: Lies have short legs

Author and director: Bojan Lakoš
Scenographer and puppeteer: Galja Milošević
Music: Srđan Badurina
Participants: Jasna Jeličić, Galja Milošević, Andrej Gregorin and Andre Šebalj
Tibor is a preschool boy who has a vivid imagination and loves to make up stories. But the truth is a man with long legs, and a lie is a man with short legs. When a lie starts, the truth will always catch up with it. Tibor’s parents figured out how to catch up with Tibor’s untrue stories and teach him to tell the truth. And one day when Tibor woke up, his imaginary world was around him. A huge butterfly, a crocosaur, a pea, etc. appeared. But that world, no matter how special and beautiful it was, scared Tibor, who decided that he would never tell a lie again.
This is a story about short legs when you are caught in a sweet lie. A lie can start all sorts of things, all it takes is a child’s imagination. A boy who makes up all sorts of fairy tales, to the disbelief of his father and his poor mother, has learned a good lesson in life, and that story is still playing around in his head. But let’s start from head to tail, because a happy ending awaits us soon. One day in the courtyard of the building, let’s see what the boys are doing, what they are talking about, and what mischievous adventures await them…