Rødderne i hjørnehuset / The Brats in the Corner House by Høybye, Mie 27 Dec. 2023, De la (2023/2023), Regizat de către Stine Schrøder Jensen,, The Playhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ole Lund Kirkegaard’s beloved tales – with music and songs by Laus Høybye Imagine if the kids in Ole Lund Kirkegaard’s books all lived in the same house – the corner house. This would be where Topper, his friend Viggo and Ivan Olsen live with their families, gossip aunt and doorman. And wheeling around the house would be Topper’s halfway-girlfriend, Sille. On the ground floor, Café Den Blå Havkat is up for sale, and the Hodja family is about to move in. Hodja’s father wants to open a tailor shop, because he wishes his son to become a tailor like himself. But Hodja would rather travel the world on his flying carpet. And Ivan up in his attic apartment just wants to be himself – not a real man like his father thinks he should become. On the second floor, Topper draws a rhinoceros on the wallpaper with a magic pencil. The rhino soon threatens to break the floorboards, while a tall guy named Orla Frøsnapper sneaks around the corners of the building. He has an eye for Hodja’s magical flying carpet. The Brats in the Corner House pays tribute to Ole Lund Kirkegaard and his dedication to children’s wild sense of adventure and unbridled imagination. The play is based on a number of Kirkegaard’s most-loved children’s books, including Otto is a Rhino, Orla Frøsnapper, Rubber Tarzan and Hodja from Pjort. The Brats in the Corner House is performed in Danish. Recommended from the age of 6.