It is a work that can be found on almost everyone’s bookshelf: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, published by the author in exile in New York in 1943. A poetic and magical story about friendship, love and realising that “adults are strange”, which became one of the most famous literary works, selling more than 80 million copies and being translated into 180 languages. 

In Adi Hanan’s world premiere to a variety of compositions by Claude Debussy, it is the Pilot, the symbol of the adult world, who undergoes an inner transformation. For him, his encounter with the Little Prince sets off a process of rediscovery: he reconnects with himself and with what he seems to have lost by becoming an adult. The story becomes a journey through adolescence – or rather of rediscovering memories. The trip unfolds through the eyes of the Little Prince in a fantasy world of dance and colours. Meetings with different characters and personalities shape the journey and open ever new perspectives.