Eves 8.00pm + Sat 2.00pm

Performed in Spanish with English supertitles

During the last moments of his life an old man feels the urge to carry out a forgotten ritual taught to him by the only survivor of an extinct and forgotten tribe. They believed each recently hatched butterfly was the spirit of a dead warrior searching for his kingdom. Every year at the same time the sacred men stood on a cliff, their arms open, palms covered in fresh nectar, waiting to feed the butterflies as they set off on their annual migration.

This original and poetic story makes the very most of the celebrated Chilean company’s striking visual style blending film and live action. Brave and ambitious, The Man Who Fed Butterflies asks questions about the true potential of the human mind.

‘Film and theatre have gone through a blender under Juan Carlos Zagal. As much a feast for the senses as it is a blow to the heart.’The Straits Times

photo : Teatro San Ferdinando Naples