A punk rock redhead doing ballet? The strongest girl in the world pirouettes onto your screen.
Pippi Longstocking, a superhuman girl, extremely strong, redhead with pigtails and freckles, moves to Villa Villekulla, a wooden house located in a small town, together with her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and her horse, Little Old Man. She soon befriends the children who live next door, Tommy and Annika, with whom she will live many fun adventures. (At Finnish National Opera and Ballet, December 14, 2019.)
Practical Effects
Live horse on stage somehow not stealing every scene
Costume
Those iconic mismatched stockings in motion—sartorial rebellion
Acting
Abigail Sheppard's physical comedy—strength and grace colliding
Director
Pär Isberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Astrid Lindgren created Pippi in 1941 as a post-war fantasy of self-sufficient childhood; this 2019 Finnish production leans hard into that escapism with punk aesthetics.
The horse, Little Old Man, was played by multiple trained equine performers—no CGI, just genuinely confused animals in a ballet.
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