A carrot steals a throne and it's operatic chaos. Vegetables have never been this political.
Deposed by the genius Robin-Luron and replaced by the despotic and populist King Carrot, the leader of the vegetables, Fridolin XXIV of Krokodyne, faces all kinds of zany and wonderful adventures: from the spells of the witch Coloquinte to his encounter with the enchanter Quiribi and Rosée-du-Soir. They help him regain his throne and overthrow the tyrannical Carrot. A burlesque nightmare.
Direction
Burlesque staging that commits fully to vegetable madness.
Score
Offenbach's propulsive music weaponized for political chaos.
Costume
Humanoid vegetables that somehow look regal and ridiculous.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Offenbach wrote this as satire of Napoleon III's Second Empire—carrot populism hits different now.
The original 1872 production bankrupted its impresario; the vegetable revolution was too expensive.
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