Music is like water: it takes the shape of whatever vessel contains it, yet it always remains water.
With this play on words, Bustric reminds us that music sets both spectators and performers free. Though it is the same for everyone, it is different for each individual. Everyone can interpret it in their own way. Music is a traveling companion capable of becoming the protagonist at any moment, without ever overpowering.
For many years, Bustric has created and played with stories and characters that converse with music. His world — made of magic, sleight of hand, juggling, pantomime, and words — blends beautifully with this ancient art form, which was born alongside humankind.
This Little Prince, freely inspired by the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is proof of that.
The story everyone knows becomes the starting point for scenes that expand and unfold, creating surprise. Here, the aim is to uncover the wonder hidden behind the words of The Little Prince. It is a free and lighthearted performance in which a deliberately simple set transforms from moment to moment, becoming different landscapes and magical spaces each time. The game itself tells the story and becomes the narrative.
Even more than the plot, Bustric’s way of staging carries a strong educational value, encouraging creativity. To invent and create is perhaps the most beautiful and extraordinary human activity. Children must be shown that it is possible. Bustric offers a tangible example — visible to all, right before their eyes. The storytelling, even when complex, always resolves itself through inventiveness and simplicity — the simplicity that comes from study and from eliminating unnecessary ornamentation. One goes straight to the heart of things; there is no need for overly elaborate or costly sets.
Bustric shows us that if we free the mind — and with it the imagination — and give space to play, anything can be represented: “Imaginary planets… Impossible characters… everything.” Audiences are always willing to believe and to enter the actor’s game.
As Borges said, theater is “a voluntary suspension of disbelief.” Children possess this extraordinary capacity naturally. For them, surrendering to play is entirely instinctive — they are simply waiting to be inspired.
But they must never be disappointed — that would be fatal. Promises must always be kept.
“One day a little boy asked me: how do you perform magic? I told him it takes magic dust. He became very serious and, as if he had made an extraordinary discovery, asked me: Would the dust from my house work too?!”

Music by

Claude Debussy
Georges Bizet
Maurice Ravel
A. Canonici