The award-winning theatre company I Sacchi di Sabbia, which has always been able to combine popular tradition and cultural research, brings to the stage an original reinterpretation of the story of the Malayan Tiger, told by slicing vegetables on a kitchen table.

Four characters gather around a kitchen table, don aprons and bring to life the intricate exploits of the Malaysian pirate. The focus of the action is the vegetable, reinvented in every form: carrots as soldiers, celery as a forest, blood-red tomatoes, potatoes as bombs, ornamental parsley. Then there are wooden spoons as swords, graters as cannons, a basin of water to evoke the sea of Borneo, kitchen roll as telescopes, paper bags, small knives, food processors...
The story takes shape in the mind of the spectator, then explodes into an overwhelming and contagious frenzy. The kitchen is transformed: it is Sandokan's home, the pirate ship, Lord Guillonk's villa, the Malaysian forest, the beach at Mompracem.
Faithful to the ideal of ironic domestic exoticism (Salgari, after all, never ventured beyond the Adriatic), the show is a tribute to the imagination – threatened by the superficial blob of our times – and, at the same time, a subtle satire of customs. Little men – us – and their big dreams face each other in a funny and elementary stage game. Who will prevail?