Fairytale Fashionshow with Thé Tjong-Khing (4+)

During the Fairytale Fashion Show, Thé Tjong-Khing’s most extraordinary characters come to life. But why do these fairytale figures always get up to such strange antics? | WU X Kleine Lettertjes X De Betovering | € 8,50

Sprookjesmodeshow met Thé Tjong-Khing | Photo by Chris van Houts

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Date and time Wednesday 21 October 2026 14:00 tot 15:00 uur
Location Laaktheater
Price € 8,50

WU X Kleine Lettertjes X De Betovering | From the peaks of the highest mountains in Bolivia to a remote island in the Japanese sea, Thé Tjong-Khing takes you on an unforgettable journey through his fairytale books. The stories he tells come from all corners of the world and date back centuries, yet the magic of these fairytales remains as powerful as ever.

During the Fairytale Fashion Show, his most extraordinary characters come to life in all their splendour – and talk back to their creator. Why do these fairytale figures always get up to such strange antics? And do they really all live happily ever after? Host Swendeline Ersilia tries to uncover the secrets behind the most beautiful fairytales, together with Khing and his characters, in this interactive and hilarious fashion show.

There are two shows: at 11:00 and at 14:00. With your ticket you have access to the show during one of both timeslots.

After the show, children can cut and paste a new outfit for the characters from Thé Tjong-Khing’s fairytales.

With Thé Tjong-Khing, Swendeline Ersilia, Charlene Schmeltz and Barry Emond

This production was created by Kleine Lettertjes and is presented in collaboration with Writers Unlimited and De Betovering. Children must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. Both children and their parents or guardians must purchase a ticket.

Thé Tjong-Khing

(Indonesia, 1933) is a strip cartoonist and illustrator. After art school in Bandung he came to the Netherlands in 1956 and started working with Toonder Studios. He drew for a girl's magazine, Tina. In 1970 Miep Diekmann asked him to illustrate her book Total loss, weet je wel. (Total Loss, You Know?). Before long he was drawing on a fulltime basis, illustrating the children's books of Guus Kuijer, Els Pelgrom, Sylvia Vanden Heede and Dolf Verroen, which won him three Gouden Penselen (golden pencils). Thé Tjong-Khing is a film buff, countless times he won in a famous Dutch film quiz. In 2005 he was recipient of the Woutertje Pieterse Prize and the Zilveren Penseel (silver pencil) for his pictuere book Waar is de taart? (Where is the Cake?), which he devised and drew. Since 2006 his older work is republished, among others the strip cartoon Arman & Ilva. In 2010 he was recipient of the Max Velthuijs Prize for his entire oeuvre and in 2011 the Dutch Literary Museum organised a special exhibition about his work.
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