Mar ~ Marionetas | Espinho International Puppet Festival

Mar~Marionetas - Festival Internacional de Marionetas de Espinho 2024

S.A.Marionetas 25 years working for the puppet [ BOOK PRESENTATION ]

• S.A.Marionetas – Teatro & Bonecos < Alcobaça, Leiria
• all audiences . 30mins . free access


• free admission on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to capacity

S.A.Marionetas 25 years working for the puppet

The book “S.A.Marionetas 25 years working for the puppet” is designed by Andreia Silvano and has interviews by Manuel Leiria. Published by S.A.Marionetas and with the support of the Portuguese Republic/DGArtes, Alcobaça City Council, Fedima Tyres, CA Crédito Agrícola and Unima Portugal. There are 360 pages in full color with the history of the company over the last 25 years. With testimonies, interviews, hundreds of photographs, curiosities, adventures, and many journeys.

what the festival has to say

Mar~Marionetas is delighted to host the presentation of this book.

A company with a strong international presence, remarkable in its artistic trajectory, with strong work around the defense of traditional puppet theater, the Dom Roberto theater, which is part of the inventory of Portuguese Cultural Intangible Heritage.

This is a beautiful edition, a rare document, as are all documents that deal with the field of theater, with a focus on the art of puppetry. The Company will be there, making this an unmissable moment.

S.A.Marionetas – Teatro & Bonecos

A professional puppet theater creation structure made up of authors, builders and puppeteers who have been producing originals in Portuguese with the aim of promoting and disseminating puppet theater since 1997. From this perspective, their work involves research and the search for new aesthetic solutions, as well as the preservation of Portuguese popular tradition through research and continuity in the realization of Teatro D. Roberto. In both cases, it favors traveling shows as the best way to spread the art of puppetry.

Since 1998, the company has organized the Puppet Theatre Festival “Marionetas na Cidade” in Alcobaça, where it is based. Since 2015, the festival has been awarded the “EFFE Label”. He has taken part in festivals in Portugal and represented the country in Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic, China, Slovakia, Macau, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, South Korea, Angola, Tunisia, Turkey, São Tomé, Austria, Iran, Thailand, Russia, Timor, the USA, Brazil, etc. Since 1997 he has created 57 original productions with more than 2,800 performances. In 2005 he was awarded the “Troféu Afonso Lopes Vieira” prize for cultural merit in the arts and entertainment. He has received 15 international and national awards and several nominations and commendations for his work. He has produced and co-produced operas, ballets, theater, cinema and television, always with puppets.

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links

• facebook.com/samarionetasteatroebonecos
• instagram.com/samarionetas
• samarionetas.com
• youtube.com/@samarionetas

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The presentation of a book is a fundamental asset. The production of documents that make it possible to learn more about the art of puppetry, as well as the production of theoretical and historical content for future memory in digital or paper format, are elements that the Mar~Marionetas Festival considers to be urgent and fundamental. In a process where understanding is still being found, we believe that the Festival also has this duty and function of public service. Therefore, it not only makes this art known through shows, training, exhibitions and performances, but also through the more theoretical side of the art of puppetry.

The S.A.Marionetas company, which has been working for over 25 years, has made several efforts to present a magnificent book that we can hold in our hands. This happened at the Espinho Art and Culture Forum, with its authors and creators passionately telling us unbelievable stories about their travels, which have taken them to more than three dozen countries around the world. While they tell us about events in China, they also tell us about Iran, as well as trips to England at times of social crisis.