Mar ~ Marionetas | Espinho International Puppet Festival

Mar~Marionetas - Festival Internacional de Marionetas de Espinho 2025

Puppets Also Have a Heart [ SHOW ]

• Marionetas Rui Sousa < Santa Maria da Feira
• M/3 . 40mins . free access


• free access with prior collection of tickets and subject to venue capacity

Puppets Also Have a Heart

The puppets open their hearts to the audience and give them the most beautiful theatre pictures, such as the Can-Can dancers, Charlot, the gardener boy, the trumpeter, among others. These characters unleash the most varied emotions, to which the audience will respond with their hearts.

Theatre is a noble art form like so many others, but it is special in its uniqueness of language. Each of the puppets can acquire a personality, express itself, or even move around the space in a particular way. This is the magic of theatre, and this is the motto for this puppet show.

what the festival has to say

The Mar~Marionetas Festival is hosting the show “As Marionetas Também Têm Coração” (Puppets Also Have a Heart), a show that explores the string technique, in its delicate movement, in an appealing image where we can be dazzled by the ability of this technique to put an object into action, giving it the character of life.

We welcome with open arms the artist Rui Sousa, puppeteer, puppet builder and extraordinary illustrator, who has already collaborated with the Festival and who develops work of recognized national and international merit.

Marionetas Rui Sousa

After an apprenticeship in painting and a musical education, as well as teaching and animation, at the turn of the millennium Rui Sousa became a professional puppeteer, practicing this profession to this day. As a puppeteer, he recovers the traditional arts of string puppetry (variety) and Teatro Dom Roberto, elevating them to living heritage. In addition to his work in theaters, auditoriums and school groups, he has been present at almost all the puppet festivals in Portugal several times.

art

links

• marionetasruisousa.blogspot.com
• facebook.com/p/Marionetas-Rui-Sousa-100077644479635
• instagram.com/marionetas_rui_sousa
• youtube.com/channel/UCQvjIimZVj2DqZXDIIFvvwQ

download

that's how

The artist Rui Sousa, who works in an unparalleled way with the art of string puppetry, brought to Mar~Marionetas a unique creation that appeals to our empathy for the emotion and sensitivity of these small objects that also feel emotion and transform themselves into what we call puppets, defying impossibility.

Created during the pandemic, this show features a series of scenes in which the puppets deeply enchant us. We see astronauts made of unlikely materials that grow and shrink before our eyes, we see little devils transforming into angels, as if evil gave way to goodness, we see a small child crying while watering flowers surrounded by sensitive birds flying through space, ballerinas dancing to enchant us, and so many other figures that pass through these scenes, demonstrating how extraordinary string puppets are in their ability to show us human sensitivity.