Mar ~ Marionetas | Espinho International Puppet Festival

Mar~Marionetas - Festival Internacional de Marionetas de Espinho 2024

Puppet's Garden [ PLAY AREA ]

• Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora
• all audiences . free access


• Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora is a resident company in Espinho and is based at FACE - Fórum de Arte e Cultura de Espinho.

Puppet's Garden

what the festival has to say

This open-access space offers everyone traditional games built and integrated into the art of puppetry, where children can freely enjoy themselves accompanied by their families and friends.

These games, which are easily accessible to everyone, invite you to enjoy a moment of leisure together and have fun as a group, taking advantage of the outdoor space. That's why it won't be unusual for us to find friends playing games while walking around the city, inviting us to play together, one of the most important acts of childhood.

Because playing is also puppet theater!

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora is a professional puppet theater company with artistic direction by Clara Ribeiro and Filipa Mesquita and art direction by enVide neFelibata. The company was founded on April 2, 2002. In the symbiosis of a symbolic language that combines heritage and traditional legacy with contemporary society's thought and dynamics, often in a not-so-peaceful dialogue, a fundamental element emerges: the puppet. This element supports us in the search for our own cultural identity.

Our goal is to discover the aesthetic, visual, scenic, and dramatic potential of the puppet itself, as well as in its relationship with the actor, and in this discovery, explore the dramaturgy that characterizes us: to explore culture, belief, and legend allied with the city, technological exploration, and the speed of the global village. Throughout our artistic journey, we have presented various proposals to different audiences, including adults, youth, school, and family groups, as well as in basic and specialized training. One of our major commitments is the national and international tour of our projects. Decentralization, community work, partnership creation, and social and inclusive value are predominant concerns in our daily activities.

Over these 22 years, we have established the company as a contemporary artistic creation structure through dozens of show proposals presented nationally and internationally, whether they are our own creations or collaborations with other national and international cultural structures and entities. Our premise is to provide space for the creative freedom of our artistic team, ensuring the existence within the structure of various languages and diverse visions that unite in the common goal of developing the art of puppet theater. Reflection on social fragility issues and a keen eye on traditions and heritage form the basis of the Company's dramaturgy, consolidated in distinct yet simultaneously convergent perspectives.

Dialogue with diverse audiences and the involvement of creation in different contexts and spaces, as well as the intersection between entities and structures, is fundamental, creating multidisciplinary proposals aimed mainly at artistic communication with audiences. Noteworthy is our collaboration with numerous educational services in the implementation of activities in institutions such as monuments, museums, and heritage buildings.

art

links

• ei.marionetasmandragora.pt
• loja.marionetasmandragora.pt
• marionetasmandragora.pt
• facebook.com/marionetas.mandragora
• instagram.com/marionetas_mandragora
• youtube.com/@MarionetasMandragora

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that's how

The Festival was held at the Espinho Art and Culture Forum, which is also the Espinho Municipal Museum. Conditioned by the weather, we set up a series of didactic proposals in this beautiful building in the form of games for the little ones. They were able to spend the day around the art of puppetry with their families. These games, inspired by traditional Portuguese games and influenced by the art of puppetry, provide a moment of leisure, but also an opportunity to get in touch with the art of puppetry. These are fun moments where the children move around, dialoguing with these objects and doing something that is fundamental to childhood: playing.