Mar ~ Marionetas | Espinho International Puppet Festival

Mar~Marionetas - Festival Internacional de Marionetas de Espinho 2024

The girl who painted birds [ SHOW ]

• Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora
• M/6 . 45mins . 5€
• session with interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language
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• Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora is a resident company in Espinho and is based at FACE - Fórum de Arte e Cultura de Espinho.

The girl who painted birds

There are paper-hearted people who are fragile and delicate. There are stone-hearted people who are strong but get caught up in themselves. There are scissor-heart people who can create or shatter.

Alma decided to be paper. Alma was there by choice, or rather, by a multitude of choices. There might not have been any villains, because we can all make choices.

What those choices were, and how they transformed this story into what it is, are the secret of this show.

what the festival has to say

All children deserve to be whatever they choose. “The girl who painted birds” is one of the latest creations by Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora, which presents a challenging creation in which conventional puppets are combined with digital puppets in a spiral space that takes us back to the absence of freedom. Created by Clara Ribeiro, this impactful project challenges us to think about what we have to do in an effort to have a free soul. Because freedom, when one born, is not always for everyone.

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.

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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 Auditorium of Espinho - Academia was sold out to watch Teatro e Marioneta de Mandrágora's show “The girl who painted birds”. A room full of families watched in silence as they shared this sensitive story that deeply moved many.

The Mar~Marionetas Festival would like to thank everyone who has sold out the halls over the last few days, but for the Mandrágora Puppet Theater there is full satisfaction in the fact that we are also presenting one of our shows that has toured so extensively. It's a moment that makes it possible to understand the artistic universe that this company, housed in the Municipal Museum of Espinho, is moving towards. We believe that the proposals presented by the company, whether they are exhibitions, playful, performative, formative or, as was the case here, in the form of a show, reveal the genesis of the dramaturgical work and thinking about the art of Mandrágora Theatre and Puppetry in its multiple facets of observation about the society that surrounds us.