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Sinopse

FIMP 2023

Marionetas do Porto

Armazém 88

October

2023

Fri
6
Sat
7

Sinopse

In the present we travel to the past to project a future.
Diving into the universe of the company's founder, João Paulo Seara Cardoso, the Marionetas do Porto creates a show from its dormant archive, recovering puppets, materials, ideas and concepts, taking advantage of the timelessness and transmutation of puppets. Armazém 88 is an ethereal place that reflects on the speed of time, the volatility of things, massification, isolation and how our emotions survive in this urban world.
On this 35th anniversary of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto we present a show that focuses on the reflections of our founder in communion with ours. This is our celebration, our tribute. — Marionetas do Porto

“It’s this strange resonance of theater with life that we obsessively seek.”
João Paulo Seara Cardoso, 2001

story

house

transformation

reinvention

future

timelessness

Colour photo. Warehouse room with several bookshelves, boxes, stairs, puppets, among other objects.

© Marionetas do Porto

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Fri

6.10

21:30

Sat

7.10

19:30

RivoliGrand Auditorium

tickets

Aditional info

  • Price 
    12€
  • Duration 
    50min
  • Age rating 
    14+

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

Accessible to wheelchair users
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Author's bio text

Teatro de Marionetas do Porto was born in September of 1988, a symbolic date that corresponds to the presentation of the company at the Word Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières. The company’s theatrical practice reveals a non-conventional way of looking at puppets—in fact, an ever-changing notion—and an understanding of puppet theatre as a poetic and visual language reminiscent of contemporaneity. They seek to find new ways of designing puppets, which are ultimately kinetic objects, and new ways of exploring the grammar of this theatrical language concerning performance and the cross-cutting relation with other forms of expression such as dance, visual arts, music and image. In 2013, when it celebrated its 25th anniversary, the company fulfilled the great dream of its founder (João Paulo Seara Cardoso, 1956-2010) and opened the Porto Puppet Museum.

Ficha Técnica

  • Created by 
    Marionetas do Porto (Catarina Falcão, Filipe Azevedo, João Pedro Trindade, Micaela Soares, Vitor Gomes)

    Performed by
    Bernardo Gavina, Mariana L. Ferreira, Micaela Soares, Vítor Gomes

    Text 
    coletivo

    Dramaturgical assistant
    Jorge Louraço Figueira 

    Music
    Roberto Neulichedl 

    Lighting 
    Filipe Azevedo

  • Costumes
    Pedro Ribeiro 

    Set design
    Bruno Capucho 

    Artistic consultants 
    Igor Gandra, Isabel Barros, Júlio Vanzeler, Luís Aly, Mário Moutinho

    Produced by
    Sofia Carvalho

    Co-produced by 
    Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto

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