Teatro de Marionetas do Porto (Portugal)

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

16 May at 9pm (Wed)

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_{Technique: Full-view manipulation Language: English, with Portuguese subtitles For audiences over: +16 Running time: 60 min.}

The unusual universe of Franz Kafka is explored in Arcano with all its dark imagery, leading the audience to the recesses of the human mind. It is a fragmented performance, which through space, the actor, the marionette and the word, seeks a balance between reality and hallucination, organic and mechanical, metaphysics and the need to solve it.

“The animal pulls the whip out of its owner’s hands and whips itself, unaware that this is just a fantasy produced by a new knot in the belt.”

- Franz Kafka

Congratulations to Teatro de Marionetas do Porto for its 30 years!

_BIO

Since their formation, in 1998, the company produced and presented more than 30 shows. All these productions represent extremely diverse experiences in the contemporary puppet theatre, looking to find new concepts and new ways of regarding the interpretation and the relationship with other areas of creation. The company was also dedicated to the study and revival of old forms of traditional theatre, like Teatro Dom Roberto, which has been presented more than a thousand times. Their founder and artistic director, João Paulo Seara Cardoso (1956-2010), studied theatre and puppet theatre, attended courses in the Institut National d’Éducation Populaire and Institut International de la Marionnette, in France. He worked with João Coimbra, Marcel Violette, Jim Henson and Lopez Barrantes. In 1982 he initiated the study and spreading of the Teatro Dom Roberto, Portuguese traditional puppets that had more than 1500 presentations. He published children’s books and was the author of television series for the young audiences. The group splits its activity between the programming of the Teatro do Belomonte, in Oporto, and an intense activity touring in Portugal and abroad. Presently, the TMP is engaged in a major project, the Puppet Museum of Oporto, opened in 2013.