A MANOS LLENAS TONI RUMBAU - Spain
Schedule: 10th and 11th May 2010 – 9.30pm
For audiences over: M/6Time: 50 min.Language: SpanishTechnique: Hand puppets and shadows
Toni Rumbau has created a new solo show for hand and shadow puppets for audiences of all ages.Following in the wake of his latest work, from his now classic “Two Hands”, through “Double and Shadow” and the opera “Euridice and the Puppets of Chairon”, in this new show the author-puppeteer brings together traditional, popular puppet theatre and an extremely visual language of shadows, hands and objects. The central, archetypical themes of puppet tradition (birth, death, creation, hunger, the duality of good and evil, freedom…) are treated with the unleashed vitality of the hand puppet and from the poetic and deeply symbolic perspective of the shadow theatre.The puppets: Polichinela, the Dog, the Policeman, the Devil, Death… Traditional characters, given life in today’s world by the imagination of the audience and the skill of the puppeteer. Shadows, puppets, images, sounds, a speeding rhythm of puppet manipulation, subtlety, tradition and modernity… A show created out of research and virtuosity, in which the puppeteer postulates the traditional practice of puppets as a trampoline for the search for new expressivity of sound and image. With the use of the swazzle (for some of the voices) and, furthermore, live music made by strong, but simple instruments, the puppets engendered in the depths of the mysterious puppet theatre come to life to represent the eternal rite of creativity and the struggle against death. The audience’s perception is thus amplified by a number of different points of view which are superimposed one upon the other. At the end, once the puppets have returned to the box from which they emerged, images from the Tradition which underlies a show like this are displayed in the puppet theatre. And the box of puppets, suddenly illuminated from within, becomes a new theatre – a theatre in miniature, intimate: a theatre in which the audience can imagine their own stories unfolding.
Creation, direction and puppeteer: Toni Rumbau Puppets: Mariona Masgrau Music: Octavi Rumbau Puppets choreography: Margarida Carbonell Puppet costumes: Carmen González Shadow screen: Raquel Bonillo
Ciclo: FIMFA LX10 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms