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Cabaret Voltaire
It's World War I. Artists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings take refuge in Switzerland, a neutral country in the conflict. In Zurich, they open a café they call the Cabaret Voltaire. Artists from all over the world fleeing the war arrive here.
The Cabaret Voltaire, a safe space for freedom and artistic creation, is the meeting point for avant-garde art of the first half of the 20th century and the place that gave rise to the DADA movement, one of the most important movements in the history of contemporary art...
LÚMEN
a story of love
Lumen is a large-scale puppet theater production that involves the local population, as well as sports, recreational and musical institutions. From this union of efforts a show is born illuminating the night through a musical and movement narrative in which all who attend participate. The greatness of the characters with 5 meters of height wander around the built heritage told stories that are confused with the local ones...
ALFREDO
THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
In a distant land full of life and beautiful like no other. There lived a person with a very particular taste. Collect butterflies. But only the red ones, the rarest. His obsession was such that he kept them in a protected place on all sides from potential thieves. One day when he was on one of his hunts, he was trapped in a hole...
A Viagem de Sophia
The S.A.Marionetas company presents its new production based on the text The journey of the book Contos Exemplares de Sophia de Mello Breyner. This is a journey that is being made through the characters of the story represented in puppets of direct manipulation that move in poetic wanderings through a place in constant mutation...
Consonance
Dom Roberto Piano and Theater
It is a project that brings together two arts that have in common the domain of improvisation and the consonance for free movement in music and theater. In the year that the traditional Portuguese puppet traveling theater is about to enter the list of intangible heritage of Portugal. José Gil puppeteer of the SAMarionetas company and performer of this theater with origins in the 18th century. Join the pianist Daniel Bernardes...
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Short stories of a place where its inhabitants live the most varied adventures. The innocence of the actions results in hilarious moments of humor experienced by the characters sculpted in sponge. Sounds and movements replace words, puppets captivate us with their simplicity, transporting us to a magical and captivating place and etc., etc., etc ... meanwhile the little cat did something he shouldn't, and etc., etc. ...
fotografia de Sofia Vinagre
fotografia de Sofia Vinagre
Desenho de Renato da Silva
fotografia de Sofia Vinagre
A Farsa do Sapateiro
“Gil Vicente debuts his new comedy at the wedding parties of D. Isabel with Carlos V. On days of debuting his new work, he goes into despair because the shoes for the actors that would be made by the royal shoemaker are missing. As he doesn't appear Gil Vicente decides to go to his house to see what is going on.
In Torres Novas, after being called by the king to deliver new shoes to use in the courts, he stayed at home trying to finish the shoes ordered by Gil Vicente, but...
fotografia de João Costa
fotografia de João Costa
fotografia de Joaquim Pesqueira
fotografia de João Costa
Inês de Castro
Theatrum Puparum
Theatrum Puparum" (puppet theatre) uses rod puppets that operate in a medieval setting. Made of wood and clay and manipulated by two lovely maidens, the puppets recount the life and loves of Inês de Castro in a tragicomedy that leaves out neither the true facts of this medieval romance nor the legends created around it over the centuries...
Dom Roberto Theater
traditional Portuguese puppet theater
Registered in the National Inventory of Intangible Heritage INPCI_2021-003
Portucale
Portucale tells of the foundation of Portugal with the marriage of Count D. Henrique to D. Teresa, his death, the disagreements of D. Teresa with his son Afonso Henriques, his acclaim among the soldiers as King of Portucale and finally the desired recognition of the Pope...
Na Tal Estrela
an almost scientific fiction
On Christmas Eve Rita, after receiving the gifts, does not let her brothers play with her new toys and so she goes to the bedroom to punish herself to sleep.
That night he dreams that he reaches a star that he watches from his window every day and discovers that the inhabitants there are smaller than her, fluffy and full of fur...
