"O Avarento"
SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Teatro-Estúdio Mário Viegas
19, 20 and 21 May at 9pm (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Direction: Olivier Benoit, Miquel Gallardo Puppeteers: Miquel Gallardo, Olivier Benoit Original idea: Jordi Bertran Concept: Miquel Gallardo, Olivier Benoit, Jordi Bertran Adaptation: Eva Hibernia, Miquel Gallardo, Olivier Benoit Set design: Xavier Erra Costumes: Susana Santos Lighting design: Daniel Ibor, Miquel Gallardo Sound Universe: Olivier Benoit, Miquel Gallardo Lighting and sound technician: Xavier Muñoz Photography: Marta Vidanes Production: Compañía Pelmànec with the collaboration of Tàbola Rassa Technique: Object theatre For audiences over: +8 Language: Spanish Running time: 75 min.
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In this adaptation of Molière’s The Miser it is no longer money that everyone covets, but water. The characters of this visionary comedy become taps (at times dressed with a simple cloth), pipes and hoses... containers of every kind.
Object theatre assumes a different view of the world surrounding us, it is an invitation to perceive in each object traces of the humanity that has created it. It is this human dimension of objects the production wishes to reveal to us.
Two actors manipulate these objects in front of the audience and give life to no less than twelve characters, offering us a fresh and funny version of this great classic. This performance has been presented all over the world and has been awarded prizes on several occasions. It is a production in which the pleasure of acting, connecting with the audience and laughing together take precedence, while dealing with a theme as serious as the lack of natural resources.
A wonderful show that was one of the greatest successes of FIMFA!
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“For me, and for most, the highlight was the Tàbola Rassa version of Moliere’s The Miser (L’Avaro); I’ve written about it before – it’s a simple tabletop setting with puppets made of bath-taps, showerheads, pipes and so on attached to pieces of cloth, manipulated by two consummate actor-puppeteers. It was very fast, very rude and extremely funny. The audience was entranced and gave it an ovation. Funny how the simplest means coupled with a brilliant idea can usually result in triumph.” - Penny Francis, Animations Online
Awards:
-Best Production, Fira de Titelles de Lleida 2002;
-Best Production and Best Interpretation, Fira de Titelles de la Vall d’Albaida 2002;
-Best Production, Jury and Audience Prize, Belo Horizonte Festival, 2003 (Brazil);
-Prize for Best Production of the Season, Teatro del Mar Theatre Goers Association, 2003 (Palma de Mallorca);
-PIF Festival Prize, Zagreb, 2005 (Croatia);
-Ostrava Festival Prize, 2005 (Czech Republic);
-Prize for Most Original Production and Audience Prize, Lutke Festival, 2008 (Slovenia).
Tickets online
In this adaptation of Molière’s The Miser it is no longer money that everyone covets, but water. The characters of this visionary comedy become taps (at times dressed with a simple cloth), pipes and hoses... containers of every kind.
Object theatre assumes a different view of the world surrounding us, it is an invitation to perceive in each object traces of the humanity that has created it. It is this human dimension of objects the production wishes to reveal to us.
Two actors manipulate these objects in front of the audience and give life to no less than twelve characters, offering us a fresh and funny version of this great classic. This performance has been presented all over the world and has been awarded prizes on several occasions. It is a production in which the pleasure of acting, connecting with the audience and laughing together take precedence, while dealing with a theme as serious as the lack of natural resources.
A wonderful show that was one of the greatest successes of FIMFA!
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Awards:
-Best Production, Fira de Titelles de Lleida 2002;
-Best Production and Best Interpretation, Fira de Titelles de la Vall d’Albaida 2002;
-Best Production, Jury and Audience Prize, Belo Horizonte Festival, 2003 (Brazil);
-Prize for Best Production of the Season, Teatro del Mar Theatre Goers Association, 2003 (Palma de Mallorca);
-PIF Festival Prize, Zagreb, 2005 (Croatia);
-Ostrava Festival Prize, 2005 (Czech Republic);
-Prize for Most Original Production and Audience Prize, Lutke Festival, 2008 (Slovenia).
BIO
The company Pelmànec is the creative platform of Miquel Gallardo, actor, playwright and puppeteer in more than twenty-year experience. It was created in 2009 to debut his first solo show: Don Juan. Memoria amarga de mí. In 2011 he creates Diagnóstico: Hamlet (that was presented in FIMFA Lx12). In both cases Miquel Gallardo explores the puppet technique and simultaneous interpretation, with life-size puppets, creating a personal style for which he received important awards and recognition from the public and critics. In 2014 he recovered the show El Avaro (The Miser) by Molière, a work created by him together with Olivier Benoit and Jordi Bertran, and premiered in 2000. It’s a hilarious adaptation of the classic French for the object theatre that have travelled all over the world at the hands of Tàbola Rassa, and won several awards. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of its premiere, Miquel Gallardo returns again to present this show, renewing it, but keeping it’s critical and wild spirit. El Avaro was presented in FIMFA LX9, and was one of the greatest successes of the Festival and due to numerous requests from the public, it will be presented again in the celebration of FIMFA’s 15th edition.
