"Óscar"
MUSEU DA MARIONETA
23 May at 4pm (Saturday) | 24 May at 11.30am (Sunday)
Direction and set design: João Paulo Seara Cardoso Puppets and costumes: Júlio Vanzeler Music: Roberto Neulichedl Text: João Paulo Seara Cardoso, with the collaboration of Sofia Aguiar Reis, Regina Guimarães (Songs) Movement: Isabel Barros Lighting design: António Real Performers: Edgard Fernandes, Micaela Soares, Rui Queiroz de Matos Painting of puppets and props: Emília Sousa Lighting and sound operation: Filipe Azevedo Production: Sofia Carvalho Construction: Cláudia Armanda, Vítor Silva Confection of costumes: Branca Elíseo Set construction: Américo Castanheira Photography: Henrique Delgado Graphic design: Júlio Vanzeler Company sponsored by: Governo de Portugal - Secretário de Estado da Cultura | DGArtes Technique: Full-view manipulation For audiences over: +4 Language: Portuguese Running time: Approx. 55 min.
Óscar is a little boy who owns a garden, his favourite playground.
In the garden he creates imaginary worlds and he communicates with the animals, the plants and Joaquim, the Gardener.
The show is structured in the four seasons, along which the garden takes on different clothing. The stories, the music, the colours, the words, the scents, appear as sensations characterising the garden during the different stages of the year.
Winter arrives. Óscar sees the garden through the window of his house. When it is not raining, he plays with water puddles. The winter is over. Life is reborn again in the garden, the stage lights go out...
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 ways of conception and new ways of regarding the interpretation and the relationship with other areas of creation. The company also dedicates itself 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.
Óscar is a little boy who owns a garden, his favourite playground.
In the garden he creates imaginary worlds and he communicates with the animals, the plants and Joaquim, the Gardener.
The show is structured in the four seasons, along which the garden takes on different clothing. The stories, the music, the colours, the words, the scents, appear as sensations characterising the garden during the different stages of the year.
Winter arrives. Óscar sees the garden through the window of his house. When it is not raining, he plays with water puddles. The winter is over. Life is reborn again in the garden, the stage lights go out...
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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 ways of conception and new ways of regarding the interpretation and the relationship with other areas of creation. The company also dedicates itself 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.
