La Mula (Spain)

Thauma is a journey through an amazed mind. It works like a poetic game, in which top and bottom, background and figure, the big and the small are confused, creating different ways of seeing the same thing.

It follows the codes of the graphic novel and the theater of objects, proposing a landscape that gradually opens up, revealing its interior.

Thauma is a scenic poem focused on the ability to marvel and remain suspended in a poetic terrain that has no purpose, no conclusion, and no ending.

Thauma appeals to humor, beauty, mystery and the unexpected, to an astonishment that does not formulate thought, but can be the seed of thinking itself.

Critics Award Barcelona 2025 - New Trends; Teatre Barcelona Best Hybrid Stage Show 2024; Drac d'Or Award Puppet Fair International Jury,

Drac d'Or Award Puppet Fair Best Scenic Design, Drac d'Or Award Puppet Fair Best Innovative Show, Max Award for Best Scenography.

^{"The box of wonders}

^{Thauma is an attractive, tasty and easily digestible proposal. In other words, for all palates, ages and types of audience. Is there anything more universal than looking and being surprised? An audience of young and old marveled at this clean and colorful piece. Contemporary creation for all audiences, mischievous hybridization, pop show with a Brossian and avant-garde atmosphere (...).}

^{I can and do affirm, without any shame, that this show should go around the world. And it’s very clear to me that it would work just as well anywhere in the world. Because the ability to marvel knows no borders. And because it is very nice, from time to time, to go to the theater and let ourselves being surprised.} 

^{- Oriol Puigtaulé, Núvol}

^{"This had never been seen in the theater}

^{Plato and Aristotle considered Thauma (surprise) the driver of wisdom, and therefore the foundation of philosophy itself. Andreu Martínez and Magda Puig Torres have made the concept their own in a stage proposal as unusual among us as it is successful, even though it does not aim to philosophize but to captivate, to marvel. Yes, really amazing." - Santi Fondevila, Now}

^{"The unexpected surrealist}

^{Aesthetics play in favor of surprise, of playing to imagine new worlds. It has a focused reference, although with an almost unattainable camera aperture (...).}

^{The game is constant. The plastic, absolute. At times, one can imagine moments of a cataclysm of humanity; in others a disproportionate joke with a dinosaur fighting a helicopter like that gorilla and the planes from King Kong." - Jordi Bordes, Recomana.cat}

^{"The unexpected surrealist}

^{Aesthetics play in favor of surprise, of playing to imagine new worlds. It has a focused reference, although with an almost unattainable camera aperture (...).}

^{The game is constant. The plastic, absolute. At times, one can imagine moments of a cataclysm of humanity; in others a disproportionate joke with a dinosaur fighting a helicopter like that gorilla and the planes from King Kong." - Andreu Gomila, Temps de les Arts}

BIO

La Mula, formed by Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa, is a theater company that works with visual arts, puppets and space. It is interested in perception, its alteration and playful game. Understanding the scene as a space for expression, its work is marked by a plastic theater and research in visual dramaturgy.

Magda Puig is a creator interested in the confluence of performing and visual arts. She was a resident artist at Teatre Lliure during the 23/24 season. Andreu Martínez Costa is an actor, puppeteer, director, and researcher, working across Catalonia, France, and Canada. He has collaborated with companies such as Philippe Genty and El Conde de Torrefiel and is currently an associate artist with the Franco-Norwegian company Plexus Polaire, where he performed in the productions Moby Dick and Cendres, both presented in previous editions of FIMFA.

_CREDITS

_{Creation and direction: Magda Puig, Torres Andreu Martinez Costa International mentorship: Dimitris Papaioannou Dramaturgist: Jorge Gallardo Performers: Marina Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Panduro, Erol Ileri Llordella Sound design: Marc Naya Costumes: Nídia Tusal Lighting design: Tony Ubach Scenography: Victor Peralta Artifact design: Pepo Carreras Object construction: Andreu Martínez, Magda Puig Photography: Sílvia Poch Production: Oriol Escursell Coproduction: Teatre Lliure, Nilak Support: Figurteatret Nordland, Ivam Cada Alcoi, Museum of Music Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya}

_{www.lamula.org}