A Tarumba (Portugal)
CRANKIES DE FAZER CHORAR AS PEDRAS DA CALÇADA
SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Bernardo Sassetti
7 May at 9.30pm (Thu) | 8 and 9 May às 7.30pm (Fri, Sat)
Lisbon Premiere
⇨ FREE ADMISSION upon presentation of a ticket for the Dead as Dodo show on the day of each Crankies de Fazer Chorar as Pedras da Calçada
Technique: Crankies, panoramas Language: Portuguese Age-guidance: +6 Runs: Approx. 15 min.
Crankies to Melt the Coldest Heart: Musiscopes with story-songs that will make you cry your eyes out. You will cry like a banshee, you will cry and beg for more, you will shed crocodile tears, while crying and laughing at the same time!
From crankies to moving panoramas with swirling images, A Tarumba invites you to experience unforgettable moments that will warm even the coldest of hearts. ❤️
An unforgettable moment to savour before or after a show...
"(...) It is then that an impressive crankie begins (...). Before this ethnographic parade, the audience smiled, marveling at the association of images. But the best was yet to come (...). The audience was also prompted to sing aloud (...) while wiping away tears of laughter. A simple solution, yet masterfully executed."
- Catarina Ferreira, Jornal de Notícias
BIO
A Tarumba - Teatro de Marionetas is a Portuguese professional theatre company, based in Lisbon, established in 1993, with artistic direction of Luís Vieira and Rute Ribeiro. Its purpose is to spread and promote puppetry and visual theatre. Tarumba means to be confused or perplexed, astounded, fascinated, stunned, astonished… words that express the company’s general feeling towards the puppetry arts.
The development of a work of great artistic and technical standard, as well as the constant innovation within the field of puppetry in Portugal, are the key aspects which have been characterizing the company’s activity.
The artistic project comprises: creation and artistic experimentation; the International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms - FIMFA Lx organization and programme; training and research with the creation of a Puppetry Arts Centre | Centro de Artes da Marioneta - CAMa.
Since 2001, A Tarumba organizes annually the International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms - Festival Internacional de Marionetas e Formas Animadas - FIMFA Lx. The company received the Critics Award 2010 given to FIMFA given by the Portuguese Association of Theatre Critics. In 2013, the artistic directors, Luís Vieira and Rute Ribeiro, were awarded with the Personality of the Year Award, within the National Multimedia Awards given by Associação Multimédia, by their work on the festival.
The company has been performing all over Portugal and abroad in many international festivals (France - Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières 2013 and 1019 - Programme IN, Norway, USA, Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Hungary or United Kingdom), especially for an adult audience, with shows by Christopher Marlowe, Federico Garcia Lorca or Bertolt Brecht, among others. Besides the shows A Tarumba develops experimental workshops on puppetry arts, specifically for professionals, teachers or children, like, for instance, toy theatre or shadow workshops. Luís Vieira and Rute Ribeiro were Guest Artists of the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference 2024 – Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, USA.
The CAMa - Centro de Artes da Marioneta is home to the company and a centre for project development, where the Funicular Project, a programme of training composed by international workshops is also integrated and a documentation centre.
CREDITS
Artistic direction, device construction and performers: Luís Vieira, Rute Ribeiro Stage assistance and executive production: Mariana Monteiro, Pedro Russo Photography: Rute Ribeiro, Margarida Barbedo Support and partnership: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC/Lisboa Cultura Company sponsored by: República Portuguesa - Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes