Manual per a éssers vius
La Mula
Esta compañía, acostumbrada a trabajar con objetos cotidianos, ha encontrado los más cotidianos de todos: las palabras y el lenguaje, que tienen la capacidad de redefinir nuestra percepción y transformar la manera como vemos el mundo.
Perception, the alteration thereof, and playfulness. These are the cornerstones of the work produced by Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa’s La Mula company. In 2024, their Thauma, on the theme of wonder, earned thunderous applause from many astounded viewers and critics. Now they are back with a show designed as the second instalment of a diptych on the theme of “astonishment”, a concept, half-surprise, half-wonder, that the ancient Greeks described as the driver of knowledge. Manual per a éssers vius, introduces innovative visual theatre language focusing on the written word. These words that determine how we see the world, then, are the protagonists. Because writing and reading, as human techniques, encompass a series of codes of perception that are embedded in daily life. The performers’ way of playing with these codes while using colour and light as core aesthetic elements set the comic tone of the show.
La Mula is a theatre company that works with the visual arts, puppets and space. Understanding the stage as a space for expression, their works are shaped by a fluid approach to theatre under the direction of Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa. Puig Torres, a creator interested in the intersection between visual and performing arts, was a resident artist at the Teatre Lliure for the 23/24 season, and in 2023 co-directed Glatir, the Ateneu Popular 9 Barris’s 28th Winter Circus, with Oriol Escursell. Martínez Costa, an actor, puppeteer, stage director and researcher who divides his time between Catalonia, France and Canada, has worked with companies such as Philippe Genty and El Conde de Torrefiel and is currently an associate artist at Plexus Polaire, a French-Norwegian company.
A Figurteatret Nordland, Grec 2025 Festival de Barcelona, Centre de les Arts Lliures de la Fundació Joan Brossa, Nilak and La Mula co-production.
In cooperation with Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Discipline
- Theater
Dates and times
Friday 18/07 - 16:30 h
Friday 18/07 - 19:30 h
Space
Durada
Language
- Català
Prices
Other criteria
- Essentials
Artistic sheet
Created and directed by: Andreu Martínez Costa, Magda Puig Torres · Set design: Víctor Peralta Carriquí and La Mula · Lighting design: Víctor Peralta Carriquí · Musical composition and sound design: Erol Ileri Llordella · Dramaturgy advisor: Jorge Gallardo Altamirano · Lighting design consultancy: Roger Arjona Loscos · Performers: Andreu Martínez Costa, Magda Puig Torres and Víctor Peralta Carriquí · Construction and mechanisms: Jan Erik Skarby, Tim Lucassen, Víctor Peralta Carriquí and La Mula · Production: Oriol Escursell and Bruna Coll Trepat · Conciliation team: Rosana Costa Navarro, Enrique Martínez Piera, Ramon Puig Soler, Teresa Torres Samsó · Distribution: Marta Riera Pi · Acknowledgements: Teo Produccions
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