Ei! Marionetas / Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Ei! Marionetas - Encontro Internacional de Marionetas de Gondomar 2025

Puppet's Garden [ PLAY AREA ]

• Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora
• all audiences . free access

Puppet's Garden

what the festival has to say

Playing with puppets is a method of approaching creativity, transformed into a playful and educational process.

The trees in the garden await the nets that will be filled with children swinging with the energy so characteristic of this age group.

Playing games in childhood brings so many benefits that we can only believe it is worthwhile to bring games, make them available to children and their families, so that they can enjoy a collective moment and the rapid development of their young identities.

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora is a professional puppet theater company with artistic direction by Clara Ribeiro and Filipa Mesquita and art direction by enVide neFelibata. The company was founded on April 2, 2002. In the symbiosis of a symbolic language that combines heritage and traditional legacy with contemporary society's thought and dynamics, often in a not-so-peaceful dialogue, a fundamental element emerges: the puppet. This element supports us in the search for our own cultural identity.

Our goal is to discover the aesthetic, visual, scenic, and dramatic potential of the puppet itself, as well as in its relationship with the actor, and in this discovery, explore the dramaturgy that characterizes us: to explore culture, belief, and legend allied with the city, technological exploration, and the speed of the global village. Throughout our artistic journey, we have presented various proposals to different audiences, including adults, youth, school, and family groups, as well as in basic and specialized training. One of our major commitments is the national and international tour of our projects. Decentralization, community work, partnership creation, and social and inclusive value are predominant concerns in our daily activities.

Over these 22 years, we have established the company as a contemporary artistic creation structure through dozens of show proposals presented nationally and internationally, whether they are our own creations or collaborations with other national and international cultural structures and entities. Our premise is to provide space for the creative freedom of our artistic team, ensuring the existence within the structure of various languages and diverse visions that unite in the common goal of developing the art of puppet theater. Reflection on social fragility issues and a keen eye on traditions and heritage form the basis of the Company's dramaturgy, consolidated in distinct yet simultaneously convergent perspectives.

Dialogue with diverse audiences and the involvement of creation in different contexts and spaces, as well as the intersection between entities and structures, is fundamental, creating multidisciplinary proposals aimed mainly at artistic communication with audiences. Noteworthy is our collaboration with numerous educational services in the implementation of activities in institutions such as monuments, museums, and heritage buildings.

art

links

• ei.marionetasmandragora.pt
• loja.marionetasmandragora.pt
• marionetasmandragora.pt
• facebook.com/marionetas.mandragora
• instagram.com/marionetas_mandragora
• youtube.com/@MarionetasMandragora

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that's how

Traditional games with puppets are back. A leisure space where you can play, rest, relax, stretch out in the gardens while waiting for shows, waiting for a place in the workshops, or simply because the little ones won't budge in their contagious joy. The garden trees are filled with hammocks full of children swinging with the energy so characteristic of this age group.

Playing with puppets is a method of approaching creativity, transformed into a playful and educational process. Playing in childhood brings so many benefits that we can only believe it is worthwhile to bring games, make them available to children and their families, so that they can enjoy a collective moment and the rapid development of their young identities.

Every day until next Sunday, the last day of Ei!