In a town where water keeps rising, peculiar houses are built, each time a house is flooded its inhabitant builds a new floor on top of it. There are thus, underwater houses built on top of each other, looking like small piled up cubes. Over time, inhabitants have left the town, and today only an...Continue Reading
This ambitious production tells the story of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables as an object theatre with only 2 actresses. It was created for ricca ricca*festa 2016 and achieved a great success. A renowned Italian director Davide Doro (compagnia RODISIO) portrayed the aspiration, love and lives of nameless people who never give up living and...Continue Reading
In this work without words, the puppeteer soloist Omar Alvarez, combines delicate puppets built from the recycling of everyday objects, with multimedia resources and stop-motion projections created especially for this work, presentng a romantic and fun adventure, a metaphor of the current world. Tic Toc is an antique alarm clock that treasures the wisdom of...Continue Reading
Yeh-Shen, an orphan, saved a little fish by the riverside. Yeh-Shen and the fish who had a magical power became friends who helped each other. However her greedy step mother tried to take the special power away from the fish and ended up killing it. Yeh-Shen was grieved, but the soul of the fish was...Continue Reading
Grandma takes out a dog and cat puppet from a basket. They start to move by themselves as if they are alive! The story tells about the life of the two throughout the four seasons. Every story can be told with puppet theatre! It’s a simple and heartwarming world of the glove puppets that is...Continue Reading
An old man and an old woman who are curved, crooked and shaking, but smiling, enter the stage. They are close, they are old. This performance is about their lives, their stories and their love. Developed from stories collected during workshops in both Italy and abroad, Compagnia Rodisio’s mission is to create performances from the...Continue Reading
3GAGA HEADS is a visual comedy group belonging to WAHAHA HONPO, a theatre company known for Masami Hisamoto and Rie Shibata. Since many of their works do not require language, they have performed more than 1000 times in 33 countries around the world so far, crossing racial and cultural barriers and receiving great reviews. In...Continue Reading
On board of his small truck, PAKMAN invites the audience for a rhythmical circus performance. PAKMAN lives faster than a mouse can click. Drives around the country to deliver packages – always precisely on time. 1 package, 2 forms, 3 stamps, 6 autographs, 450 times a day, 159.750 packages a year and in return 10...Continue Reading
Woven into this music is the fact that children are the treasures of Okinawa and the blessings of Tida (the sun), no matter the generation. This concert conveys the heart of the family, forever unchanging, through one grandmother’s stories and island songs sung in Okinawa for generations.Continue Reading
A tour party travels while thinking of the Journey to the West. Just then, Tang Sanzang, along with his three attendants, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing appear, having forgotten what they were doing. Is Tang headed for India on his white horse or not? While bandits, monsters, and man-eating dragons stand in their...Continue Reading
