Puppet Show
Trébol
Sat, Aug 1, 5pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Insurgentes 25
60 pesos

A clover’s journey
By Gerardo Curiel

Music, puppets, a boat and imagination are the only elements needed to tell a story to impress on viewers that Ireland will always be magical. The story of this play is based on a small clover, a symbol of luck, which travels along the coasts of Ireland searching for someone to whom it can bestow good fortune. Through its travels, the clover meets several characters, but on the contrary they feel they are being chased by the bad luck this clover attracts.

The show comes together with a selection of Irish music, mythic characters from far away lands, all wrapped up in small scenes which are funny, clever, sweet, poetic and very entertaining.

After national and international tours, courses, workshops and demonstrations, the theater company Tragaleguas Teatro de Títeres merged in 2002 with the theater group Demediado. Their work relies on the management of several tools: tools of expression such as acting, pantomime, clown technique and story telling; visual tools like puppets, stilts, juggling and unicycle; actor training as a tool, with acrobatics, improvisation, gymnastics and capoeira.

Director Lorena Kasper says, “When you take a trip, you want it to be amazing, but later as you remember it, you tell it and describe it, and it tends to sound even better than you imagined. With this presentation, we try to recreate a journey through Irish music. Without pretensions, we hop on board, seduced by this fantastic land and telling little stories on the way with a bit of flush, poetry and good humor.”