Puppet theater

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  • De Compañía Teatro y su Doble | Dirección de Aline Kuppenheim y Paola Giannini
  • Country: Chili
  • Premiere: 2012
  • Target audience: + 8 years
  • Length: 50 minutes

The acclaimed chilean puppet company Teatro y su Doble presents this moving story between a grandfather and his granddaughter, and the importance of affection in the grieving process after the loss of a loved one.

A man, recently widowed, lives by the sea and waits for his little granddaughter Esme to visit him at the end of the vacation, as she does every year. The little girl does not know about the death of her grandmother. The man does not know how to say it.

It is his own difficulty to articulate the idea of his wife's absence that pushes him to invent that the grandmother left with the circus to become a tightrope walker. But Esme wants to know, wants to see her on the tightrope.

Without his being able to mention it, Esme ends up understanding, as children do, and they say goodbye until the following year, having built a new and special relationship together.

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Credits:

Dramaturgy:

Mike Kenny

Company:

Teatro y su Doble

Direction:

Paola Giannini and Aline Kuppenheim

General Design:

Aline Kuppenheim

Production:

Teatro Milagros (currently Teatro y su Doble)

Cast:

Aline Kuppenheim, Loreto Moya, Ignacio Mancilla, Catalina Bize and Camila Cuesta

Technical Director:

Matías Segura

Voices:

Nelson Brodt, Almendra Swinburn

Production:

Loreto Moya

Animations:

Teatro Milagros ( actualmente Teatro y su Doble, Promocine)

Director of photography:

Arnaldo Rodríguez

Animation supervision:

Nicolás Bórquez.

Biographies:

Aline Kuppenheim

With an extensive career in film, television, and theater, this actress, theater director, illustrator, and visual artist has turned her career to the stage for more than a decade. In 2005 she founded Teatro y su Doble (Ex Milagros), with which she has developed touching plays with puppets whose content is aimed at children and adults, with complex puppets made by the actress herself and her team. She has also had leading roles in films (Machuca, Una mujer fantástica) and in outstanding television series, such as Ecos del desierto, Prófugos and Bala loca.


Paola Giannini

Chilean actress who has done outstanding work in theater, film, and television. In 2005 she founded the company Teatro Milagros with the actress Aline Kuppenheim with whom she shares direction in On a Tightrope. Currently, she continues to develop as an actress and also as a theater director in her new company La Mili with her first paper theater work, El Niño Estrella.


Teatro y su Doble

It was created in 2005 as Teatro Milagros: a space of experimentation and search for new languages and diverse theatrical tools, where the figure of the doll was gaining more and more strength. In its plays, the actors-manipulators are at the service of the theatrical object, managing to transmit the text and awaken emotions through the illusion of life of the dolls, and the willingness of the spectator to surrender to a subjective look. The company has already staged other outstanding plays, such as Pedro y el lobo, Sobre la cuerda floja, Feos and El hámster del presidente, the latter three also co-productions of Fundación Teatro a Mil.


Mike Kenny

Mike Kenny grew up in England in a working class family. He quickly discovered in theater a powerful tool to go further, he launched into playwriting not only for ordinary children, but also for children wounded by life, as he describes them, children who are blind, deaf or disabled, incorporating sensory elements for them in his shows. Since then he has written more than 50 plays becoming one of England's most important and award-winning playwrights. His plays are performed in Great Britain and around the world.


Premios:

2011 - Premio Fondart del Consejo de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile

Creación del Montaje


2012 - Premio ATINA

Mejor Espectáculo Extranjero en el marco del Ciclo de Teatro Chileno en Teatro Sarmientos de Buenos Aires.


Previous dates:

2024

Retrospectiva de sus tres obras incluyendo Sobre la cuerda floja en Teatro Mori Bellavista en el marco del Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil


2024

Duoc Viña del Mar, Chile - La Ligua, Chile


2018

Ciclo de Teatro y su Doble en Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil en Antofagasta e Iquique, Chile


2018

Festival Tecnópolis de Buenos Aires, Argentina


2018

Teatro Municipal de Chillán, Chile


2018

Fittich, Chiloé, Isla Quehui, Chonchi y Castro, Chile


2017

Ciclo de Teatro y su Doble en Teatro Nacional Chileno. Sala Antonio Varas, Chile


2017

Festival Internacional de Títeres de Valdivia, Chile


2017

Festival Internacional de Teatro por Chiloé Profundo Fitich 16 en Chonchi e Isla Quehui, Chile


2016

Teatro Británico de Lima, Perú


2015

Taipéi Arts Festival, Taiwán


2014

Gira por Bretaña Teatros de Douai, Arras, Saint-Brieuc, Lorient y Rennes en Francia


2014

Funciones en Valladolid, Zamora, Burgos, Miranda de Ebros y Segovia en el marco del Festival Titirimundi en Segovia, España.


2014

Gira Fundación Teatro a Mil: Chile celebra del Consejo de la Culura San Antonio, San Felipe y Rancagua, Chile


2013

Théâtre de la Ville de París, Francia


2013

Temporada en Teatro UC, Santiago


2012

Famfest, Centro Cultural GAM, Santiago, Chile


2012

Temporada Teatro Mori Bellavista, Santiago, Chile


2012

Teatro Sarmiento de Buenos Aires (Argentina) en el marco del Ciclo Teatro Chileno Contemporáneo (Fitam)


2012

Estreno en Festival Teatro a Mil en el Centro Cultural de San Joaquín y Espacio Matta de La Granja, enero.


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