Puppet theater
SOBRE LA CUERDA FLOJA
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.
Press quotes:
Video:
Images:
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.