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REFERENCE : MTM.2023.0269.0233

• OBJECT_HEIGHT : 1500 mm ( 4'11" in )
• OBJECT_WIDTH : 480 mm ( 1'6" in )
• OBJECT_LENGTH : 430 mm ( 1'4" in )
• OBJECT_WEIGHT : 7370 g ( 16.25 lb )

• OBJECT_REF : MTM.2023.0269.0233
• OBJECT_NAME_EN : Manuel, Tiago, Cátia, Sónia, Abnegilde, Sucresonte
• EVENT_NAME_EN : the Gate
• OBJECT_TYPOLOGY_EN : puppet / direct manipulation / mixed technique
• OBJECT_DATE : 2023
• OBJECT_STORAGE_REF :

OBJECT_MATERIAL_EN :

body/volume | iron, wood
head | paper dough
hands | wood
paint | acrylic paint
joints | nylon tape, magnet

OBJECT_ARTISTS_EN :

• direction | Filipa Mesquita
• art direction | enVide neFelibata
• creation | enVide neFelibata

OBJECT_DESCRIPTION_EN :

The structure that supports the puppets has a set of wheels that allow them to move around the stage, but by pulling a small trigger, the structure lowers, giving the impression that the puppet is sitting at the table, which is a central element of the scenography.

During the performance, the puppet moves around in a shadowy position, allied to the projected shadow of the manipulator, who uses the faces to enlarge or reduce them and intensify the dramatic charge of the show.

The puppet's head has a partially defined face, while the rest of the skull is demarcated by a metal structure. This stems from the choice to only give the audience an impression of part of the character, leaving the rest as if in an embryonic state of creation. This decision is related to the idea that in the show these characters are incomplete, in particular this character who changes his name according to the scenes, interconnecting in the ever-present intention of continuing a journey whose end is uncertain. The figure's head is manipulated together with her bust, which is also structured on a metal base, allowing the transparencies and voids to be seen, leaving only the hands and arms, also in a visible wooden structure. The hands came from piano keys, from a destroyed piano that was reused.

The puppet has a strong magnet in its neck that allows its head to be connected to the body, with only the arms hanging down, so that the manipulator can leave the puppet in a static position, but alive and listening or even sculptural. This same magnet allows the puppet's head to be removed and manipulated independently of the body.

OBJECT_CONTEXT_EN :

This show is based on a book written in the dialog between the actress-puppeteer and the writer, and immediately after its creation the decision was taken to bring it to the stage.

There is a realistic relationship here with the fact that the puppets are drinking tea inside a house where all this movement and action is an emotional symbolism that invades the personalities themselves and is contagious in the plastic choices of the scenography and puppets that thus have the raw material totally in sight of the spectator, indicating this metaphorical sense.

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