“Como si fuera jugando” (Like playing)

“Como si fuera jugando” (Like playing)

“Como si fuera jugando”
(Like playing)
Dossier 2015
“COMO SI FUERA JUGANDO (LIKE PLAYING) speaks of play as a part of life,
of imagining positive things and of making the world a better place; basically
these things that all human beings are born with”.
Anselmo Navarro, performer and director.
About the play
About the the mise en scene
“COMO SI FUERA JUGANDO
(LIKE PLAYING) was created by
the maestro Quique Acuña in
1985 and it was the last play he
directed in Costa Rica. Thirty
years later the play is still
relevant to the reality of the
world
t o d a y,
where
inventiveness and technology
have become, paradoxically,
friend and foe of our society and
the planet.
LIKE PLAYING is a fable that is narrated in
forms and colors, a poem that is told with
music, a dream that is shared like a myriad of
hands that come together to play with music.
Because when puppets need to say nice things,
very nice things, they do it like playing.
This is a seemingly naive show, as if it was a
simple tale. It seeks to contrast through poetic
images the wishes and dreams of the workers
with the dominant, perverse and humiliating
conducts of power.
The play seeks to show that knowledge can
produce change and that technology requires
ethics for its correct utilization. It intends to
provoke aesthetic and amusing sensations
while at the same time it asks its young
spectators to form opinions and reflections.
It is based on the fact that puppeteer language
is a synthesis of movement, visual artistry, color
and specially music. It is meant for all
audiences but is fundamentally a family show.
Techniques
The story is told without words using diverse
puppet theater techniques and uses, to achieve
this, two scenic areas: the space of the factory
and the space of wishes and dreams.
The musical environment
The music has an important semantic value
because it creates environments, effects and
thematic phrases that are incorporated as part
of the objects’ language. It also provides the
rhythm that allows the choreography of
movements. In essence, the puppets move as
if dancing.
The music travels from the synthesizer sounds
of Herbie Hancock to the piano harmonies of
the Costa Rican composer Manuel Obregón.
About MTM Teatro de Muñecos
MTM Teatro de Muñecos was founded in
1968 in Costa Rica by Juan Enrique
(Quique) Acuña (1915-1988), an
Argentinean master puppeteer, poet, and
playwright whose work revolutionized Costa
Rican puppetry. Since then, MTM has been
an independent theatrical organization
dedicated to promoting puppet theater
through performance and investigation with
an aesthetic oriented towards provoking a
critical reflection on current reality from the
audience. Throughout more than 40 years
of existence, MTM has thrived in diverse
theatrical spheres: performances for
children and adults; advanced workshops
for training and professional specialization;
basic courses for promoting the art of
puppetry; tours throughout the country;
performances at national and international
festivals; as well as an active participation in
Costa Rica’s cultural life.
Since 1973 the group has participated in a
great number of international tours such as
the following: the I Festival de Teatro of
Manizales, Colombia (1973); the Encuentro
Internacional de Teatro of Puerto Rico
(1979); the Campaña Nacional de
Alfabetización of Nicaragua (1980); the III
Encuentro Internacional de Títeres of
Mexico (1980); the VII Festival Internacional
de Títeres of Mexico (1984); various puppet
festivals in the winter circuit in Spain (1987);
the International Festival of Puppets of
America in Atlanta, USA (1989); the
Semana Mundial de las Marionetas in
Canadá (1990); the II Bienal de Títeres of
Puerto Rico (1992); the Festival
Internacional of Jazz in New Orleans, USA
(1997); the VI Bienal de Títeres of Puerto
Rico (2000), the Festival Internacional de
teatro infantil in El Salvador (2002); the
Festival Puppets Up in Canadá (2005);
various winter festivals in Spain (2007); the
Festival Ruquita Velazco of Colombia
(2008); the Festival Internacional de Teatro
of Bogotá (2012); the FIT of Cádiz and
Madrid (2013); and the Festival Mirada in
Brazil (2014).
Production and acting credits:
Title: COMO SI FUERA JUGANDO
(LIKE PLAYING)
Year: 2015 - Recreation from the
original (1985) by Quique Acuña
Country: Costa Rica
2015 Director: Anselmo Navarro
Creation and construction: MTM
Teatro de Muñecos
Running time: 50 minutos
Audience: all / family show
Music: various authors
Language: wordless
Performers: Anselmo Navarro, Rosalia
Camacho, Alvaro Mata, Giovanni Bacco,
Berny Abarca
Genre: Puppet theater
Techniques: Marottes, black theater,
live-hands and marionette.
Design: Alvaro Mata
Sewing: Carmen Carvajal
Production: MTM Teatro de Muñecos
Executive production and booking:
Berny Abarca, productor
[email protected]/
+(506) 83118321
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