A Tarumba - Teatro de Marionetas

“Curtas de papel, osso e fel” [Paper, Bone and Bile Short Stories] draws inspiration from several authors, such as Edward Gorey, Mário-Henrique Leiria and Max Aub, to build a narrative with countless readings of unusual events. This play is about surreal or bizarre situations that can completely change one’s life around. Histories and tinyn stories lost in songs, books and operas, or inspired by everyday life. Past and future merging. A lyrical reflexion with the occasional black humour. Brief visual narratives depicting isolation and humanity, and deeply touching our unconscious. A whiff, a hanging point between two worlds: that of humans and that of matter.

The Tarumba — Teatro de Marionetas was established in 1993, aiming at developing work of great technical and artistic quality, and continuously innovating puppet theatre in Portugal. Every year, the company programmes and produces FIMFA Lx – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms. Since 1993, it staged plays by authors such as Christopher Marlowe, Federico García Lorca, William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht, among others. Since it was founded, A Tarumba carries out experimental workshops on the arts of puppets and animated forms both at home and abroad, specifically targeting educators, performing arts professionals or children.