Marionetas do Porto

Dear imagination, what I love most about you is that you do not forgive.
— André Breton

Jardim Imaginário [Imaginary Gardener] is a new creation of Marionetas do Porto, dedicated to adults in an attempt to transport them to different territories where they can echo concerns, thoughts, loose materials, pieces of life, in a kind of circular crown. Two actors, in an encounter between puppets, objects, words, movements, small unnameable particles, light, music and many other elements, provoking compositions and imagetic journeys. A non-linear place is created, detached from the world. Disconcerting, delirious, without known laws. A kind of living painting. Starting from the literary universe, namely from some poems from the book Sonhador Definitivo e Perpétua Insónia, an anthology of surrealist poems written in French, translated by Regina Guimarães, and a lot of experimentation linked to materials, one takes off into a dream, in flight, going underground through a universe that escapes reality. In Jardineiro Imaginário, there is a return to that continent of imagination, in the creation of images that appear automatically, transporting each body to another place. The inner and intimate theatre, persistent and endless, inhabited by an imaginary gardener, created with the artistic complicity of a multidisciplinary team. — Isabel Barros