Call for Papers

For those interested in children's theatre, the 18th International Children’s Theatre Festival in Subotica, Servia is doing a call for papers here, on the following subjects:

• Postmodernism and children's theatre.
• Puppet theatre as a contemporary narrative tool.
• The problem of contemporary language in theatre arts for children.
• Direct expression or electronic transmission?
• Criticism of the exploited models as against schematic thinking.
• The wisdom contained in the message for children.

If anyone is interested you've got until the end of this weekend to send applications.

SILVAE, by João Queiroz

A drawing/painting exhibition at Culturgest, Lisbon.
The most wonderful, painfully strong landscapes I have seen in a long, long time. For those who might be interested in getting lost in an idea of God.

Getting lost on SILVAE, by João Queiroz

A night look on SILVAE, by João Queiroz

The Bird Tower

Studies in towers - for a Babel of books

Christmas givings - a reading pillow

Exposição das Máquinas de Cena d' O Bando, Palmela

Up the hill and down the mound, scenic contraptions populate O Bando's land in Palmela. Ravished by wind, water and earth, they are the memory of the movement they once held. Beautiful to climb, while hearing the testimony of actors, director, scenographer and theatre critics.

The last of Red's: the forest.

Red's

Grandma's

Stain in the wall

Working summer II

Working summer

Family history

Rock monster

Ogre upper body

30's costume in the making

Madeira also

Madeira

Opera Bufa by O Bando

Two storylines: one that tells us of Dulcineia, the bride of D. Quixote, who travels the world looking for him, where the actors/dancers choreograph a cacophony of movements and the singers never touch the stage floor. The other, a story of people who can’t talk, puppets who are never left alone but for the few inter-scene pauses. The two stories interlace until D. Quixote’s found and Dulcineia is brought back to her hospital home. A play which takes inspiration from a mental hospital but is more lucid than most theatre I've seen on Lisbon's stages for a long while...

Cinderela at Montemor, Alentejo

Marionetas do Porto presented Cinderela at Montemor-o-Novo's modernist cine-theatre Curvo Semedo. This is a wonderfully magical universe, three actors, one of them a music player, relate to the puppets as friends, co-authors. Truly one of the most puppet theatre companies in Portugal. No one will ever forget the frantic Seven Dwarfs jumping on Cinderela's tummy! My sincere congrats to the Associação Alma d’Arame for their warm welcome.

Agathe Christie's 30's

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