A Tarumba at Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières

THIS IS NOT THE GOGOL'S NOSE, BUT IT COULD BE WITH A DASH OF JACQUES PRÉVERT

A Tarumba - Teatro de Marionetas at

Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières

IN * Salle de la Citadelle (32) *

25 and 26 September 
Ceci n'est pas le Nez de Gogol, mais cela se pourrait... avec une touche de Jacques Prévert

A Tarumba - Teatro Marionetas is pleased to announce its participation at Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières (programa IN)!

Check our webpage: www.tarumba.pt

Ceci n'est pas le Nez de Gogol, mais cela se pourrait... 
avec une touche de Jacques Prévert

Salle de la Citadelle // 32

25 September (Wednesday) 

15pm / 7pm / 10pm

26 September (Thursday)

10am / 3pm / 7pm

The relevance of having a nose, of not getting one's nose out of joint, of not sticking one's nose where it does not belong, of being toffee-nosed or just being nosey! And what about Jacques Prévert? "To tell you the truth, he doesn't look like anyone."

Inspired by Gogol’s and Jacques Prévert’s worlds, A Tarumba uses objects and paper-made articulated figures to create a kitsch collage somewhere between the Eurovision Song Contest and Russia in the 1970s. A surreal performance with an excess of noses, pop-culture references and blond people in powerful positions. Absurd situations hide, in filigree, a satirical criticism of the contemporary world. A cadavre exquis of scenes played with nonsense and a bit of surreal vibe.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

- Jacques Prévert

We do not know what period this pair belongs, but it seems they are lost in time. They seem to have the power to move the world and manipulate their leaders... They use words as if they were in a game of chess and messing everything. Where are they? In an abandoned campsite or in a decadent amusement park, but with a lot of glitter and full of objects and images? Unusual and hilarious situations follow each other, between the lines we notice the references of this rotating wheel of absurd numbers. But at the end it seems to have the meaning of the world that we are living in, i.e., it doesn't make any sense. Reality has surpassed fiction. And the most important? The ability to laugh at ourselves and the possibility of reinventing ourselves.

"Luís Vieira and Rute Ribeiro have already accustomed us to the best quality. In addition to bringing artists of great quality to FIMFA, they also give us their shows. This one starts from Gogol and Prévert, in a collage of scenes, mythical characters and popular references that navigate between the Eurovision Song Contest and Russia in the 70s, always with a kitsch aesthetic. It is a kind of cadavre exquis that starts from a curious premise: the world is being dominated by blondes, from Trump to Theresa May, and Putin.”
- Miguel Branco, Time Out, 10 May 2017

“It is with articulated and very funny paper-made articulated puppets that A Tarumba makes the show This is not the Gogol's Nose, but it could be… with a dash of Jacques Prévert, a journey through the populist bestiary of contemporary politics with a touch of kitsch (...).
In this miscellany of noses, authors, quotations, Russian and French songs, there are plenty of other paper characters. From Juliette Gréco to Camões, passing by Iggy Pop, Serge Gainsbourg or Yves Montand, whose voices come from an old record player placed there, right in front of us. Let us go to this universe related to the Prévert - from Moulin Rouge, free love and freedom, which are a counterpoint to the times in which we live (...).
- Maria João Caetano, Diário de Notícias, 10 December 2016

"What all these authors have in common, in addition to talent? An enormous creative freedom, a taste for the absurd and the random, an almost surreal frequent tone, a strong poetic density.
Rute Ribeiro and Luís Vieira, which together form A Tarumba - puppets, animated forms and a grain of permanent madness and nonsense - have not resisted having these authors as a source of inspiration for a show that doesn't recreate none of their works, but which, structured in the spartan rule of the cadavre exquis, refers to them and honors them permanently, even when it is lggy Pop, Barack Obama or any other feline that takes the reins of a universe, that shamelessly and bluntly, has the Great Russia as background and it is, as it is part of contemporary general knowledge, dominated by blondes.”
- João Carneiro, Expresso - Revista E, 10 December 2016

A Tarumba - Teatro de Marionetas

Artistic direction, concept, puppets and performers: Luís Vieira, Rute Ribeiro
Adaptation and texts: Rute Ribeiro

Executive production: Daniela Matos

Photography: Alípio Padilha

Technique: Paper figures and objects

Supports and partnerships: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC

A Tarumba is sponsored by República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura | DGArtes
Acknowledgements: São Luiz Teatro Municipal
40 min. / Adults and adolescents