Taraneya theater

TARANEYA Theatre was created in 1.981 in Spain. Its director is Jesús Benedicto Dumall (Toy).

We have produced more than 20 different shows with a variety of technics such the glove puppets, marionettes, rod puppets, and even the sophisticate japanesse Kuruma-Ningyo whose master Ruigi Nishikawa had teached us.

In 1.987 we made the coproduction Don Quijote with the swedish Marionettheater of Stockholm , regie by Michael Meschke.

We have study with many masters of puppetry like Athanas Ilkov from Bulgaria and U Pan Aye from Myanmar. But we have learned much more from the public…

Since 1.995 we organize the programme Puppets on the road, in which have been performing more than 80 puppetthatre troups from all around the world.
Our international activity is one of the most important. We have been performing in many countries like Sweden, Bulgaria, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, México, Equator, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Myanmar, …

Our show called The Globetrotter has got the third price in the International Puppettheatre Festival in Békèscsaba (Hungary )

In the last ten years we have developed a great work with puppet masters in South-East Asia. As a result of this work we set up de exhibition TARANEYA COLLECTION , South-east Asian Puppets , with more than 200 puppets made by big puppet masters in each country.

The globetrotter

Technique: Puppet umbrella, glove
Audience: Family
Space stage: Mouthpiece of five meters, depth of four meters and height of three meters. Outdoors or indoors.
Duration: 55 minutes
Music: whistled and tambourine, flute, oboe, etc..
Puppeteer: Toy Benedicto
Written and directed by Toy Benedicto
Synopsis: Entertainment consists of several short plays counted by a puppeteer who has been around the world.

Third Prize at the International Festival Bekescsaba, Hungary.

Artistic memory

This is a show where raw communication with the public equally regardless of age.

The main character is, as its name suggests, a kindly-looking wanderer in a long coat which one calculates the Moon can be found.

The originality of staging using an umbrella as the main element, the songs performed live with different instruments for the companion of globetrotting and a text composed of blind romance and unusual limericks make connecting with the audience from the first verse. ..

... How exciting ...... are the first moments of a play! ......... Do not you think? .....

The tenderness is mixed with the dramatic tension of the most classic games titiritescos.

In adults-only version includes a theatrical short concerning the war ... "Yugoslavia" and one made with the technique of tongue.

This show has been featured in several international festivals in Belgium, Budapest, and Nyirbator Bekescsaba (Hungary), Perugia, Udine, Genoa, Naples (Italy), Bangkok (Thailand), Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Hermosillo, Navojoa, Nogales (State Sonora), Mexico City (Mexico), Quito and Ambato (Ecuador) and others in the Spanish state.

This show has been translated into English, Italian, Thai and Catalan, interpreted at each site in your language.

Synopsis

A character continuous journey through life comes with its accompanying musician. Your business card is a short five-minute theatrical which recites a limerick, or short poem meaningless.

"There was a friendly puppet Aragon
That everyone was fascinated with his umbrella and hat
When he was about to open his heart
He thought best left for another time
That kind and poor Puppeteer "

It is obviously staging the real visual poem using two umbrellas.

Then hear the story of D. Santander, who was married to his wife ... that tells a story of separation humorous.

After witnessing the persecution of the rabbit by the coyote, short of pure theatrical glove puppet.

Finally the puppeteer decides globetrotter has a wedding. This Wedding Louse and the Flea, which as everyone knows, ends badly ....

We .... flour, wine, who sing and dance who ... godmother came and ate the godfather ...

The Iberian donkey

Technical puppet hanger (pupillary) and glove
Toy puppeteers Benedict and Teresa Sesé
Duration: 50 minutes.
Show for family audiences indoors or outdoors.
Mounting 90 minutes.
Need stage.

This show has participated in international festivals such as Sinaloa (Mexico, 2002) and Quito (Ecuador, 2003)

Synopsis :

Stories are narrated here donkey. All are drawn from popular culture, which, as its name suggests, belongs to the people.

The first is the story of a father, a son and a donkey. The three are walking to the market. Along the way they appear a series of clever characters who criticize. The father, son and the donkey are changing their behavior according to the reviews they receive until, finding himself criticized in any of your options, decide to ignore anyone.

Another is the story of a peasant who goes with his donkey at the request of his wife to buy a jacket on the market. Once in the market all the money is spent in the pub drunk and has to return home empty and where he clearly expected punishment. For the fever decides to leave his old jacket over the donkey, who walks a few feet before him. At night, by a gesture from the donkey, donkey jacket falls and see the drunken amazed at his luck thinking he has found a new jacket that delivers him from punishment. Again, hangs in the meek, and again, arriving home, the animal throws it back. This time, when he sees the farmer decides to throw into the river thinking that jacket is too much coat.

All these stories are simply folktales we can find, at least referenced, in the classical literature of each country. In fact the first one we find in part on Count Lucanor, but also at the same time, a Senegalese folk tale ... And so with the rest, as we see in the Aragonese ballads.