POEMES VISUALS | Mitmo 2022 | April 9 | Mollet del Vallès

15a edició Mostra Internacional de Titelles de Mollet del Vallès (MITMO)

9 d’abril
22.00 hores

Poemes Visuals (Visual Poems) is a charming show, filling every corner of the stage with an unusual virtuosity, the result of many years of work. On stage a series of simple letters come to life but thanks to great mastery and handling these convert gestures into verse and verse into emotion.

The show is inspired in the magic of the poems of Catalan poet Joan Brossa, borrowing from the magnetism of Brossa’s alphabet, a game of letters with which the poet illustrates his visual poetics.

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Mercat Vell

Plaça de Prat de la Riba, 6

08100 Mollet del Vallès

Barcelona

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In the year 1990, Jordi Bertran and his collaborators began the creation of a show inspired by the world of the poet Joan Brossa.
With just some polystyrene dots, lines, and foam letters, they managed to create a spectacle that continues to captivate audiences on all five continents to this day.
Thirty years later, Bertran revisits those alphabet points to create this new stage proposal. After several years of research, the veteran puppeteer presents a series of stories that make up the show “Power Point” (The Power of the Point).
A journey through a creative world inhabited by characters with great theatricality, amusing and contradictory, full of tenderness and underlying conflicts.

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One day, my puppetry teacher said to me, “Jordi, I am old now, soon I will depart. But before I go, I would like to leave you my latest creation, with one condition. You must incorporate it into your repertoire and perform it for your audience, so my spirit will live on.”

“It will be a great honor for me,” I replied.

And that’s how my puppetry teacher showed me his final show. It consisted of four very simple stories, created with just two hands, an old guitar, and some white dots.

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1ª NO CLINC CLINC.

Two characters, each crafted with two hands and two dots, set out to play a blues piece on a guitar. After encountering some coordination issues, they decide to switch to classical music, successfully producing a harmonious sound. However, as they reach the end of their performance, they lose the guitar strings.

From that point on, they must coordinate and work together as a team to search for the lost strings.

2ª METAMORPHOSIS

The second story unfolds from a question: What would happen if, one evening, Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, were to escape from the room where his family has confined him?

3ª THE DREAM OF MR ÉRIK

Erik is a romantic dreamer with a deep fascination for the Earth’s satellite. In vain, he tries to reach it with his hand or by climbing a ladder. One evening, while playing the piano, he falls asleep.

In his dream, he sees his head separating from his body and embarking on a journey to the Moon. After their encounter, they decide to exchange roles. Mr. Erik will shine in the night sky, and the Moon will join Erik’s body to continue creating music with the piano.

At that moment, the puppeteer’s voice is heard saying: “If you want to reach the Moon, don’t use a ladder. Dream!”

4ª THE TRAMPOLINIST

New four-handed version of the legendary foam character from Jordi Bertran’s company.

A fun story that narrates the misadventures of a trampoline jumper attempting to leap into a basin of water to the rhythm of an imaginary guitarist’s guitar, with everything going wrong.

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