The rosemary flower
Presentation
In this show we want to return to the essence of theatre: an actor and a story. The actor is a puppeteer, who travels around the world with his portable stage carried on his back, as if it were a backpack. The story, one of the most beautiful fables of Catalan folklore: The rosemary flower, in the version collected by priest Antoni Maria Alcover.
“The rosemary flower” is a tribute to the history of glove puppets and Catalan folktales. The show is based on the desire to recover the old portable puppet stages that a single puppeteer carried, and traveled through the villages (on foot!) telling fables with his puppets.
This tradition was very popular in China, but it was also very popular in Europe, and was brilliantly revived by the American puppeteer Bruce Schwartz in the 1980s. We have made the Catalan version of it, telling the fable “La flor romanial”, and with traditional music from the Balearic Islands (based on the traditional Ibizan repertoire of country dance and bagpipes, with flute, drum, bimbau, castanets, sea horn and xeremia).
- All audiences
- 55 minuts
Artistic Team
Original Tale
Antoni Maria Alcover, from Balearic folklore
Direction and dramaturgy
Marc Hervàs
Production
Clara Dalmau
Assistant Director
Mariona Tuset
Interpreter
Jordi Hervàs
Music
Josep Cardona Serapio
(Associació Cultural Colla de Vila, Eivissa)
Puppets
Martí Doy
Scenography
Marc Hervàs and Carles Solé
(Indumentària per a l’espectacle)
Photography
Dani Querol
Interpreter
Technical Ryder
Duration of the show - 55 minutes
Set up - 30 minutes
Set down - 30 minutes
Light
A cool shade under the trees
Sound
Two speakers
És una producció de Ca l’Ubú, SL, amb la col·laboració de l’Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals.
