Puppets are once again the protagonists of the Alameda Theater program this week with Las Cottonthe attractive proposal of the company Anita Maravillas, awarded in 2021 with the Prize for Best Puppet Show at FETEN (European Fair of Performing Arts for Boys and Girls) and that can be seen this Saturday the 5th in two family functions (12:30 and 6:00 p.m.). h).
Thus, as a preview of the celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8), the show focuses on the labor struggle carried out by women who worked in the textile industry at the beginning of the 20th century, bringing together the most small current issues such as the arrival of industrialization, the exodus to the cities or the search for new opportunities. In this way, the Basque company creates an imaginary appeal, an aesthetic envelope and suitable codes for the little ones to delve into this social history by following the adventures of the Cotton family who, in the midst of the industrial revolution, leave their town to go to the city in search of a life with less straits. There, her mother and her two daughters will encounter the giant concrete factory and will have to learn to live fighting against unknown dangers.
The roofs, the lights of the city, the fabrics, the threads, the factory machines… surround this show recommended for ages 6 and up in which these puppets extol the example of those women who knew how to recognize that only together could they achieve certain worthy lives.
Specialized in puppets and marionettes, and with its own puppet construction workshop, the Anita Maravillas company was founded in 2005 by Miren Larrea and Valentina Raposo in Barcelona, from where they moved their production center to the Basque Country. There they have developed their career with nearly a dozen productions for both adult and family audiences.
Last performances of ‘The Theater and the School/Family’
The Alameda Theater lines up with Las Cotton the final stretch of the 31st cycle ‘The Theater and the School/Family’, which has spent more than three decades bringing the little ones closer to fun and interesting proposals that address current and necessary topics, without forgetting great classics of literature and art references and of music. Specifically, this edition has a total of 65 dance, theater, circus, mime and puppet performances by 17 leading companies on the national and international children’s scene. This is the case of the prestigious Canadian company Le Carrousel, by Suzanne Lebeau, considered one of the pioneers of theater for children, which will present this March A moon between two houses (family functions on the 12th, at 12:30 and 6:00 p.m.); followed by Teatro de Poniente, with Don Quixote, the secret history (family functions on the 19th, at 12:30 and 6:00 p.m.); and the Belgian Zonzo Compagnie, which will close this cycle with Thelonious (family function on the 25th, at 6:00 p.m.).
31 cycle ‘Theatre and the School/Family’
Las Cotton, from Anita Maravillas (Basque Country)
School functions: March 4 (10 and 12 noon)
Family functions: March 5 (12:30 and 6:00 p.m.)
From 6 years
A moon between two houses, from The Carousel (Canada)
School functions: March 11 (10 and 12 noon)
Family functions: March 12 (12:30 and 6:00 p.m.)
From 3 to 6 years
Don Quixote, the secret history, from Westeros Theater (Castile and Leon)
School functions: March 18 (10 and 12 noon)
Family functions: March 19 (12:30 and 6:00 p.m.)
from 10 years
Thelonious, from Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium)
School functions: March 25 (10 and 12 noon)
Family function: March 25 (6 pm)
from 8 years
school functions
Reservation telephone numbers: 955 474 494/89
Price: €4 (teachers free)
family functions
Price: Adults €7 / Boys and girls €4 (20% discount for people over 65 and groups of 5 people or more)
Ticket sales for family functions:
– Advance sale at the Lope de Vega Theater box office and online at https://bit.ly/2JbcMML
– Sale at the Alameda Theater from one hour before the performance (if advance sales are not sold out)
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