COMPANY BASED IN

Logroño, La Rioja, España

DURATION

45 mns

A Mano (By Hand) is a story told with clay, the story of a small character with a great desire to escape from a shop window and its inhabitants.

It is a love story, a story about small failures, a potter’s wheel, a cup that breathes, two people with great enthusiasm, a tiny pottery workshop and four hands that play.

Award For Exceptional And Refined Mastery In Puppetry (Impuls Festival, Romania, 2015)
Best Show (Festival Kuss, Marburg, Germany 2015)
Best Interpretation (Festival Valise, Poland, 2014)
Best Show by the Autonomies Jury (Fira Titelles Lleida, 2013)
Best Small Format Show (FETEN Festival, Spain, 2013)
Best Show by the Audience Jury (Festival Encinart, Spain, 2012)

“The universal message carried in the simple and loving human interaction of touching and holding hands speaks to all ages at different levels. This is a remarkable miniature fantasy that beautifully reflects real life”

Irene Brown | Edinburgh Guide

“There’s no spoken text in A Mano. Instead, it’s the fingers that do the talking in this beguilingly quaint production by El Patio Teatro (Spain). Wonderfully flexible fingers (…) who find humour and pathos in a deftly-nuanced quest for love, freedom, happiness.”
Mary Brennan | The Herald

AUTHORSHIP AND DIRECTION: El Patio Teatro / PERFORMERS: Izaskun Fernández and Julián Sáenz López / SCRIPT AND DRAMATURGY: El Patio Teatro / LIGHTING DESIGN: El Patio Teatro / SET DESIGN: El Patio Teatro / LIGHTING AND SOUND ENGINEER: Diego Solloa / PHOTOGRAPHY: Clara Larrea / GRAPHIC DESIGN: Diego Solloa / DISTRIBUTION: Ana Sala (IKEBANAH ARTES ESCÉNICAS).