RECOMMENDED +6 YEARS
Logroño, La Rioja, España
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.
A MANO Has Been Featured At:
2023: Ricca Ricca Festa, Okinawa (JP); 2019: Kitoks Festival (LT), Cultura Nova (NL), Meli Melo (FR); 2018: Showbox (NO), Tandarica Puppet Fest (RO), Kinder Kinder (DE), Ricca Ricca Festa, Okinawa (JP); 2017: Festival Decouvertes (FR), Ottawa Children’s Festival (CA), Macao Arts Festival (MO), SHCAT (Shanghai, CN), Beijing’s National Theatre (CN); 2016: Imaginale Festival (DE), Krokus Festival (BE), Spring Festival (DK); 2015: Festival Starke Stuke (DE), Imaginate Festival (UK), Ilt Festival (DK), Rotondes Theatre (LU), Suwon Puppet Festival (KR), Boing Festival (UK), Festival Ziguzajg (MT), Festival Marionnettissimo (FR); 2014: Festival Panoptikum (DE), Belfast Children’s Festival (IE), Festival Europa Joven (MX), Valise International Theatre Festival (PL), Dublin Theatre Festival (IE), Goyang Lake Park Festival (KR), Big Break Festival (RU), Festival Les Coups de Théâtre (CA); 2013: Hamedan Children’s Festival (IR), FETEN Festival (ES).
“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).
