La Mula

Manual per a éssers vius, introduces innovative visual theatre language focusing on the written word. These words that determine how we see the world, then, are the protagonists. Because writing and reading, as human techniques, encompass a series of codes of perception that are embedded in daily life. The performers’ way of playing with these codes while using colour and light as core aesthetic elements set the comic tone of the show.

Perception, the alteration thereof, and playfulness. These are the cornerstones of the work produced by Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa’s La Mula company. In 2024, their Thauma, on the theme of wonder, earned applause from many viewers and critics. Now they are back with a show designed as the second instalment of a diptych on the theme of “astonishment”, a concept, half-surprise, half-wonder, that the ancient Greeks described as the driver of knowledge.

La Mula is a theatre company that works with the visual arts, puppets and space. Understanding the stage as a space for expression, their works are shaped by a fluid approach to theatre under the direction of Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa. Puig Torres, a creator interested in the intersection between visual and performing arts, was a resident artist at the Teatre Lliure for the 23/24 season, and in 2023 co-directed Glatir, the Ateneu Popular 9 Barris’s 28^th Winter Circus, with Oriol Escursell. Martínez Costa, an actor, puppeteer, stage director and researcher who divides his time between Catalonia, France and Canada, has worked with companies such as Philippe Genty and El Conde de Torrefiel and is currently an associate artist at Plexus Polaire, a French-Norwegian company.

Artistic credits

Created by: Andreu Martínez Costa, Magda Puig Torres
Stage design and lighting design: Víctor Peralta Carriquí
Musical composition and sound design: Erol Ileri Llordella
Dramaturgy: Jorge Gallardo Altamirano, Magda Puig Torres, Andreu Martínez Costa
Performers: Andreu Martínez Costa, Magda Puig Torres, Víctor Peralta Carriquí
Construction and mechanisms: Jan Erik Skarby,Tim Lucassen
Production: Oriol Escursell
Work-life balance: Rosana Costa Navarro, Enrique Martínez Piera, Ramon Puig Soler, Teresa Torres Samsó
Distribution: Marta Riera Pi (www.lamula.org)

 

A co-production by: Figurteatret Nordland, Festival Grec, Nilak and La Mula